Director of Early Learning Centre

3 weeks ago


Toronto ON, Canada Child Development Institute Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Director to lead our Early Learning Centre team in providing exceptional care and education for young children. As a key member of our Child Development Institute team, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operation and administration of the Centre, ensuring a safe, healthy, and supportive environment for children, staff, and families.

Key Responsibilities
  • Ensure compliance with all regulations and legislated standards, including Ministry of Education Licensing standards, Toronto Children's Services Assessment for Quality Improvement, and College of Early Childhood Educators Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.
  • Create and nurture a safe, healthy, supportive environment for children, staff, and families, ensuring program quality through pedagogical leadership and collaboration with other CDI Childcare Centre Directors and cross-functional mental health teams.
  • Develop effective strategies to engage families and community partners, taking a diverse and flexible approach to working with families, creating communications, hosting our annual open house, providing feedback, and connecting to other resources as needed.
  • Provide robust, reflective, and responsive leadership, supporting continuous professional development opportunities for educators, inspiring and providing support to ensure high performance from staff, recruiting, hiring, training, supervising, and evaluating assigned staff within the mandate of a Collective Agreement.
  • Manage operations, ensuring the safety and financial viability of the Early Learning Centre, contributing to policies and procedure development, updates, and staff adherence, communicating with external partners and participating in professional network meetings, conferences, etc.
Requirements
  • Diploma or degree in Early Childhood Education and an Early Childhood Management-Leadership certificate would be an asset.
  • Member in good standing with the College of Early Childhood Education.
  • Experience in an early learning/childcare setting, including experience supporting or directly leading staff, programs, and communications.
  • Proven ability to provide and sustain a diverse learning environment that supports the highest program quality, equity, and inclusion for children, staff, and families.
  • Understanding and ability to maintain the confidentiality and security of client-related and agency information.
About Us

At Child Development Institute, we prioritize the mental well-being and work-life balance of our teams, acknowledging the reality of the emotionally demanding work each of us puts in every day. We strive to create a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and equitable space where creativity flourishes, offering full health and well-being benefits, flexible hours in a planned program environment, a focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing, and ongoing paid professional development opportunities and certifications.



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