At Camden Hill Montessori our mission is to create a learning environment that will prepare children to reach their full potential through exploration and curiosity and with their imaginations. We embrace individual differences and personalize learning for each child, fostering development through hands-on experience. Moreover, we nurture each spirit, giving each child the knowledge to make meaningful friendships and achieve future academic readiness.  We are seeking a Montessori Director to continue this mission as a vital part of our leadership team, responsible for ensuring quality education in our early childhood program.

• Manage and motivate staff, set high standards, and lead by example. Help improve and maintain the highest standards in each classroom and by each staff member.

• Understand parent needs, conduct tours, manage concerns, and maintain enrollment targets.

• Administratively present weekly reports, track metrics, and monitor center budget.

• Provide supervision for decision making related to student admissions into agency programs.

• Train, equip, and educate other staff members concerning the culture of care of the agency

• Monitor, collect and evaluate quality of program; and

• Understand and be able to utilize the following skill sets: 

  • Enforce Accountability

  • Perspective taking of patient, staff, and families

  • Effective Demonstration and  Implementation of necessary initiatives

  • Model Professional Behavior

  • Critical and Collaborative Problem Solving

• Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Education, Business Management or other related field preferred. Appropriate credentials required by state and affiliations, Director Certificates, preferable. Willingness to attain AMS or AMI certifications.

• A minimum of 2 years in a Director or Assistant Director role in a pre-school, montessori, or other related environment. Preferably eight years of service work in the childcare/school settings. 

• Familiarity with a wide variety of effective education options and able to develop, implement and monitor those options in practice. 

• Comfort in working with students who may have behavioral, social and communicative difficulties and therapists working on site.

• Analytical and problem-solving and multi-tasking abilities

• Communicates clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, establishes and maintains long-term customer relationships, building trust and respect by consistently meeting and exceeding expectations.

WHY YOU WILL LOVE WORKING AT CAMDEN HILL:

• Generous benefit Package
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability
• Company Paid- Life Insurance
• 401K with company match
• Company Paid Short-Term Disability
• HSA and FSA options
• Paid Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Employee Recognition