Lil Coasters and MTP Childcare Manager

Location: Mount Pleasant,South Carolina,United States

Hours: Full time, 40 hours

Location: Mount Pleasant

This position reports to: Director of Seacoast Kidscoast Ministry 
The mission: Seacoast Church goes all out in our mission to help others Find God, Grow their Faith, Discover their Purpose, and Make a Difference. Our Lil Coasters and MTP Childcare Manager is passionate about the planning, organizing, and coordinating our childcare ministries and are committed to providing a safe and nurturing environment for the children entrusted to our care.

Key Responsibilities

• Lil Coasters Responsibilities
• Leading Team
  • Plan, oversee, and evaluate all components of Lil Coasters; ensuring a standard of excellence in staffing, curriculum and childcare.
  • Create a positive, fun and joyful atmosphere among children, parents and staff.
  • Recruit and select staff in accordance with applicable laws to meet appropriate staff to child ratios and in alignment with program budget.
  • Develop and implement orientation program for all new childcare staff (Little Coasters and evening childcare) ensuring full understanding of Seacoast policies and procedures and guidelines.
  • Conduct regular training and development sessions and coordinate periodic evaluations for staff.
  • Plan lessons and oversee their implementation providing coaching and direction to staff.
  • Build volunteer team for Preschool Kids Camp (approximately 125 children attend daily).
• A Calling to Serve
  • Act as a liaison between Little Coasters staff and parents.
  • Oversee the check-in/check-out procedure and ensure security protocols are being met; Greet parents, pay special attention to specific needs, and develop relationship of trust.
  • Leads tours with prospective families, highlighting key features about the program with exceptional customer service.
  • Regularly communicates with families regarding childs progress.
  • Practice continued quality improvement by evaluating classrooms and programs and implementing change as needed.
  • Available to respond to emergency or urgent situations involving childrens health and safety in a calm a decisive manner; Administer first-aid as needed.
• Administrative Duties
  • Manage team in Paycom, approve all timecards prior to payroll in timely fashion, and manage Payroll budget.
  • Purchase equipment and supplies for the classrooms, reconcile expenses monthly.
  • Responsible for accident/incident reporting (including following up).
  • Medication management.
  • Plans/Conducts quarterly emergency safety drills.
  • Schedule staff and provide weekly encouragement during staff weekly huddle.
  • Participate in monthly All Staff sessions, but be responsible for scheduling All Staff Childcare and overseeing the quality of the experience.
  • Ensures the physical environment and health/safety standards are in full compliance with local and state licensing regulations even though licensing is not required.
  • Schedule registration for special events (All Staff, ARC, etc.) using MinPlat and Espace.
• MTP Childcare
• Oversee Childcare Needs for MTP Events & Programs
  • Plan, oversee, and evaluate all components of the Childcare Ministry ensuring a standard of excellence in staffing, curriculum and childcare.
  • Recruit and select staff in accordance with applicable laws to meet appropriate staff to child ratios.
  • Lead and collaborates with childcare staff in designing and implementing appropriate programs and activities.
  • Work closely with the Care and Connect Teams to provide childcare for morning and evening programs, as well as small groups (schedule childcare workers, set up events in MinPlat and Espace, and oversee all aspects of the childcare experience).
  • Schedule spaces Little Coasters will use for programs using Espace.
  • Acts as Liaison between childcare staff and Seacoast ministries.
  • Develop an associate to take leadership during childcare events empowering them to oversee check-in/check-out; greet parents; available to respond to emergencies and administering first-aid as needed.
• Administrative Duties
  • Responsible for accident/incident reporting (including following up).
  • Manage team in Paycom, approve all timecards prior to payroll, and manage payroll budget.
  • Partner with Small Group & Care Ministries to manage events in Ministry Platform to ensure adequare schedule of staff/volunteers for all events

Job Essentials

• Christ Follower (As a religious organization Seacoast Church makes hiring decisions that are aligned to our faith and beliefs)