Regional Director

Responsibilities:

Program / Administration:

· Ensuring that your centers are adhering to and enforcing all the policies and procedures of Care-a-lot Child Care and the childcare licensing regulations of New York State

· Ensuring that your centers are in accordance with governmental laws/state mandates (Health Dept., CACFP, etc.)

· Maintaining program quality at your centers to meet state/national accreditation standards, specifically QUALITYstarsNY

· Ensuring the implementation of an age and developmentally appropriate, open-ended program of the highest quality at your centers that supports learning through play

• Overseeing QUALITYstarsNY program for all centers to ensure centers are in compliance, ready for recertification, and that new centers are certified in a timely manner.
• Overseeing training for all centers to ensure that the remain in compliance with NYS/OCFS requirements
• Overseeing Aspire for all centers, i.e.: monitoring accounts, on boarding on new locations.
• Selecting and training centers with an accredited curriculum
• Leading company efforts for achieving accreditation
• Evaluating and implementing systems such as Pyramid Model, etc.

· Supporting the integration of acquired facilities and the hiring of Admin staff

· Meeting agreed upon deadlines

· Providing timely updates on projects

· Utilizing data to establish and measure center performance on a regular basis

· Communicating frequently and effectively with staff

· Guarding and protecting all information of a confidential manner

· Assisting and rendering staff support to all classrooms and employees as necessary

· Participating in professional conferences, ongoing training or educational opportunities to remain current in the field

· Completing 15 hours of early childhood training within the first 6 months and every year thereafter

· Support centers in absence of the Director or Assistant Director

• Additional responsibilities as assigned by management

Personnel/Supervision:

· Training Admin staff in areas of responsibility listed above, and monitoring Admin performance to ensure that training was successful

· Communicating effectively and directly with all staff

· Serving in the absence of other staff as necessary