Details
Posted: 06-Jul-22
Location: MO
Salary: Open
Title: Director, Child Development Laboratory Centers (CDLC)
Employee Classification: Professional 52 Wks Non-Unit
Department Child Development Learn Ctr (CDLC)
Position Summary:
The Director, CDLC, is responsible for ensuring all compliance standards are met for licensing, accreditation, and other regulatory agencies for STLCC’s Child Development Laboratory Centers (CDLC). The director serves as the college’s liaison for external organizations related to childcare, ensures enrollment goals are met, provides fiscal oversight for the CDLC, creates all operational practices for the CDLC, and ensures that direct reports disseminate information to staff, STLCC students, and families. The director also works closely with the Child and Family Development (CFD) program coordinator and dean to ensure that the CDLC remains a collaborative learning environment for CFD and other college students. The director also works with his/her supervisor, center managers, and the campus presidents to ensure that the centers maintain all necessary standards and regulations to ensure a safe and healthy learning environment for all children, staff, students, and families.
Primary Duties Performed:
| • Supervises, coaches, and models for direct reports in developmentally appropriate practice; CDLC philosophy, protocol, and practices; licensing regulations; and accreditation standards.
• Develops, implements, and manages effective partnerships with industries and organizations that lead to increased opportunities for students, the College, and the child and family development industries and organizations in the St. Louis region; attends advisory board committees for surrounding school districts and other organizations.
• Serves as a liaison to college departments and community agencies related to or interested in child and family development/early childhood education issues and needs, including but not limited to the Department of Health and Social Services, Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Childhood, Child Care Aware, National Coalition of Campus Children’s Centers, area universities, National Association of Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and all accreditation/licensing organizations.
• Prepares, submits, provides reports, and oversees the annual budget for the CDLC, including reviewing revenue; serves as the oversight official for any grants obtained by the CDLC; provides responsibility for ensuring that all grant activities are completed in a timely manner.
• In conjunction with the Office of Institutional Development, identifies external funding sources and authors or co-authors grants that can support existing activities of the CDLC, can develop new programs, and can create new training opportunities for students, staff, faculty, and community partners.
• Schedules and chairs monthly meetings for the CDLC staff and reports on any issues that may impact the work of the CDLC, provides monthly updates and reports to direct supervisor, and serves on appropriate campus or college committees.
• Establishes and maintains an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the CDLC’s goals and objectives.
• Oversees the CDLC’s compliance with licensing standards and state and national accreditation standards, providing all necessary reports, documents, forms, etc. to ensure licensing and accreditation is maintained for the CDLC.
• Provides and supervises professional development opportunities for all CDLC staff.
• Works with the managers to review budgetary needs, orders, etc. for the centers.
• Maintains the CDLC as a model for use in the CFD program and in other college programs; collaborates with CFD faculty to ensure best practices are maintained in the program and the CDLC; attends advisory board meetings for the CFD program.
• Serve on division or campus leadership teams as requested by the dean and/or campus president.
• Supports the managers in responding to parent issues, concerns, or complaints.
• Keeps current on licensing and accreditation standards and ensures compliance across the centers.
• Coordinates the creation and dissemination of a quarterly newsletter for families.
• Creates and implements operational practices and protocols to ensure a safe and healthy environment for children, ensuring all licensing and accreditation standards are met.
• Creates, revises, and ensures compliance with the staff handbook and the family handbook.
• Performs normal supervisory functions: trains; instructs; assigns work to CDLC personnel; recommends transfers and terminations; arranges for additional work or need for overtime; explains and enforces College policies, safety rules, and regulations; evaluates performance.
• Works with the assistant managers to ensure CDLC enrollment goals are met; works with other college departments as necessary to meet enrollment goals; coordinates with and provides information about enrollment to the Childcare Resource and Referral Coordinator; and develops the overall marketing plan for the CDLC in coordination with Marketing and Communication
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned. |
| Required Qualifications: • Master’s degree in Early Childhood, Child and Family Development, or similar area or Master’s degree with Bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood, Child and Family Development, or similar area.
• Eight years of full-time experience in a licensed childcare center, including at least three years of supervisory experience at the assistant manager, manager, director, or assistant director level. |
| Preferred Qualifications: |
| Salary Range: $77,688.00 Minimum |
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
St. Louis Community College is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experience, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity.
