Coordinator - Early Childhood Education Centre - Maple, Canada - Schwartz Reisman Centre

Description

COORDINATOR - EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTRE

(40 hours per week)

Salary:
$47,000-$60,000.00 based on experience

Location:
Schwartz/Reisman Centre 9600 Bathurst St, Vaughan

Are you an ECE looking to take that next step in your career? Are you ready to step out of the classroom and make a greater impact on a centre? We have an incredible opportunity for career development working alongside our management team.

This role is not just a job; it's a gateway to professional growth and a chance to play a pivotal role in shaping the educational journey of our little ones while leading a team of passionate educators.

Are YOU our ECE Centre Coordinator?
You're a Registered E.C.E with a strong track record in administration and early childhood education. At your core, you're a superb educator, highly organized, technology proficient, with excellent people skills.

You have a passion for working with children and a strong flair for helping people and providing an exceptional educational and customer service experience.

Providing an enriched environment which promotes Jewish culture, traditions, and a connection to Israel are high on your priority list.

Your English language skills are superior, oral and written, and you are social media savvy. Working as part of a collaborative team with the SRC Daycare Director and Assistant Director. The ECE Centre Coordinator will cover for the Daycare Director/Assistant Director in their absence.


Key Responsibilities:

• Compliance with the ECE Centre program in a licensed facility ages 06 years of age according to the Child Care and Early Years Act, City of Vaughan Operating Criteria, Program Statement, JCCA Sheva framework, ELECT and How Does Learning Happen?
• Ensuring program and ratio compliance with the Ministry licensing and always ensuring the health and safety of all staff and children as well as accurate recordkeeping, covering in the classroom when needed for ratio.
• Handling emergencies.
• Creating a warm, friendly helpful and nurturing environment for parents, students and staff and ensuring a high rate of staff and children/family retention.
• Receiving the sick calls or text messages from staff 2 hours prior to start of their shift and finding replacement staff in the mornings and adjusting staff schedules accordingly.
• Assisting with troubleshooting staff issues.
• Assisting with proofreading and approving teachers' developmental checklist comments for semiannual parent reports.
• Assisting with office administration, including ordering supplies, liaising with kitchen staff, vendors, maintaining allergy list, daily attendance and class lists, processing registrations, maintaining waitlist, attendance tracking for subsidies, ensuring children's' and parents' files are continuously updated, ensuring all Ministry checks are completed as required, children's medical plans are up to date, processing access cards etc.
• Assisting with liaising with property services for cleanliness and sanitation.
• Assisting with ensuring proper protocols for monthly fire drills are followed and in actual emergency. Liaise with security as needed.
• Assisting with hiring, coaching, counseling, training, and evaluating staff through classroom observations and ensuring high results and staff retention.
• Developing and maintaining excellent working relationships among staff, including staff meetings.
• Assisting with payroll, invoices and PWE tracking.
• Assisting with kitchen administrative duties including ordering supplies, tracking invoices, overseeing kashrut, allergy prevention and other kitchen protocols.
• Helping with curriculum outlines and input into lesson plans and ensuring high quality outputs that meet the physical, social and emotional needs of the children in our care.
• Participating in SRC events and special activities.

Who are We?
At the JCC, you are part of something bigger. You matter.

The JCC is an open, inclusive, and welcoming community, where belonging is everything.

The JCC has become one of the largest platforms for engagement and connection to community in the Greater Toronto Area; a place where multiple generations can strengthen their body, mind, and soul.

Programs include arts and culture, aquatics, recreation, education, sports, fitness, daycare, day camp, and more. For over 100 years, JCCs have been serving Jewish communities around the world. There are over 300 JCCs globally and 150 in North America. 1.5 million people enter a JCC each week in North America.

In the JCC's recently completed Strategic Plan, it set a bold and ambitious goal that, by 2026, the number of people engaging with the Prosserman JCC (PJCC) and the Schwartz/Reisman Centre (SRC) will triple as the JCC becomes the centre of a thriving Jewish community.

We are on a growth path of transformative change so that, when we're done, 75,000 people annually will experience the JCC's new mission; to be a hub of community, dedicat