Child Care Center Teacher (0079619T, 0080702T, 0096648T)

Posting number: 2026-00013

Department: University of Hawai'i at Manoa - OVPSS - University of Hawai'i at Manoa Children's Center

Job classification: STUDENT SUPPORT

Posting type: Open

Categories: Teacher

Summary

Title: Child Care Center Teacher

Position Number: 0079619T, 0080702T, 0096648T

Hiring Unit: OFC OF VP FOR STUDENT SUCCESS, STUDENT CO-CURRICULAR SUCCESS, CHILDREN'S CENTER

Location: UH at Manoa

Date Posted: 01/23/26

Closing Date: Continuous; Review of applications will begin on February 11, 2026 and will continue until the positions are filled.

Band: A

Salary : salary schedules and placement information

Full Time/Part Time: Full-time

Month: 11-month

Temporary/Permanent: Temporary

Duties and Responsibilities (* denotes essential functions)

1. *Maintains a high standard of professional and ethical conduct that complies with all established university and center policies.

2. *Provides supervision, care, education, protection, and engagement at all times with a group of young children that complies with current licensing and accreditation standards, and established center policies.

3. *Maintains daily childcare routines (e.g., diapering, hand washing, transitions) and all established UHMCC procedures in a caring, hygienic manner consistent with appropriate child development principles.

4. *Adjusts communication approach and messaging to support a language-, cultural-, and ability-diverse community that includes administrators, colleagues, children and their families.

5. *Collaborates with families to develop individual care and learning plans for each child that presents developmentally appropriate challenges to promote the individual physical, intellectual, emotional and social wellbeing and growth within the context of that child's life.

6. *Establishes and maintains positive, collaborative relationships with families that encourages sharing of concerns, and celebrates their child's accomplishments.

7. *Establishes and maintains positive, collaborative, professional, mutually respectful relationships with colleagues at all times.

8. *Demonstrates a practical understanding of the UHMCC Universal Teaching Practices, and regularly implements each practice in a small group setting.

9. *Demonstrates a practical understanding of the Braided Curriculum, and provides each child with full access to the entire curriculum throughout the year.

10. *Demonstrates a practical understanding of child development and an ability to conduct and appropriately use assessments of child progress patterns to develop individualized care and learning plans with families.

11. *Demonstrates a practical understanding of classroom design in a developmentally appropriate, welcoming, and engaging manner that incorporates a variety of materials in sufficient quantity to implement the defined unit plan for all children in that classroom.

12. Ensures that families regularly receive adequate and meaningful information about their child's experiences and growth over time through daily contacts, semi-annual parent conferences, individualized child portfolios, and written communication.

13. Supports family engagement by providing opportunities for families to participate in classroom activities; provides transitional space for children and families to enter and leave the classroom; provides family networking activities and other types of activities that enhance the care and learning experience for both the child and their family.

14. Documents curriculum experiences in the classroom environment and on weekly newsletters to families and staff.

15. Plans and implements appropriately detailed unit plans that adequately describe key activities that progressively develop specific learning objectives.

16. Provides care and comfort to young children as needed, which may require lifting and carrying children of up to 50 pounds in weight intermittently throughout the day.

17. Maintains outdoor learning spaces, and additional spaces and materials shared with other classrooms, in a manner that is safe, reasonably clean and orderly, developmentally appropriate to all children engaged in the space, and aesthetically pleasing.

18. Actively participates in staff meetings and reviews all meeting support materials.

19. Actively participates and completes all required program training.

20. Develops and implements an individual professional development plan in collaboration with program administratio