Childcare Manager- Excel Center Decatur

Young Learners Childcare Manager

This is a full-time M-F position paying $19 / hr. and includes full benefits (below) :

The Young Learners Childcare Center (YLCC) is designed to provide free, temporary, short-term childcare for the students of the Excel Center until regular childcare is located. The YLCC is available when students are studying on-site or are in class, and will serve children up to age 12.

The Young Learners Childcare Manager ensures the safe and caring management of all the children entrusted to the center, as well as the part-time staff, and other qualified participants. Duties involve hiring, training, coaching, and assisting with monitoring children in the center, setting schedules, and developing learning opportunities for the children while in our care. Keeps parents informed of policies and procedures at the center as well as provides effective resolution for any conflicts that should arise.

Example Duties and Activities

• Creates curriculum, lesson plans, schedules, planned outings, and field trips.
• Steps in to facilitate hands-on interactive learning experiences working with students directly as needed.
• Completes daily safety audits to ensure health and safety compliance guidelines. Creates and maintains a task list to achieve timely completion of audit items.
• Oversees the registration of students.
• Tracks, documents, and ensures accuracy of center's files : student attendance, snack usage, budget, ages, families served, etc.
• Orders and maintains all supplies for location.
• Maintains regular communication with parents regarding services, enrollment, scheduling or routine changes, and special events for the children. Creates a monthly newsletter for parents.
• Coaches parents on how to create learning opportunities at home.
• Participates in regular Excel Center team meetings.
• Ensures all staff members have appropriate tools to effectively perform their duties, including updated training manuals, reference guides, and best practices procedures. Provides in-service training for team members in areas such as new policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Evaluates the performance of staff members and recommends indicated action.
• Tracks attendant's documents, attendance, and training.
• Develops personal professional / performance goals and action plans to reach goals. Reflects on prior goals and makes adjustments to professional practice and goals.
• Works directly with the school director to develop and implement school-wide goals around graduation outcomes, enrollment needs, student achievement, retention, etc.
• Sets and maintains a high-performance culture for staff and students.
• Participates in student recruitment, enrollment, and outreach efforts.

Required Competencies

Preferred Competencies

Other Requirements

Benefits :

Goodwill strongly believes it is essential to raise education attainment levels in Indiana. Not only are the lifetime earnings of high school graduates significantly higher than those of dropouts, children of high school graduates are 50% less likely to drop out of high school than the children of dropouts are. Goodwill provides opportunities for adults (The Excel Center) and youth (Indianapolis Metropolitan High School).

The Excel Center is operated by Goodwill Education Initiatives, Inc., a not-for-profit organization formed by Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana.

Recognizing that nearly a half million working-age Hoosiers lack a high school diploma, Goodwill opened The Excel Center for adults in 2010. The Excel Center is a tuition-free public high school for adults offering an Indiana Core 40 high school diploma.

Mission and Values

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana is an EEO Employer / Vet / Disabled.