Summary 

Supervises children, within a laboratory early care and education environment, ensuring their health, safety, and welfare; and instructs them in activities designed to promote social/ emotional, physical, and intellectual growth. Serves as a professional model and mentor to ECE program students.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Maintains constant supervision of children.
• Plans developmentally appropriate activities balancing children’s needs for individual and group activities, physical and quiet play, and child initiated and teacher-initiated activities.
• Maintains an individual portfolio assessment system on each child and conducts parent conferences twice a year or as needed.
• Plans, organizes and attends trainings, workshops, and events designed for families of the CDC.
• Gives each child the attention needed to assure his/her best welfare including needs related to learning experiences, eating, toileting, sleeping, playing, health care and safety.
• Maintains accurate attendance reports and other center and child records.
• Prepares, implements, and gathers educational materials required to implement the program and curriculum.
• Provides guidance and supervises JCC adult students from various programs including Early Childhood Education (ECE) practicum students by providing weekly updates and student evaluations as required.
• Collaborates with ECE and other program instructors, and remains available to all other ECE students that utilization of the laboratory classroom environments.
• Recommends children for referral as needed for specialized services to the Director of the Child Development Center.
• Maintains cleanliness classrooms, bathrooms, storage areas, kitchen, and playground in a neat and organized manner. 
• Works as a team to ensure all licensing, health and sanitation and accreditation standards are met.
• Assist in preparations of daily meals, if needed while maintaining sanitation rules/regulations 
• and the Child and Adult Food Care Program requirements.
• Maintain cleanliness of kitchen, classrooms, bathrooms and other assigned areas.
• Maintains accurate record keeping for attendance, CACFP (food program), and other programs and agencies as needed for the class assigned.
• Participates in professional development based on NC license rules and regulations and JCC staff evaluations and Professional Development plan.
• Collaborates with internal and external individuals, agencies and initiatives related to the Child Development Center or Early Care and Education field.
• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Supervisory Responsibilities                       

This job has no employee supervisory responsibilities but could assist in supervision of classroom volunteers, visitors, students, etc.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations 
•           CPR
•           First Aid
•           Playground Certification
•           NC Early Childhood Credential
•           NC Early Educator Certification (Level 8-11)
•           ITS SIDS certification would also be required for working in infant/toddler classrooms

Language Skills                                 

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.  
• Ability to write simple correspondence.  
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to utilize a wide variety of data such as NC Child Care rules and regulations, accreditation guidelines, sanitation requirements, etc.
• Quality oral and written communication skills for modeling for children as well as communicating with outside agencies, students and families.

Mathematical Skills                                      

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.   
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness, and creativity required of situations involving the direction, implementation and planning of the classroom environment and activities and use a variety of behavior guidance strategies.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills and Additional Tools 

• Basic use of computers including word processing, typing, email, 
• Utilizing and researching on the internet and attaching documents
• Experiences with online course delivery systems (such as Blackboard).
• Ability to operate children’s electronic educational tools such as Smart Tables, computers and other similar electronic media as well 
• Ability to operate additional office equipment such as fax, copier, and printer.

 Physical Demands                        
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
 
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee must be able to communicate effectively. The employee must be able to meet mobility requirements and be able to occasionally move materials of up to 10 pounds. Must be able to access print material and utilize the information effectively.

Employee must be able to obtain physician approval for physical and mental health upon employment and thereafter as needed or required.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Typical work environment includes early care and education classroom settings and a group of children in the JCC Child Development Center on the main campus.
• Field trips and other external excursions may be required on alternative on-campus or off-campus locations.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.