About

• Description
• Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in children’s lives? Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning, where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.

Full-time employees receive

• Competitive Pay
• Generous PTO
• 13 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision and MORE
• Meeting Street is currently looking for an Assistant Director of Early Childhood Programs for 40 hours per week.

Duties

• Oversees all monitoring, accreditations, licensing, and programmatic requirements in accordance with all applicable federal, state and agency policies, procedures, and regulations to ensure quality control of all programs.
• Provides leadership and direct support of day-to-day operations, including growth, and direct service delivery.
• Maintains program statistics and monitors the effectiveness of and participation in programs, ensuring that program standards are met, and safety procedures are followed
• Has regulatory familiarity with all programs that fall under their leadership.
• Does Continuous Quality Improvement with programs to ensure high performance.
• Partners with Director of Early Childhood Programs in developing and implementing strategic initiatives, annual budgets and marketing plans related to early childhood programs.
• Analyzes quarterly and annual workforce data for emerging trends, current barriers, and demographic breakdowns to ensure quality early childhood service delivery in RI and MA.
• Supports grant requirements, RFP’s and MOA’s for all programs as needed.
• Represents organization through participation on local, state, and national committees, tasks forces, and boards. Develops collaborative relationships with community partners to enhance delivery of comprehensive services to children and families.
• Builds relationships with universities to provide internship, consulting, and research opportunities.
• Provides regular supervision to Early Childhood Managers.
• Identifies growth opportunities in the Early Childhood field.

• Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community’s future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence. To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.

• It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, transfer and promote employees, and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration, education and training programs, and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual preference or orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin or ancestry, legally recognized disability, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, military status, socioeconomic background, homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion, retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.

• Learn more about us at https://www.meetingstreet.org
• Requirements
• Five years managerial experience in an early childhood educational or comparable professional setting; leadership experience preferred.
• Master’s Degree in a professional discipline preferred.
• CPR and first aid certifications.
• Availability and willingness to work outside typical business hours for admissions’ events and family meetings/outreach
• Sit, stand and walk continuously during the workday
• Bend, stoop, squat, push and pull occasionally (1 – 33% of the time)
• Lift/carry up to 10 pounds occasionally (1 – 33% of the time)
• Operate office equipment occasionally (1 – 33% of the time)
• Use computer constantly (67 – 100% of the time)
• Office environment, classroom environment at agency and partner agencies