Infant Lead Teacher - Madison

EMBE•Madison, SD

8d•Onsite

About The Position

EmBe's mission is to uplift the potential in children, women, and families through opportunities that empower all. Our values are curiosity, authenticity, leadership, and connection. At EmBe we compensate for education and experience and encourage professional growth. You play a vital role in providing a safe, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment for our youngest learners. As the Lead Teacher in the Infant Classroom, you are responsible for leading daily classroom operations, supporting infant growth and development, maintaining individualized care routines, partnering with families, and mentoring classroom staff. You create meaningful experiences that foster learning, exploration, security, and connection during a child's earliest stages of development. As a leader within the center, you model professionalism, positive relationships, and high-quality caregiving practices while ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of every child in your care.

Requirements

Previous childcare experience working with infants preferred
CDA, Associates in ECE, or Bachelor's in Education preferred
General knowledge of child growth and development
Occasional lifting of 20 to 40 lbs
No substantiated history of child abuse and neglect
No staff member will have a felony conviction record on file within the last 5 years
No staff member’s name will appear on the sex offender’s registry

Nice To Haves

Ensure EmBe brand, mission, vision, and values are reflected in all interactions
Demonstrate and reinforce professionalism, appropriate language, take responsibility for actions, and mentor positive behavior to all throughout the center

Responsibilities

Leading daily classroom operations
Supporting infant growth and development
Maintaining individualized care routines
Partnering with families
Mentoring classroom staff
Creating meaningful experiences that foster learning, exploration, security, and connection
Modeling professionalism, positive relationships, and high-quality caregiving practices
Ensuring the health, safety, and well-being of every child
Implementing the curriculum/lesson plans developed by the curriculum team
Supporting children to develop self-regulation, emotional, and support skills
Creating a stimulating learning environment
Assessing a child’s development with age-appropriate milestones
Ensuring the safety and well-being of each child along with treating all with dignity and respect
Overseeing and interacting with children’s play, crafts, singing songs, reading books and diapering
Maintaining a safe, healthy, and clean learning environment inside and outside the classroom
Maintaining appropriate staff to child ratio, consult with the site manager when substitutes are needed, or children should be moved to other classrooms
Accurately providing documentation, such as meal sheets, daily sheets, accident reports, medication sheets, as well as communicating parent information daily via technology and in person
Warmly greeting each parent and child upon arrival and departure to each classroom
Engaging in child’s well-being and daily activities
Remaining up to date on mandatory training hours
All other duties as assigned