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Child Care Center Director


Job Location:

Evanston, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: $ 73000 - 91000
Posted: 8 August 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 25 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Join Bright Horizons as a Child Care Center Director where your leadership helps create a highquality thriving early childhood center that supports children families and educators alike. Grounded in our mission and values youll build strong partnerships with staff families and clients while guiding program excellence and operational success. From leading daily operations and supporting enrollment to mentoring teachers and welcoming new families your work will shape a thriving center and make a meaningful lasting impact.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead hiring and create a motivating inclusive work environment that retains staff

  • Collaborate with the leadership team to evaluate and ensure program quality standards

  • Manage enrollment marketing billing and accounts payable while ensuring budget compliance

  • Build strong relationships and communicate proactively with families clients staff and licensing

Qualifications:

Candidates must pass required state and company background checks and meet state and company minimum education and experience requirements:

  • Associate or higher degree in early childhood education education or child development related field is required; bachelors degree is preferred

  • At least four years of leadership experience in high-quality child care daycare or preschool settings is required

  • Experience in both teaching (infant toddler or preschool) and administration of a child care center is required

  • Strong understanding of center quality compliance health safety and licensing standards is required

Bring your leadership skills and passion for early childhood education to Bright Horizons and be part of a community where people grow futures are shaped and lives are changed. We offer the rewards opportunities and support you deserve because making a difference goes both ways. Were changing the world of work and family and it starts with you. At Bright Horizons youre the difference.

Physical Requirements:

This position requires the employee to comply with all applicable federal state local Bright Horizons and client site requirements concerning immunizations employment physical/screening and health and safety training.

If hired you will work in person in an early education/preschool child care center to provide center supervision curriculum delivery business management and customer and client services per Bright Horizons policies procedures and guidance in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations and in a manner that will ensure safety of children in Bright Horizons care and the employee.

This role has a mixture of duties including office/computer/phone-based work in-person supervision of care delivery and employees throughout all areas of the center family/prospective family interactions which may take place in various areas of the center and the ability to temporarily serve as a supervising caregiver for relatively brief periods of time on an as-needed basis (e.g. covering employee breaks or unscheduled absences).

The full set of physical requirements for this role can be reviewed at Bright Horizons complies with all laws that require reasonable accommodation for qualifying disabilities and/or pregnancy-related limitations.

This position requires in-person work in the Evanston IL area.

Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $73000.00 - $91000.00 annually. The pay range listed here is what Bright Horizons in good faith anticipates offering for this job opening. Actual compensation offers within this range will depend on a variety of factors including experience education and training certifications geography and other relevant business or organizational factors.

Benefits:

Bright Horizons offers the following benefits for this position subject to applicable eligibility requirements:


Required Experience:

Director


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