An Cosan is currently seeking a talented EARLY YEARS MANAGER for our
WHITEHALL EARLY YEARS CENTRE. This role plays a critical part in the
day to day running and on-going development of the early years?
service.
The role requires an experienced early childhood professional who is
committed to providing top quality early childhood care and education
to children and families of all socio-economic backgrounds. The role
holder should be self motivated, with excellent communication skills
and extensive knowledge of the Early Years sector. They will also have
experience managing a team.
The Early Years manager will carry out all task related to the
management of the Early Years Services. They will be expected work
collaboratively with the Project Leader on the development of the
service and ensuring the service operates at break-even.
The successful candidate will be flexible, hardworking, a
multi-tasker, understand financial information and have experience
managing people.
If you enjoy providing quality early childhood care and education to
children and families and working as part of a team this position is
for you.
JOB TITLE: Early Years Manager
REPORTS TO: Early Years Project Leader
CONTRACT: Full time, Permanent
PROBATION: 6 months
LOCATION Whitehall, Dublin 9
AN COSAN
An Cos?n (Irish for ?The Path?) is Ireland?s largest community
education organisation. The mission of An Cos?n is to bring about
social equality and an end to poverty through community-based adult
education, the provision of early years supports, wrap around
counselling services, and empowering social enterprise development.
The early years department of An Cosan is significant in size with 7
services in total across Dublin City. Apart from the Whitehall
service, there are three services in Cabra and three services in
Tallaght. We use the HighScope Approach which is academically proven
to have significantly better outcomes for children, and we train our
educators in the implementation of this curriculum.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* To carry out the day-to-day management of the early years service
in accordance with the curriculum, policies, and procedures.
* To recruit, train, mentor, motivate and supervise all staff within
the early years service.
* To market the service to local families, maximise intake of
children and to operate a fair and transparent admissions policy.
* To build and maintain relationships with parents, communicate with
them individually and in groups to enable the sharing of information
about their child?s development and information about the service.
* Refer children and their families to outside agencies as
appropriate.
* To ensure full compliance of all record-keeping responsibilities
(both paper and soft copy) and to monitor and supervise the
record-keeping responsibilities of early years educators or other
administrators.
* To ensure the services? is compliant with all regulatory
responsibilities and prepare the service and team for any inspections,
including Tusla, Department of Education and Pobal.
* Be responsible for the services Health and Safety obligations
including but not limited to: food safety, fire safety and insurance
requirements.
* To carry responsibility for the services child protection
obligations as documented in ?Children First?
* To manage the finances of the service in collaboration with the
Project Leader and Finance Team to provide services to children and
their families in line with the services budget.
* To maintain the building in which the early years? service is
provided and to bring any issues with maintenance to the Project
Leaders attention.
* To liaise with the Project Leader and other relevant people as to
the status of the early years? service and to implement any
directives set by those people.
* To act as a positive role model to staff, parents, and children.
* To carry out any other responsibilities consistent with the role
of Early Years Manager as instructed by the Project Leader or members
of the senior management team.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND CORE COMPETENCIES
* Excellent people management skills
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to multitask
* Ability to hold responsibility and to take ownership
* Excellent communication skills
* Good report writing skills
* Ability to lead and motivate a team
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Ability to come up with new ideas or solutions to problems and to
influence the team to adopt these solutions
* Ability to be flexible and adapt to a new way of working
QUALIFICATION, EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
_ESSENTIAL_
* QQI Level 7 or above in Early Childhood Care and Education or
Equivalent
* At least three years? experience in early years management
* Experience in working in a medium sized team
* Working knowledge of the EY sector including funding schemes and
inspection requirements
* Working knowledge of early years policies and procedures
_DESIRABLE_
* Knowledge or qualification in HighScope
* Previous experience in the implementation of curriculum
* Previous experience in change management
* Previous experience or a qualification in mentoring
APPLICATION PROCESS
SEND COMPLETED APPLICATION FORM AND CV TO **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE** BY
5TH OF JANUARY **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**.
INTERVIEWS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CARRIED OUT ON THE WEEK OF THE **APPLY
ON THE WEBSITE**TH OF JANUARY.
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
