Child Care Regional Manager / Area Director

Job Type: Full-Time, Salary

Location: Cincinnati, OH
BrightPath Kids, part of the Busy Bees Global Childcare Community, is growing our team of Early Childhood Educators! BrightPath Kids is a world-class, award winning, innovative provider of early childhood daycare that aims to foster a culture of diversity and open-mindedness for all.
What will you be doing?
As an Area Director, you will work side by side with teachers, children, and families to provide a home away from home for children in our community. You will oversee several child care centers and manage directors to ensure quality of operations are up to BrightPath standards. You will be responsible for the overall operation of the child care centers including, but not limited to: recruitment and development of staff, management of policies and procedures, child safety, environmental health/hygiene, NAEYC accreditation standards, state licensing, and other internal company policies.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Address parent complaints and concerns related to education/classroom programs
• Ensure centers are in compliance with all state, safety, fire, quality educational programming and staffing regulations.
• Direct supervision of assigned Center Directors. Oversee daily responsibilities to include management of and support to Center Directors. Oversee training, management style, supervision of staff and facilities.
• Implementation of Crisis Management Plan in the event of accident, disaster, pandemic, etc.
• Provides training on new policies for administration and staff to ensure policies and procedures are continually followed.
• Review customer survey and staff survey summaries and establishes and executes Actions Plans for improvement as needed.
• Recommend and initiate classroom reorganization including closing and openings of rooms/programs within designated centers
• Assess overall appearance of designated sites including equipment, furniture, cleanliness, bathrooms, playgrounds, landscaping, etc.

Top Reasons to join BrightPath Kids:

• We offer a 60% child care discount to ALL employees so that your family can take advantage of our great learning environment!

• Full-time staff are offered health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance and $10,000 of company-paid life insurance.
• We will support your long-term career goals by offering opportunities for professional development and tuition reimbursement for courses related to your field.
• All staff are eligible to participate in the 401(k) program which offers a company match – this is free money!
• Full-time staff are offered paid time off and paid holidays.

Required Skills:

• Ability to multitask and remain organized
• Must be able to function independently within the Microsoft Office suite of products
• 3+ years of management experience
• 5+ years of childcare or teaching experience
• Demonstrated leadership qualities and ability to supervise others
• Ability to work within regular operating hours
• Strong customer service and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Early Childhood Education or related field required
• Must meet State criteria for childcare employment

If this sounds like a good fit, we want to meet you! Please submit your application today.