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General Information

Work Location: Arleta, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
Posted Date
03/13/2025
Salary Range: $68800 - 141000 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
23231

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Center-Based Manager directly supervises child development center teachers and coaches while serving as an advisor to the unit and administration. This role involves analyzing and resolving issues, interpreting policies related to fiscal management, human resources, contracts, grants, and resource management, and applying subject matter expertise. The manager exercises judgment within established procedures and policies to determine appropriate actions.

Additionally, they oversee staff to ensure accountability and responsible stewardship of departmental resources—operational, financial, and human—in alignment with departmental goals and objectives. This position includes direct supervision of an Early Childhood Education site and receives assignments in the form of objectives, along with guidance on achieving them.

The Center-Based Manager provides direction to employees based on established policies and management guidance, administers policies affecting subordinate staff, and recommends updates to Early Childhood Education policies and practices. They may also participate in strategic planning. Management evaluates their work based on goal achievement, while they set priorities and analyze workflow for the sites under their responsibility.


Salary Range: $68,800.00 - $141,000.00

Job Qualifications

Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in child development, education, human development, or related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
  • Current, valid Child Development Permit
  • Current, valid CPR/First Aid Certificate
  • Must test TB negative and have health screening clearance (physical)
  • Required to pass FBI and DOJ criminal check with approval from Dept. of Social Services.
  • Solid working knowledge of early childhood education, as well as related policy and regulatory compliance requirements.
  • Intermediate computer application skills.
  • Solid inter-personal skills, service orientation, ability to multi-task effectively in a varied, challenging environment, judgment and decision making, reasoning, ability to develop original ideas to resolve problems, and highly effective verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred:
  • Master’s degree in early childhood education


As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.