Job Description
Job Description
After School Site Supervisor
Monday - Friday, 40 hours a week
$47,000-$50,000
Full Benefits Package
Definition and Primary Objective : Responsible for development and daily operations of after school programming that meets child care best practice and licensing standards. This position is responsible for leading a team of staff at one school-based site, providing direct services to students (counted in ratio), creating a responsive and safe environment, and implementing a developmentally appropriate curriculum tailored towards individual children and the overall program. This includes administering developmental assessments, managing case files, overseeing client accounts, managing enrollment and client progress. As a part of the Early Childhood and School Age team this position is also responsible for communicating with vendors and providing direct customer service to families.
Childcare Licensing Responsibilities
- Identified as childcare administrator on license as required by Ohio Department of Children and Youth.
- Partners with School Age Care and Enrichment Manager who is responsible for creating and implementing agencywide practices and policies that comply with licensing and SUTQ regulations.
- Ensures compliance to licensing and SUTQ standards during daily program operation.
Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements :
Bachelors degree in in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or related field from an accredited college or university preferred; minimum of a CDA, Associates degree or CPL 3 designation. Education and work experience must meet requirements for Career Pathways Level (CPL) 3 as outlined by Ohio’s Early Childhood Professional Development Network.Must be eligible to serve as an Ohio Approved Child Care Administrator, previous administrator experience a plusDirect experience in leading school age groups requiredDirect experience supervising other is a plusMust be flexible in work schedule and have strong communication and organizational skillsMust be open to new ideas and strategies in order to improve work performanceMust possess minimum technical skills including familiarity with Microsoft Windows and ability to use standard Microsoft Office applications.Primary Responsibilities :
Core Values / Personal Effectiveness
Respects and works well with people with differences of personal style, opinion and culture.Maintain positive attitude and flexibility around work schedule and responsibilities to ensure critical business needs are met.Demonstrate ability to prioritize effectively.Identify and communicate needs in order to perform job effectively.Demonstrates care and understanding for clients’ and / or customers’ experience and needs.Actively participates in required trainings / prof. development’s opportunities.Direct Client Service and Quality Effectiveness
Creates daily, weekly and monthly programming. Uses curriculum developed to meet to the social emotional and development of children.Oversees daily interactions with children, supporting and encouraging all developmental, social, and educational aspects of the children’s development within the context of the child’s family, culture, and individualized needs.Ensures completion and collection of evaluation measures and adherence to best practice and agency standards. Promotes quality within program.Supports the development and execution of age appropriate lesson plans aligned with State Standards and Accreditation Standards.Manages children’s challenging behaviors. Works with Early Care and Education Manager to identify response plan that includes suspension or removal from program.Manages emergency situations. Ensures evacuation and safety procedures are followed, to include communication with families, emergency personnel and CoStars management.Maintains a safe environment and effectively implements trauma-informed practices and strategies for promoting children’s social emotional competence.Actively participates in daily programming, counted in staff : child ratio.Provides a balance between child-initiated and teacher-initiated activities.Consistently follows the Youth Programming Quality Improvement Model. Monitors program quality targets and works with supervisor develop plan to support target achievement.Attends agency training or professional seminars / conferences as required or necessary to maintain compliance with program regulations and increase professional skill set.Administration and Fiscal Responsibility
Ensures day-to-day programming and required documentation align with childcare licensing standards and requirements set by the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, accreditation bodies, and Step Up to Quality.Recruits and registers families to participate in school age programming. Assesses child needs to ensure goodness of fit and ensures accurate and timely completion of enrollment paperwork.Manages data systems, ensures accurate and timely entry of child and family data.Complies with all regulations concerning client confidentiality in all settings.Coordinates and establishes activity calendar, completes lesson plans with best practice standards and regulatory requirements and ensure effective implementation of all plans using the YPQI program structure.Coordinates all field trips and special events.Responsible for managing enrollment targets and program census, tuition / fee collection and communicates regularly with the finance department and manager regarding program financial matters.Ensures appropriate maintenance and storage of program materials. Ensures program areas are clean at the end of programming.Internal and External Collaboration
Establishes positive relationships and communication with all families and handles parents’ concerns and complaints.Represents the agency within the community and school environments with professionalism at all times, maintains a strong customer service and public relations focus.Communicates any facility concerns immediately to school and Early Care and Education Manager.Actively collaborates with other agency programs to ensure clients’ needs are being met and to benchmark and share resource and expertise.Collaborates with school age group leads, Principal, Resource Coordinator, teachers and Mental Health Therapist co-located at school site.Participates in outreach activities to assist with promotion of services.Works with manager to appropriately accesses support areas to get the job done.Supervision
Provides direct, formal supervision to assigned staff on a weekly basis and is available for informal supervision and support as needed.Adheres to supervision standards and all practices and documentation requirements therein. Includes shadowing on a quarterly basis and documenting the observations for continuous quality improvement.Participates in recruitment and hiring of school age group leads.Serves as resource to management and supervisors with questions / concerns about staff.Supports direct staff in their daily practice as well as professional improvement and development. Provides training and instruction to assigned staff during the course of their work.Monitors required training of assigned staff to ensure they are up-to-date for certification and credentialing purposes.Models and ensures that assigned staff follow the structure of the program and model developmentally appropriate practice.Uses knowledge to influence, guide and involve staff in appropriate and effective communication techniques in interactions with families and each other.Work Environment : Exposed to a combination of office, school and mental health treatment environments. Exposed to children with behavior problems. May be exposed to shouting and clients who may be verbally and physically aggressive. May be exposed to blood or vomit and bodily fluids.
Physical Demands : The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to :
Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend and lift up to 50 pounds.