Head Start Operations Manager

2 weeks ago

Aransas Pass, Texas, United States Community Action Full time
Job Summary

The Operations Manager is responsible for overseeing assigned Head Start Centers, ensuring compliance with the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) and minimum standards. This position leads center staff to operationalize program components with optimal quality standards, promoting continuous quality improvement.

Key Responsibilities
  • Program Planning & Service System Design: Implement, monitor, and maintain quality standards in education and supporting content areas, including curricula, child assessments, family engagement, health and nutrition, mental health and disabilities, and policies and procedures.
  • Data and Evaluation: Collect and analyze data for assigned centers to ensure HSPPS compliance with optimal quality standards, including attendance, health forms, immunizations, home visits, center visits, enrollment, CLASS scores, curriculum fidelity, child assessment data, and staff training.
  • Community and Self Assessment: Collaborate with the Development Team to collect and submit necessary data on a bi-annual basis from families, staff, and community members for assigned center operations for the Community Needs Assessment.
  • Fiscal Management: Ensure assigned Head Start Centers have necessary inventory and supplies for quality programming, notifying supervisors of aging equipment and ensuring timely maintenance and IT requests.
  • Communication Systems: Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with community partners, families, and LEAs to enhance delivery of comprehensive services to children and families, communicating regularly with Mentors regarding teacher professional development plans, growth, areas of improvement, and training needs.
  • Ongoing Monitoring and CQI: Monitor DECAs, 1606s, CLASS observations, facility checklists, portfolios, children's folders, In-kind, lesson plans, health requirements, and educational assessments and screenings.
  • Training and Professional Development: Ensure staff attend training as assigned and according to teaching staff needs.
  • Record Keeping and Reporting: Ensure all assigned classrooms have up-to-date and accurate data in the ChildPlus tracking system for all content areas, keeping track of timesheets, CACFP paperwork, PIR, licensing requirements, and checklists.
  • Human Resources: Supervise Teachers and other assigned classroom staff, including pre-hiring, hiring, counseling, new hire training, professional development, monitoring, conducting performance coaching/evaluations, delegation of duties, conflict resolution, appraising job tasks, and recommending disciplinary action.
  • Facilities and Learning Environments: Ensure facilities meet and/or exceed health and safety standards through facility management systems, conducting or assigning daily and monthly facility checklists for assigned centers.
  • Technology and Information Systems: Collaborate with teaching staff to ensure technology is incorporated into daily lessons and confidentiality is maintained.
  • Communication: Develop a strong communication system that channels communication to all classrooms, content areas, leadership, and collaboration partners effectively and efficiently, promoting an environment of teamwork and cooperation.
Work Experience
  • Required:
    • Pass a DFPS background check.
    • Pass an annual physical.
    • Three (3) years experience in a licensed center or public school setting at a grade level no higher than elementary school.
    • Attend 24 clock hours of professional development and staff training per year, including training on methods to handle suspected or known child abuse and neglect cases.
  • Preferred:
    • Previous Head Start experience.
    • English/Spanish bi-lingual fluency.
Education/Certifications/Licensure
  • Required:
    • Baccalaureate degree in early childhood education or a Baccalaureate degree and coursework equivalent to a major relating to early childhood education.
Skills
  • Required:
    • Leadership and supervisory skills.
    • Ability to operate video communications and various computer programs.
    • Motivational and teaching skills.
    • Ability to supervise and ensure a safe learning environment.
    • Ability to respond to emergencies and crisis situations.
    • Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships.
    • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
    • Ability to be persuasive and tactful in controversial situations.
    • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
    • Ability to learn new tasks quickly and efficiently.
    • Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet deadlines.
About Community Action Corporation of South Texas (CACOST)

CACOST is a private non-profit organization established in 1971 and funded through federal, state, and local grants. We serve 16 counties via a wide variety of community programs and services, striving to improve the lives of South Texans by providing high-quality health care, education, housing, and economic opportunities to reduce poverty through services and partnerships.

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