Knowledge

• 1a. Understands basic management philosophy, goals, objectives, and organizational values.
  
• 1b. Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and regulatory standards.
  
• 1c. Informed about the legal issues that affect programs including regulatory standards, employment laws, anti-discrimination laws, disability laws, child abuse and neglect laws, confidentiality laws, labor laws, custody and family laws that apply to program operation and potential risk management issues.
  
• 1d. Knowledge of time management techniques.
  
• 1e. Understands basic organizational planning techniques that promote long-term success and accountability within an organization.
  
• 1f. Understands basic child growth and development theory and philosophy and its implications for program design and operation.
  
• 1g. Understands applicable accreditation standards: i.e. NAEYC, NCCA, TEA, and other religious and/or private program accreditors.
  
• 1h. Identifies record-keeping needs and techniques.
  
• 1i. Understands ethical issues, conduct, and standards.
  
• 1j. Identifies components of successful marketing assessment processes and development of marketing plans.
  
• 1k. Describes the role and responsibilities of a board and how to recruit, train and work with a board.
  
• 1l. Knowledge of affects and process of change.
  
• 1m. Understands basic organizational management techniques that build teamwork and provide for the meaningful participation of staff and families in the organizational structure.

Skills

• 1a. Demonstrates the ability to write a management philosophy that includes a mission statement and organizational objectives that reflect the organization’s values.
  
• 1b. Applies federal, state, and local regulatory standards to program operations.
  
• 1c. Develops program policies and implements procedures that reflect knowledge of the laws governing programs and employs risk management procedures that reflect knowledge of liability issues.
  
• 1d. Applies a system to identifying tasks and prioritizing their completion to reflect reasonable schedules and timelines.
  
• 1e. Creates a business or program plan that utilizes strategic planning and incorporates feedback mechanisms for clients and employees on a ongoing basis.
  
• 1f. Sets program goals and implements procedures for parents, children and personnel that reflect basic child growth and development.
  
• 1g. Complies with applicable accreditation standards.
  
• 1h. Demonstrates the ability to maintain records: i.e. staff, children, financial, etc.
  
• 1i. Interprets and applies ethical standards.
  
• 1j. Develops and implements a center marketing plan.
  
• 1k. Develops a plan for recruiting, training, and working with a board.
  
• 1l. Demonstrates ability to effectively manage change.
  
• 1m. Implements staff, program, and classroom activities that utilize teambuilding activities and provides for meaningful work by staff in families in program operations.

 

Knowledge

• 2a. Understands basic business budgeting.
• 2b. Understands basic accounts payable bookkeeping practices.
• 2c. Understands basic accounts receivable bookkeeping practices.
• 2d. Understands basic accounting reporting formats and their role in year-end budgetary analysis and planning.
• 2e. informed about federal, state, and local subsidy structures for early childhood services.
• 2f. Describes fundraising strategies.
• 2g. Knowledge of compensation structures that support staff recruitment and retention and promote increased knowledge and skill of staff.
• 2h. Understands purchasing procedures.
  
• 2i. Knowledge of industry specific budgetary issues and their impact on program operation and design including staff scheduling and hours of operation, enrollment plans, sliding scale/discounting, and professional development costs.

Skills:

• 2a. Establishes and works successfully within a budget.
• 2b. Manages disbursement for payroll, taxes, equipment, supplies and petty cash.
• 2c. Plans and manages for the collection of fees and tuition.
• 2d. Demonstrates the ability to maintain accurate records of income and expenditures, prepare monthly reports, annual reports and utilize these in the development of a new fiscal budget.
• 2e. Demonstrates planning for the management and record keeping of government subsidy programs.
• 2f. Demonstrates the ability to plan and manage fundraising events and evaluate.
• 2g. Develops a salary/benefit schedule compensation structure that reflects additional compensation for increased knowledge and skills.
• 2i. Implements staff policies, enrollment plans, discounts/sliding fees policies and professional development support policies that reflect consideration for basic child growth and developments needs, and the health and safety of children and staff.

Knowledge:

• 3a. Understands the role of health.
• 3b. Understands and identify health and safety aspects in the indoor and outdoor environments.
• 3c. Describes aspects of the physical plant management.
• 3d. Understands applicable codes.
• 3e. Describes security and emergency procedures.
• 3f. Understands the state minimum standards.

Skills:

• 3a. Plan and implement programs health and nutrition, component, integrating community health services with program services.
• 3b. Assess and monitors the health and safety aspects of the indoor and outdoor environments.
• 3c. Maintains the physical plant managing custodial care and repair services.
• 3d. Establishes procedures to maintain compliance with all applicable codes – fire, occupational safety, sanitation, building and zoning.
• 3e. Establishes procedures to maintain compliance with all applicable standards.

Knowledge:

• 4a. Knowledge of recruitment and retention factors, policies and procedures.
• 4b. Identify job roles and responsibilities.
• 4c. Describes essential components of personnel policies.
• 4d. Describe essential components of a staff handbook.
• 4e. Describe essential components of staffing schedules and consistency of care.
• 4f. Knowledge of staff assessment procedures. 4g. Understands needs of cohesive staff team.
• 4h. Understands the role of staff meetings.
• 4i. Describes effective staff communication skills and methods.
• 4j. Describes interviewing, hiring, and termination procedures.

Skills:

• 4a. Promotes and supports recruitment and retention of diverse staff.
• 4b. Prepares job descriptions for each position.
• 4c. Formulates and implements personnel.
• 4d. Prepares, uses, and regularly revises a staff handbook.
• 4e. Plans enrollment patterns, involves staff in scheduling decisions, and ensures continuity and consistency of care.
• 4f. Provides continuous assessment of staff development needs including initial orientation, in-service, goal setting, observation, supervision, and professional development.
• 4g. Provides time for staff to meet to discuss their work with children and families.
• 4h. Demonstrates ability to conduct staff meetings for a variety of purposes.
• 4i. Demonstrates written and verbal communication skill and methods.
• 4j. Demonstrates interviewing, hiring and termination procedures.

Knowledge:

• 5a. Knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice.
• 5b. Knowledge of culturally and community relevant curriculum.
• 5c. Explains curriculum collaboration among staff.
• 5d. Knowledge of inclusive environments for children, families, and staff.
• 5e. Knowledge of developmentally appropriate indoor and outdoor environments.
• 5f. Knowledge of short and long-range program planning and assessment.

Skills:

• 5a. Plans with teachers and supports their implementation of developmentally appropriate teaching and care-giving practices.
• 5b. Plans with teachers and supports their implementation of culturally and community relevant curriculum materials that addresses the needs of all children and families.
• 5c. Promotes curriculum collaboration and mutual sharing of ideas and materials among staff.
• 5d. Addresses the individual and special needs of children, families and staff members.
• 5e. Ensures developmentally appropriate space, design, and arrangement for indoor and outdoor environments.
• 5f. Plans and implements ongoing program assessment.

Knowledge:

• 6a. Identify methods of involved families in their child’s program.
• 6b. Describes ways in which staff and parents effectively communicate to support mutual decision-making.
• 6c. Identifies policies that support child-parent transitions and separation.
• 6d. Describes essential components of a parent handbook.
• 6e. Explains importance of orienting families to the program.
• 6f. Understands families’ expectations and goals for their children.
• 6g. Indentifies agencies and referral procedures for families and children.

Skills:

• 6a. Provides for a variety of ways that families can be involved in their child’s program.
• 6b. Develop systems, both formal and informal, in which communication between staff and parents is encouraged and supported to facilitate ongoing information sharing and joint decision-making.
• 6c. Institutes policies that support child-parent transitions and separation.
• 6d. Prepares, uses, and regularly revises a parent handbook.
• 6e. Develop orientation procedure for families. 6f. Demonstrate methods of gaining knowledge of families’ expectations and goals for their children.
• 6g. Gather information of agencies and their referral procedures.