Job Description
Summary Join a university-based early learning program with more than 75 years of excellence!!!
Hoosier Courts Nursery School is a cherished center that has advocated for young children and families on the Indiana University Bloomington campus since 1948. The Center has been NAEYC accredited since its inception and has three classrooms providing programming for children ages 3-5 years.
Hoosier Courts Nursery School is searching for a new Director. In addition to the day-to-day leadership of a thriving early childhood program, the director will have the exciting opportunity to shape the future of Hoosier Courts Nursery School as it expands it?s programming to include a mixed-age infant/toddler classroom in August 2026.
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Duties Department-Specific Responsibilities - Inspires others to create high-quality programming in each classroom while managing the center's day-to-day operations.
- Builds strong partnerships with teachers and families to nurture each child's individual development as a foundation for future success while incorporating the IUB ECES mission, culture, and philosophy to build and maintain an engaging environment for children, families, and staff.
- Communicates with families, staff, partners, and licensing to provide exemplary customer service, all while conducting the daily responsibilities of operating the center, including budget construction and oversight, enrollment, meeting licensing, Paths to Quality, and NAEYC accreditation requirements, and staff and facility scheduling and management.
- Engages in leadership and management
- Guides the center as it transitions one of its preschool classrooms to a multi-age infant and toddler classroom.
- Establishes a welcoming work environment where trust, respect, growth, and belonging are foundational.
- Develops and maintains personnel policies and procedures in collaboration with the IUB ECES Director, Center Directors and IUHR.
- Ensures an environment that welcomes and nurtures all children, families and staff.
- Oversees creative, wholistic, developmentally appropriate curriculum that encompasses the departmental child-centered philosophy.
- Conducts Annual Program Evaluations (with staff and families).
- Develops the annual Plan of Action from results.
- Responds to all communications in a timely, respectful, professional manner.
- Provides regular updates and communications about the Center in general.
- Represents the Center in a professionally positive manner to past/current/potential families and employees, the University, Bloomington community, state, and nationally.
- Manages staff
- Recruits, hires, supervises, mentors, and counsels all full and part time staff.
- Ensures adequate staffing and effective scheduling.
- Ensures new staff are oriented and informed of expectations and standards.
- Oversees enrollment initiatives
- Oversees waitlist, inquiries, tours, and enrollment.
- Oversees new family introductions to the program.
- Ensures classrooms have access to applicable family information (i.e. contact, history, etc).
- Investigates and responds to family concerns in a timely, respectful manner.
- Oversees financial operations
- Serves as the Account Manager for the Center accounts (general, grants, and foundation).
- Develops annual budget and maintains operations within budget guidelines.
- Maintains billing, deposits, electronic payment claims, cash control and accountability/reconciliation procedures.
- Oversees all Center purchases in accordance of IU policies, through IU financial systems, including but not limited to Buy.IU, Procurement Cards, internal billing, etc.
- Oversees and assures funding, spending, and reconciliation in correlation with specific grant requirements.
- Oversees compliance
- Knows, understands and ensures the Center meets Indiana State Child Care Licensing Regulations.
- Knows, understands and ensures the Center meets Indiana Paths to Quality Requirements.
- Knows, understands and ensures the Center meets Child and Adult Care Food Program Requirements.
- Knows, understands and ensures the Center meets NAEYC Accreditation standards and criteria.
General Responsibilities - Provides day-to-day operational management of childcare staff.
- Establishes short-term operational objectives.
- Identifies operational issues and/or areas of improvement and implements solutions to improve processes and/or operational efficiency.
- Analyzes, monitors, and evaluates performance of assigned staff; establishes work priorities, conducts performance reviews, and provides corrective action as needed.
- Ensures adequate staffing and effective scheduling; participates and informs employment decisions for assigned staff.
- Provides direct supervision and oversight of assigned staff and activities; impacts, and is held accountable for, the performance of team and/or assigned staff.
- Ensures and provides training to assigned staff to improve childcare operations; researches and identifies development opportunities for assigned staff.
- Researches and stays up-to-date on new industry childcare standards, best practices, and emerging technology; keeps next-level leader(s) informed of trends as well as significant problems.
Requirements EDUCATION Required - Bachelor's degree in education, early childhood education, or a related field
WORK EXPERIENCE Required - 2 years of experience in education or a related field
SKILLS Required - Proficient communication skills
- Maintains a high degree of professionalism
- Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills
- Demonstrates a high commitment to quality
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent collaboration and team building skills
- Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback
- Instills commitment to organizational goals
Nice To Haves Preferred - Master's degree in early childhood education, management, or a related field
Preferred - 3 years of experience in early childhood education, specifically ages 0-5
- 1 year of early learning administrative experience
Benefits For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
- Health savings account with generous IU contributions
- Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- Basic group life insurance paid by IU
- Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
- Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
- Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
- Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
- 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
- Generous paid time off plans
- Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
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