Child Care Director

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Child Care Director to join our team. As the Child Care Director, you will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of our child care facility and ensuring the well-being and development of the children in our care. If you have a passion for working with children and providing a nurturing and educational environment, we would love to hear from you.

**The organization** We are a licensed home child care agency that provides high quality services in Simcoe County and Region of Peel. We believe that it is important to build opportunities among all individuals that are part of our agency. We believe its important to create opportunities for providers to become reflective, lifetime learners who continue to challenge themselves everyday. We want to ensure children have the opportunity to think, explore, learn and build strong meaningful relationships in positive environments.

**Our Vision**:

- Building positive and responsive relationships
- A strong focus on children’s social emotional, physical, creative, and cognitive development in a holistic way
- Environments in which children learn through exploration, play and inquiry
- Encouraging self-reflection, discussion, and ongoing collaboration and learning
- among educators and parents
- Engagement with families valuing their strengths, contributions and unique perspectives.
- Using pedagogical documentation to study interpret and help inform children’s learning and development
- Children’s experiences have a significant impact on the brain and learning.
- Building Opportunities strives that children enrolled should have the opportunity to reach their best potential. Programs that are reflective of strong relationships and connections with children are not only quality programs, but also ones that ensure children feel a.sense of belonging and security.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- This individual would oversee employees and home child care programs to ensure compliance and high quality services within the agency.
- Is a resource and provides training and leadership to agency team
- Has foresight to proactively identify and resolve problems about the business and ensure that business is driving forward
- Organizes schedules and initiate daily team meetings. Adds value in management meetings, always prepared and proactive with recommendations and solutions.
- Focuses on the key priorities for the agency and is able to juggle multiple tasks/projects
- Must have organizational skills to ensure deadlines are being met
- _Ensure compliance._ Adhere to all regulations and legislated standards, including Ministry of Education Licensing standards, Building Opportunities program statement implementation policy, Public Health guidelines, and College of Early Childhood Educators Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
- _Provide robust, reflective, and responsive leadership. _You will support continuous professional development opportunities for educators. You will inspire and provide support to ensure high performance from your staff. You will recruit, hire, train, supervise, and evaluate assigned staff within the mandate of a Collective Agreement. You will coordinate staff scheduling and coverage as appropriate for service delivery.
- _Manage operations. _ You will contribute to policies and procedure development, updates, and staff adherence. You will communicate with the agencies external partners and participate in professional network meetings, conferences, etc. You will monitor enrollment to ensure the site is at capacity and communicate with Simcoe County regarding subsidies, waiting lists, and statistics. You will complete serious occurrence reports as required.
- Foster positive relationships with parents and guardians through effective communication.
- Stay informed about provincial licensing requirements and ensure the daycare adheres to all regulations.

**Administrative**:

- Analyzes areas to be cost effective and puts into place processes to do so when appropriate without compromise to the customer
- Focuses on the agencies enrolment, following up on all leads/inquiries and waitlist to successful closes.
- Plans & implements the agencies Marketing plan
- Completes all required administrative tasks accurately meeting all deadlines.
- Ensuring written communications are professionally done, well presented, checked for accuracy and thoroughness & thoughts/input organized.
- Plans, manages and executes projects on time and on budget
- Completing payroll
- Applying, calculating and reconciling funding
- Working with Excel, Word and Adobe
- Is resourceful in presenting sound decisions and recommendations to the Director of Education using the available tools (power tool, CFEL operations manual, etc.)
- Applies logic, rational and objectivity in all recommendations/decisions, keeping in mind the consequences of these decisions and impact to the organization.
- Maintain accurate records and documen