Brightside Academy is seeking a Full Time Academy Director in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The successful candidate will oversee daily operations, ensure compliance, and provide a safe and educational environment for children. The position offers a competitive wage, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
Requirements
- Assumes responsibility for every daily operations aspect of the learning center.
- Ensures compliance to licensing/accrediting agencies.
- Abiding by and enforcing company policies and procedures.
- Communicates in verbal and written format with above-standard quality in composition, content, and timeliness.
- Adheres to budgetary requirements; controls and manages expenses to achieve budgeted profitability.
- Earns and maintains consistent customer satisfaction, maximizing enrollment potential and minimizing student withdrawals.
- Follows all required business management practices.
- Properly on-boards new staff.
- Completes parent/child interviews prior to enrollment.
- Acts as a liaison between teachers and parents to address problems and answer questions.
- Strives to provide a clean, healthy, and active learning environment.
- Ensures efficient and sufficient staff/child ratios are maintained; manages staff schedule.
- Escalates safety violations, facility issues, and/or state agency violations.
- Manage resources to ensure adequate supplies are available to children and staff.
- Utilizes company’s scorecard reporting; adjusts operations as needed to meet requirements.
- Encourages effective, quality teaching by ensuring curriculum is followed, lesson plans are effectively used and child assessment tools measure class activity success.
- Ensures academy is operating efficiently and in compliance with all Brightside Academy policies, state regulations, CACFP and all other regulatory agencies.
- Leads, inspires, and energizes the team; hold accountable to assigned tasks.
- Articulates clear standards and expectations of staff.
- Provides frequent and concise communication to academy staff about company matters.
- Any other duties as assigned by manager.
Benefits
- Medical Plan options
- Dental/Vision Plan options
- FREE Short-Term Disability
- 9 Paid Holidays
- Up to 25 Paid Time Off Days
- 401(k) Traditional & Roth Plans with Company Match
- FREE Life Insurance coverage
- Additional & affordable Group Term Life Benefits
- Life Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Child Care Discounts
- Team Member Discount Programs
- Travel & Identify Theft Assistance
- Credit Union Partnership
- Employee Engagement events
- Bonus opportunities
- Professional Development Educational Opportunities and Credentialing Assistance
- FREE CDA Certification training
- Various Professional & Personal Continuing Learning Opportunities and Career Advancement
- Support from all levels within the company
- Our continued efforts to making Brightside Academy a Great Place to Work
