Education Manager jobs in Salt Lake City, UT

Job Description

Are you passionate about working with young children and ensuring they have excellent educational opportunities? As the Early Education Program Manager, you will be able to put your passion and leadership skills to work by overseeing our Early Education program, serving children from 15 months to 5 years old. Our Early Education program is NAEYC accredited and focuses on developmentally appropriate practices.

As the content expert in early childhood education, you will implement best practices and policies that ensure quality education within our program, compliance with licensing requirements and collaboration with your peers within the Child Development Center. You will also work closely with your team of teachers and support staff, to ensure daily needs are met, and will keep your focus forward to allow for professional growth and development of your team and program.

Duties And Responsibilities

Core Duties and Responsibility:

• Lead a team of approximately 40 teachers and support staff in order to provide a quality program serving the development and educational needs of children ages 15 months to 5 years old.
• Outward facing leader and representative of the program and Neighborhood House in all community and parent interactions.
• Work with Children’s Program Associate director to ensure all licensing, safety and accreditation standards are met and all requirements by law are up to date.
• Work with Children’s Program Associate director to create and maintain systems to track outcomes, demographics, statistics, and efficient functioning of the program.
• The ability to successfully track, record and evaluate program outcome measures and tell the story of program success.
• Appropriately address parent and guardian concerns of all early education clients in a timely manner.
• Approve and track teachers’ classroom budgets.
• Conduct classroom observations and provide necessary support to help teacher achieve best instructional practice.
• Hold regular check-in meetings with teachers in the preschool and toddler programs.
• Ability to respond to daily program needs, including staffing, classroom support, trainings, and observations.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Early Education or related field
• Minimum of at least five years’ experience working in early education classrooms.
• Minimum of 1 year experience managing a team of educators.
• Sound knowledge of Creative Curriculum, TS GOLD assessment, ASQ-3 assessment, NAEYC standards, ECERS, ITERS, and PEEP
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Experience managing, leading, and building an effective staff.
• Ability to effectively communicate with both internal and external stakeholders.
• High level of computer literacy
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Current CPR and first aid certification
• Pass background and drug screening