Assistant Manager / Enrollment Specialist - Child Care Center

Volunteers of America Upstate NY•City of Rochester, NY

1d•$58,000 - $60,000•Onsite

About The Position

Under the direction of the Vice President of Services for Children and Families, the Child Care Center Manager is responsible for the overall administration, coordination, and evaluation of the childcare programs and its enrollment. this role includes collaborating with the VP of Children and Family Services on overseeing daily operations, ensuring compliance with regulations, managing staff, and developing strategic plans to enhance program quality and increase enrollment. The manager will work closely with families, staff, and the community to provide a safe, nurturing, and educational environment for children.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Education with a concentration in Child Development or Early Childhood
Thorough understanding of child care center operations
Strong organizational, communication, computer, and interpersonal skills
Ability to coordinate center functions
Ability to implement policy and procedures
Knowledge and implementation of OCFS child care guidelines and state licensing
Comprehensive knowledge and proven success of developing and leading childcare programs for children based on developmentally appropriate practices
Accepts and respects differences in children, parents, and coworkers
Excellent organizational, planning, problem-solving, and oral and written communication skills; and an aptitude for interacting with and motivating people.
Ability to manage a budget
Minimum Five years experience as a classroom teacher of young children
Three to five successful years of experience managing childcare facilities
Performing the duties of this job requires talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas using the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
The employee must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
The employee is subject to inside environmental conditions: protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
The employee has direct responsibility/supervision of other staff.

Responsibilities

Oversee the day-to-day functions of the child care program.
Develop and implement policies and procedures for the operation of the childcare program.
Oversee the maintenance of files according to and records related to OCFS requirements
Maintain open, consistent and effective communication with parents, providing parent education training, assistance and support as needed.
Provide reliable, accurate and timely information about the child care center to interested parties.
Collaborates with the VP of Children and Family Services to attain and maintain membership for accreditation from related early childhood education governing bodies
Perform other functions that may be assigned by the Administration and/or supervisor
Attend professional development seminars to maintain an understanding of the current best practices of curriculum and administrative functions of child development programs
Articulate the center’s mission to employees and other stakeholders
Use appropriate and effective techniques to encourage adherence to VOA childcare attendance policies
Represent the center in a professional, courteous, and positive manner at all times
Promote a positive, caring climate for learning for staff, students, and parents.
Deal sensitively and fairly with persons from opportunity gaps and diverse cultural backgrounds
Communicate effectively with staff, students, and their families.
Coordinate all enrollment, recruitment, selection and attendance processes for daycare. Including recruitment processes, parent follow-up, data entry, tracking, etc.
Serve as the point of contact for community partnerships for child care and its registration services, using the Procare database and any other database systems as needed.
Arrange for the collection of data as needed to ensure compliance with pertinent legislation, regulations, and laws; ensure timely and accurate reporting of data to local and state authorities.
Collect and submit data for evaluating, planning, and improvement of services to the VP of Children and Family Services.
Maintain professional boundaries and confidentiality.