Senior Manager of ECE Effectiveness & Quality
BASE WAGE $56,500-$64,975
JOB TYPE Full-Time
DESCRIPTION
The Senior Manager of ECE Effectiveness & Quality serves as an early care & education subject matter expert within the organization to ensure that our early care & education services are high quality for children and families within our community through implementation of best practices, alignment across programs to ensure consistent standards, and ongoing monitoring and continuous program improvement activities. This role supports the Vice President of Early Care & Education within the four bi-state early childhood education centers, the Home Child Care Network program, the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership, the Prevention Initiative, Illinois Department of Early Childhood (IDEC) Home Visiting, and the Illinois Smart Start Apprenticeship Program.
We are passionate about building and sustaining high quality working and learning environments for all children, families, staff, and our communities. We believe every member on our team exposes us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and to discover, design and deliver solutions.
As SAL Community Services' Senior Manager of ECE Effectiveness & Quality, you will have the opportunity for meaningful work including:
Program Quality:
- Provide support to day-to-day operations of early care and education programming to ensure effective and timely delivery high-quality services of all four early childhood education centers, the Home Child Care Network program, the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership, the Prevention Initiative, Illinois Department of Early Childhood Home Visiting, and the Illinois Smart Start Apprenticeship Program.
- Ensures organizational mission, vision, and values are consistent and aligned across all early care and education services and areas of impact.
- Supports coordination, alignment, and evaluation of early childhood education centers, the Home Child Care Network program, the Early Head Start Child Care Partnership, the Prevention Initiative, and Illinois Department of Early Childhood Home Visiting.
- Lead cross agency team to support enrollment initiatives as set forth by the Vice President of Early Care & Education
- Provide best-practice research and development on trends, training and implementation, licensing, accreditation, quality systems compliance, and strategic development of long-term practice changes that improve the quality of early education and care.
- Promote SAL Community Services early care and education programs in the community to drive strategic partnerships to meet community needs.
Compliance and Quality Assurance:
- Provide program support and guidance within quality and improvement standards as an early care & education subject matter expert.
- Ensure policies and procedures that promote best practices in early childhood education, family support, and program management are adhered to across early care and education services.
- Support planning, implementation and evaluation of practices impacted by licensing, accreditation and quality rating systems.
- Ensure all programs comply with federal, state, and local regulations, including agency contracts and grants and other relevant guidelines.
Apprenticeship Program Leadership:
- Provide leadership and oversight of Illinois Smart Start Apprenticeship Program and implementation of apprenticeship initiative within Iowa-based services.
- Provide management, supervision, and reflective practice support to Apprenticeship Mentor position.
- Act as agency liaison at local, state, and regional apprenticeship meetings, trainings, and outreach.
- Cultivate and recruit apprentices in alignment with apprenticeship program guidelines.
We are looking for an administrative team member who:
- Provides compassionate leadership and accountability across teams for high quality programming.
- Is passionate about building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all.
- Is innovative, strategic, and dedicated to contributing their skills and energy to a dynamic and growing mission-focused agency.
Salary, benefits and perks
Our entire compensation package includes paid time off and paid holidays; health, dental, and vision benefits; 401(k) with employer contribution; and pet insurance. A full list of benefits is available on our website at salcommunityservices.org.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. A full list of job responsibilities will be provided prior to an interview. This position must obtain required background clearances. Requests for reasonable accommodation as required under applicable law will be considered.
Education and Experience
Required: Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education or related field with a minimum of three years experience in an early care and education environment. Preferred: Master's Degree in Early Childhood Education, or related field with minimum of three years experience in an early care and education environment. Preference will be given to those with a combination of direct early education and care/school aged classroom experience and experience in management/administration in an early education and care/school aged program.
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
Mission
SAL Community Services (SAL) strengthens children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities.
About Us
At SAL Community Services, we provide Support, Advocacy, and Learning in our communities—from childhood to adulthood. Our mission is to strengthen children, families, and individuals to build and enhance thriving communities. Founded in 1970, we have a history of listening to the needs of our community and responding. We have grown from an organization focused on providing quality child care to low-income working families to one that meets a wide variety of needs, from early care and education to crisis assistance and stabilization services. Today, SAL has a bi-state 17 county regional footprint from the Quad Cities to Central Illinois area. We advocate with and for the people we support, the communities we serve, and the solutions we champion, and we offer an inclusive, welcoming community for the people we serve—and our employees. Learn more on our website at www.salcommunityservices.org/about-us.
EOE STATEMENT SAL Community Services is an equal opportunity employer and believes in equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. Accordingly, all employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity. These decisions include recruitment, selection, promotion, transfer, discipline, compensation, benefits, training and other personnel actions involving persons in all job titles and shall occur without regard to actual or perceived race, creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), color, religion (or for requesting an accommodation for a religious belief), sex, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information (as defined in Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA)), military status or discharge status, veteran status, qualified disabled veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, transgenderism, marital status, citizenship status, familial status, physical or mental disability (or for requesting an accommodation for a disability), association with a disabled person(s), medical condition (including HIV or AIDS status, cancer related or genetic characteristics) arrest record (unless doing so violates contractual, funding, or licensing requirements), order of protection status, pregnancy (including conditions related to childbirth or breast feeding), homelessness or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
LOCATION SAL Community Services Administration Office/ Moline, IL
EXEMPT/NON-EXEMPT Exempt
