Job description
Are you passionate about childhood education and helping children learn, grow, and develop while working in a fun and rewarding environment? At Akinom Academy, our mission is to serve families in our community by providing high quality education and affordable childcare in a loving, safe, and nurturing atmosphere. If you are motivated to make a positive impact on our future generation, apply today to become a part of our team!
This is a full-time position with a Monday – Friday schedule. The pay is $17.00 per hour. This position is onsite at our center located: 615 North Pine Hills Road, Orlando FL 32808.
The Assistant Director plays a meaningful role in turning children's goals into reality and helping Akinom Academy become the best it can be. You'll have the opportunity to utilize your natural interpersonal and sales skills while bringing an enthusiastic energy to the staff and facility. The Assistant Director is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and quality of education for all children within the center’s care. The goal of this position is to collaborate with staff to ensure that curriculum and classroom activities are properly delivered, and that the needs of the students and the goals of the center are met appropriately while we send our students off to kindergarten feeling academically prepared, socially confident, and personally happy. If you would like to make a difference in young lives, we'd love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do:
Why You’ll Love Working for Us:
What We Need from You:
Akinom Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in and seek diversity in our applicants.
This is a full-time position with a Monday – Friday schedule. The pay is $17.00 per hour. This position is onsite at our center located: 615 North Pine Hills Road, Orlando FL 32808.
The Assistant Director plays a meaningful role in turning children's goals into reality and helping Akinom Academy become the best it can be. You'll have the opportunity to utilize your natural interpersonal and sales skills while bringing an enthusiastic energy to the staff and facility. The Assistant Director is responsible for ensuring the health, safety, and quality of education for all children within the center’s care. The goal of this position is to collaborate with staff to ensure that curriculum and classroom activities are properly delivered, and that the needs of the students and the goals of the center are met appropriately while we send our students off to kindergarten feeling academically prepared, socially confident, and personally happy. If you would like to make a difference in young lives, we'd love to hear from you!
What You’ll Do:
- Manage adherence to quality standards in accordance with the center’s vision and state and local requirements.
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work well with others (staff, children, and parents) and to foster a team environment.
- A strong understanding of child development and appropriate engagement strategies.
- Prepare weekly report for the Senior Director outlining the details of your contacts, tours, and resulting enrollments
- Collect information, assess applications, handle application documentation, enter data into files, make recommendations, and provide customer service to families as needed.
- Assistant with administrative duties to include budget management, personnel record keeping, childcare management systems, and daily reporting and inspection.
Why You’ll Love Working for Us:
- Lunches Provided
- One-week unpaid time off – Winter Break
- Professional development assistance
- Holidays Off with pay after 1 year of service – New Years, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day
What We Need from You:
- Strong interpersonal and sales skills
- Cheerful, enthusiastic, and engaging in the workplace
- Demonstrate empathy and patience in difficult situations
- Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood education or related field of study
- Minimum of 30 credits in ECE
- DCF 45 hours and CDA Required
- Director Credential Required
- Willingness to obtain VPK Teacher credentials from DCF
- Must clear a full DCF Level II background check
- 3 – 5 years of direct professional experience in an early childhood setting
- CPR, First Aid, and Fire Extinguisher Certification completion within 30 days of employment
Akinom Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in and seek diversity in our applicants.
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