Early Learning Program Manager

Overall Staff Responsibilities:

Share responsibility with a team of colleagues and parents to honor the mission:

• to eliminate the prolific racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident creative and compassionate leaders;

• Practice the values of KairosPDX in professional conduct and daily interactions:

  • respect responsibility honesty excellence and service to community

• Incorporate the beliefs of KairosPDX in all approaches and instruction

  • Every child is uniquely capable innately curious and inherently creative

  • Character and agency are essential to achievement and are developed through relationship and service to others

  • A multi- cultural context delivers a strong sense of self and is a requirement for participation in our global society

  • Children must be supported in the context of their families;

• Support multicultural practice and inquiry based approaches that are:

• Actively anti-racist confronting bias in all of its forms

• Education for social justice acknowledging history and studying the present to make informed decisions regarding a more equitable future

• Pervasive Examining practices in all levels of school culture and organization

• Personal Beginning with the necessary consideration of self as a cultural being

• Critical Pedagogy Pursuing multiple perspectives anticipating contradictions and challenging assumptions

• Empowering Providing children the ego strength to challenge racist societal views

• Helping children think deeply about themselves and others.

Core Position Responsibilities:

• Inspiring a culture of listening and relationship centered on the organizations mission and values;

• Creating a positive environment by implementing structures to maintain safety as well as staff morale;

• Working with a team of colleagues and families to provide a nurturing and positive climate that encourages student responsibility and intrinsic motivation;

• Implementing school safety emergency and procedures ensuring onsite building safety;

• Collaborating with Early Learning Director to ensure the logistics and schedule of the school day runs smoothly and supports instructional excellence;

• Managing family concerns and communication with care clarity and consistency;

• Ensuring program compliance with state policy and codes;

• Managing the program budget as well as ordering and inventory of materials;

• Serving as onsite lead pre-school administrator as needed;

• Support the culture and climate of KairosPDX Early Learning Academy through:

  • Contributing to a structured and relational learning environment designed to build skill confidence and a positive cultural and academic identity;

  • Supporting students in a fair and consistent manner using clear routines and expectations as well as school approved behavior support techniques;

  • Ensuring that student and staff expectations are clear and visible for all;

  • Collaboratively work with student school team and families to address unexpected behaviors in line with KairosPDX policies;

• Supervise Early Learning Teacher and Assistant Teacher overseeing training and protocols related to the effective execution of their responsibilities;

• Engaging families in the life of the school and creating opportunities for families to strengthen their sense of belonging;

• Collaborating with KairosPDX Early Learning Director to organize school events and celebrations;

• Support the high expectations for student achievement at KairosPDX through:

  • Collaborating with school leadership to implement mission consistent systems strategies and language;

  • Collaborating with KairosPDX Early Learning Director and KairosPDX Learning Academy School Administrator to craft and communicate specific milestones toward social emotional cultural and academic readiness for Kindergarten;

• Collaborating with school leadership to support materials reflection and documentation within the classroom;

• Participating in the development and evaluation of educational programs and curriculum; Coach support supervise and evaluate teachers and other staff as assigned by the KairosPDX Early Learning Director;

• Supervising classroom instructors including overseeing training evaluation and protocols related to the effective execution of KairosPDX Early Learning Academy approved curriculum and continuous improvement practices;

• Overseeing KairosPPDX staff collaboration with the Multnomah Education School Districts (MESD) specialists on specific instruction and strategies for children on Individual Family Service Plans (IFSPs);

• Managing the use of data to assess student progress formulate instructional practices and to differentiate instruction; focus on narrowing disparities between the highest and lowest performing students in order to meet the needs of every student;

• Managing daily building staffing schedule to ensure students safety and seamless classroom instruction;

• Managing the planning and supervising of field trips and school bus usage;

• Managing building opening and closing as needed.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participates and leads as needed in professional development staff meetings and attends other meetings and seminars;

• Attend several KairosPDX staff and family events;

• Participate in continuous improvement practices including observations reflections and collaborations;

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Salary and Benefits:

Salary Range: Dependent on qualifications ranging from $60000- $84000.

Benefits include: Up to three weeks of building closure breaks paid sick/personal leave days paid holidays employer contribution for health insurance professional development opportunities.

Required Experience:

Manager