Head of School - Yorba Linda, United States - Kids Corporation

Description

This position reports to the Board and is responsible for consistently delivering an exceptional experience to drive education, operations, and marketing for improved profitability.

This position assumes the responsibility of and oversees all operations and education of the school/daycare ages Infants (6 weeks) to Kindergarten.

Individual must be able to utilize resources such as time and people and be self driven with critical experiences as defined below.

• Key Functions:_

• Manages the team to ensure seamless operations. Ensures the training and coaching is supporting employee goals. Assesses, the strengths and developmental opportunities of all staff and train and develop staff. Trains staff on all aspects to plan and implement creative, developmentally appropriate programs for all children.
• Promotes teamwork by creating a positive and rewarding atmosphere where people want to come to work each day. Assess organization structure and adjust as needed to ensure payroll/wages do not exceed profit and loss targets. Allocate people and time resources to get work done for the school as needed to complete all aspects of managing the entire operations of the school.
• Recruit and hire talent to ensure a pipeline of strong talent is in place to reward and promote staff internally.
• Financial Management:_
• Manage biweekly payroll for all staff members.
• Manages all salary expenses and other controllable expenses within budgeted amounts and according to prescribed guidelines of compensation plan. Tracks all monetary transactions with customers and vendors as approved by the Board.
• Strategy & Vision:_
• Analyzes key business metrics and results to identify performance strengths and opportunities. Recommends impactful solutions that drive results. Develop a long range plan to proactively manage the enrollment, annual tuition increases and revenue targets for the academy.
• Under the Board's direction, it familiarizes itself with daycare/school budgets to ensure that all resources are managed effectively and within budgetary constraints and draft new budgets each year.
• Licensing, Compliance_ & Safety_:_
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with all State licensing authorities, approved vendors and community contacts. Meets with licensing specialists during inspections and reports to the franchisee/Board on a timely basis.
• Learn, implement and execute state funded childcare programming and state food programs to generate incremental revenue.
• Oversees the physical condition of the building and contents; seeks approval from the board and requests repair work as needed. Obtains estimates and coordinates repairs with vendors. Monitors janitorial work performed and reports any issues to the Board.
• Communicates clear priorities and relevant information in a timely manner throughout the daycare/school. Establishes clearly specified goals and action plans, assigning accountability and followsup. Creates a disciplined culture that is focused on flawless execution and followup.
• Completes State requirements for approved continued education training of required clock hours during the licensing year. Ensures that the daycare/school complies with all Federal, State, Local laws.
• Parent Engagement & Marketing:_
• Creates an exceptional parent/child experience using operational tools, excellent communication skills and personal leadership. Anticipates their needs and considers the impact of all decisions and actions. Ensures management is available to greet parents during peak hours (6:309:00 AM and 4:00 6:30 PM) and some weekends as needed. These are specific hours to great parents but job requires full day management of school as needed.
• Responds and follows up on all enrollment inquiries. Gives prospective customers tours of the facility and detailed information about mission, core values, programs, and procedures. Responsible for keeping disenrolled customers to a minimum; determines reasons for disenrollments and addresses problem areas which contribute to student turnover.
• Creates and delegates work as necessary for communication for the team members or others that will help ensure successful operation of the business.
• Social media management for parent engagement and marketing for enrollment.
• Operational Management_
• Facilitates the learning and adaptation of all new programs and business imperatives, while upholding the values of the school.
• Referseh, Create and train to ensure teachers can speak to the curriculum and what children are learning.
• Plans school activities and actively lead/participates in team meetings, training sessions, open houses, family/community activities, and planning sessions.
• Actively manages the process for accreditation and maintaining quality standards and procedures.
• Create/Enhance programming to continue to deliver value to differentiate and ensures that quality con