Childcare Center Director - KPC

Lutheran Family Services Rocky Mountains•Colorado Springs, CO

7d•$53,200 - $59,000•Onsite

About The Position

The KPC Family Resource Center, established in 2004, offers free respite care for infants and young children, including temporary crisis care and planned childcare. It also provides case management and family support services. KPC is state-licensed as a Small Child Care Center, dedicated to supporting families in Colorado Springs and promoting long-term stability. The Childcare Center Director will lead and oversee the center, using a strengths-based coaching approach to manage staff and volunteers. In collaboration with the Program Director, this role is responsible for the center's programmatic, administrative, and operational management, ensuring high-quality services, regulatory compliance, and effective communication.

Requirements

Must maintain a valid driver's license and carry personal auto liability insurance at the level of $100,000/300,000/100,000.
Must qualify as center director as specified in Colorado Volume 7 daycare licensing rules.
Bachelor's degree with coursework in Early Childhood Education and (3) years relevant experience; or Equivalent combination of education and experience.
Manages Projects and Functions: Ensures effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of services and/or programs. Organizes people, resources, and activities and fosters collaboration to achieve responsibilities, goals and targets.
Promotes Staff Development: Maintains positive and professional relationships with staff, providing regular feedback on strengths and areas needing improvement. Provides ongoing training and coaching to help staff develop skills and knowledge to be successful at work and foster professional growth.
Communicates Expectations Clearly: Ensures that expectations are achievable, communicated clearly and understood.
Utilizes Delegation: Ensures that responsibilities are appropriately delegated to staff according to individual skills, job duties and work priorities.
Fosters Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Promotes efforts aimed at improving current processes through a culture that fosters continuous improvement. Identifies and Implements improvements and innovations that increase efficiency and enhance work quality.
Communicates Professionally: Ability to communicate professionally and cooperate with colleagues, other professionals, community partners, and other individuals involved in the care and coordination of services.
Meet standards of practice: Familiarity with or ability to follow practice standards, including applicable local, state and federal regulations and guidance, and contractual requirements.
Provide crisis intervention: Experience with crisis management, problem solving, and mediation best practices.
Maintains Program Documentation: Maintains consistency of program documentation and ensures that documentation and reporting is completed in a thorough, high quality, and timely manner.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, and asking questions as appropriate.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and attempting to understand the personal and cultural reasons for their reactions.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with crisis intervention and trauma informed practices preferred.
Supervisory experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and oversight for the KPC Family Resource Center.
Apply a strengths-based coaching approach to support and manage a team of direct service staff and volunteers.
Partner with the Program Director for programmatic, administrative, and operational management of the center.
Ensure high-quality service delivery to children and families.
Maintain program efficiency and regulatory compliance.
Facilitate effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
Manage a team of direct services staff and volunteers, utilizing positive team building leadership, clear communication, delegation, training, and performance evaluation.
Assure day-to-day compliance with current state rules governing daycare policies and procedures.
Provide oversight for children placed in KPC Family Resource Center, including completion of intake paperwork.
Maintain written documentation and prepare necessary reports on a timely basis.
Contribute to grant proposals, monitoring, and reporting as appropriate for the program.
Ensure the center is fiscally sound and programs are sustainable in collaboration with the Program Director.
Respond to the crisis phone line and provide emergency on-call backup services.
Be responsible for staff recruitment and training staff and volunteers according to Volume 7 daycare licensing rules.
Provide crisis support when needed.
May participate in on-call rotation.