Program Director – Brooklyn Kindergarten Society – Brooklyn, NY

Have you been looking for an exciting, career enhancing opportunity in an early childhood setting? Are you creative and filled with ideas to help improve the quality of early childhood education experiences of low-income students? Opportunities like this come around only once every few years. Grab it and apply to join the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society team!

BKS is one of the oldest, high quality early childhood education agencies in New York City first opening its doors in 1891. Today, we provide innovative, enriching, educationally-stimulating, early childhood programming aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty for the most vulnerable families in Brooklyn. Winner of the Robin Hood Foundation Heroes Award, recognized by Root Cause as one of the top seven school readiness program in Greater New York, and generally acknowledged as a leader in early childhood education — just waiting for you to apply.

Job Summary

The Program Director serves as the educational lead for a five classroom EarlyLearn center with responsibilities including the following:

• Ensure full implementation of all aspects of Creative Curriculum, policies/procedures and tools with the goal of supporting all children to achieve school readiness goals.

• Supervise all teaching staff (teachers, assistant teachers, teacher aides, floaters, cooks, bookkeeper, custodians, substitutes)

• Provide ongoing coaching to teaching staff to support them in successfully fulfilling all aspects of their role, including but not limited to effective practices in the following:

1) CLASS™ Teacher-Child Interactions

2) Learning Environments

3) Curriculum

4) Child Assessment

5) Meeting All Children’s Needs

6) Working with Families

7) Professional Growth and Collaboration

8) Health and Safety

• Work with teachers to implement program curriculum with fidelity.

• Work with teachers to implement the child assessment system reliably, including understanding child outcomes data and using them to plan and individualize.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in any field related to children or business (per NYC DOHMH licensing requirements with valid New York State Teacher Certificate on file

• Previous experience teaching in an early childhood setting; experience with supervision, management or coaching preferred

• Experience managing an infant/toddler and/or preschool program

• Bilingual in Spanish and English preferred

• Experience with inclusion of children with disabilities preferred

• Knowledge of infant/toddler health and safety licensing requirements

• Experience with collaborations and community partnerships

• Experience in fiscal management/budget preparations

• Able to lift a child weighing 40 pounds, 20 times a day if needed

• Obtain certification in CPR and First Aid.

How to apply

Please forward coverletter and resume to: info@bksny.org

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