Early Childhood Manager
Job Description
Department: Early Childhood Development Program
Reports To : Founder & MD
Location : Yangon
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION
Responsible for providing instructional leadership, managing and leading the staff and overseeing the facility and budget. Responsible for providing for the overall well being of the preschool students.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITYS
1. Provide the instructional leadership – Monitor and support instructional activities, participate in and provide staff development, have knowledge of curriculum and standards, evaluate the instructional practices of early childhood teachers.

2. Communication – Communicate the vision of the school to all stakeholders, be an active listener, maintain cooperative professional relationship, provide opportunities for two way communication between school and communication between school and community, and district office and school.


3. Manage students – monitor and maintain consistent standard for student behavior, provide activities to involve students in all aspects of early childhood school life, monitor attendance, and maintain guidance, health and food services for the children.

4. Provide leadership and management of faculty and staff-recruit, hire, train and evaluate all staff members, develop and lead a School Improvement Team, motivate, and provide a positive work environment.

5. Develop master schedule and oversee/ coordinate scheduling processes.

6. Oversee facilities- supervise the maintenance of all facilities and equipment, identify and plan for future facilities needs, develop procedures for transportation, building and safety and emergencies.

7. Manage budget –prepare, administer, and oversee the building budget.

8. Participate in parent communications.

9. Coordinate community activities and involvement.

10. Monitor licensing and program policy implementation.

11. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirement listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/ or ability required.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Graduate degree (M.B.A.,M.A.,etc ), plus 5 years related experience and/or training, and 5 years related management experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and policy/ procedure manuals; Ability to effectively present information and respond to question form groups of managers ,clients, customers, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and drew valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram from and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Under administrative direction, setting up own standard of performance. Virtually self-supervising. Reports to senior management of the organization.
PLANNING
Considerable responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or sequence of performance of own work, in addition, the organization and delegation of work operations for a group of employees engaged in widely diversified activities.
DECISION MAKING
Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the work operations of small organization component and the organization’s clientele.
MENTAL DEMAND
Highly intense mental demand. Continual involvement with strategic and operational management functions which relate to both the short-term and long-term periods.
ANALYTICAL ABILITY/ PROBLEM SOLVING
Oversight. Activities covered by expensive policies and objectives, and oversight as to execution and review. High order of analytical, interpretative, and constructive thinking in varied situations covering multiple areas of the organization.
USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS
Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and production machines and equipment, etc.)
ACCURACY
Probable errors would normally not be detected in succeeding operations and could possibly affect organization-patron relationship, involve re-work, or additional expenditures in order to properly resolve the error. The possibility of such errors would occur quite frequently in performance of the job. May also cause inaccuracies or incomplete information that would be used in other segments of th