Lead Teacher - Child Development Center

YMCA of Greater Louisville•Louisville, KY

2d•$21 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Teacher is responsible for the overall classroom atmosphere, curriculum, development of each child to their full potential, and communication with parents and classroom staff. The preschool program aims to foster a learning community where staff, children, and families experience wonder, play, adventure, investigation, and support. The role involves caring for children ages 3–5 and ensuring their health, welfare, safety, and quality programming.

Requirements

Minimum age of 21 years.
Experience in an early childhood setting.
Ability to work with children ages 3–5 and understand developmental differences.
Ability to care for young children in a group setting.
Ability to lead, manage, and supervise a staff team.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to work with others as a team and demonstrate a people-centered, service-oriented approach.
Personal commitment to the YMCA mission, philosophy, and character development values.
Ability to lift and carry or hold children weighing up to 50 pounds.
Ability to bend, stoop, sit on the floor or in child-sized chairs, climb, reach, run, push, walk, and kneel.
Ability to operate a computer, swim with children, see, hear, and project the voice across a distance in normal and loud situations.
Ability to work in a high-noise environment.

Nice To Haves

Degree in Early Childhood Education or a Child Development Associate (CDA) credential.
Infant, Child, and Adult CPR and First Aid certification; certification must be obtained within 30 days after hire.

Responsibilities

Uphold the YMCA mission and model its values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility through a positive, nurturing, genuine, hopeful, and welcoming approach.
Create and facilitate age-appropriate curriculum activities for young children.
Lead, manage, and supervise a staff team.
Ensure the health, welfare, and safety of children in the classroom and provide quality programming.
Maintain a safe, welcoming, clean, sanitary, organized, and presentable classroom and center.
Prepare and implement curriculum, lesson plans, studies, assessments, and parent conferences.
Maintain attendance records, incident reports, medication waivers, daily care sheets, and other required documentation.
Build and maintain open communication with children, parents, the program director, and other staff.
Attend required staff meetings and trainings.
Complete required abuse risk management training, follow appropriate-boundary policies, monitor for suspicious or inappropriate behavior and policy violations, report concerns to a supervisor, and follow mandated abuse-reporting requirements.
Perform required physical and care duties, including assisting with toileting, swimming with children, and spending time outdoors in summer and winter.