Job Details
Title: Site Mentor
Performance Profile Source: Full-time (Non-Exempt) 40 hours/week
Reports to: Program Director
Primary Functions:
Responsible for ensuring a high quality, positive learning environment for children by mentoring After School and Camp Lead and Assistant Teachers , side-by-side onboarding, training, and professional development of teaching teams, bringing expertise in curriculum design and pedagogical best practice, and managing challenging behaviors in children.
Outstanding Child Experience
- Accountable for children experiencing a positive, supportive, child-centered, play-based learning environment
- Supports clear communication, organization, and planning around classroom schedules and calendars
- Prioritizes child safety in all aspects of program
- Ensures developmentally appropriate curricula that align with children s interests and reflects values of equity, diversity, and the children s home cultures and lived experiences
- Actively engages with children
- Builds positive, professional relationships with families
- Manages escalation of child and/or family support
- Ensures implementation and alignment of curriculum and child experience with the planning and expectations of the Program Directors
Leadership
- Mentors Lead Teachers and Assistant Teachers to ensure pedagogical best practices
- Actively plans for and supports Teachers learning and professional growth and goals
- Trains new Teachers in basic classroom activities, management, and daily logistics
- Schedules, plans, and runs room meetings
- Models a high level of professionalism, including direct communication, use of EQ skills, and maintaining confidentiality and boundaries
- Ensures compliance with pertinent regulations
- Contributes to performance evaluations for Teachers
- Supports HR best practices on their teaching teams
- Manages teaching team dynamics and crucial conversations
- Collaborates closely with the Program Director
Organizational Integrity
- Exemplifies and reinforces LASER's cultural values and high level of professionalism
- Maintains professional boundaries, confidentiality, and appropriate lines of communication
- Ensures Laser values and pedagogical best practices regarding curriculum and equity are reflected and implemented daily in the classrooms and in interactions with children and families
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree required
- Minimum four years of experience working with children in K-5
- Minimum two years of experience mentoring/in leadership role
- Be punctual, organized, consistent, and able to take initiative
- Demonstrated experience and passion for child development, child care advocacy and/or educational paradigms
- Reflective thinker who approaches challenging situation with a lens of inquiry, empathy, and curiosity
- Familiarity with DCYF licensing requirements
- Well-developed interpersonal and group skills, collaborative nature, outstanding communication skills
- Ability to maintain regular and reliable attendance
- Able to switch gears quickly and deal with multiple issues with consistent clarity and thoroughness
- Exhibits a high level of professionalism at all times, including in communication and boundary-setting
- Collaborates effectively with colleagues
- Maintains a disposition toward leadership development
- Open to feedback and seeks professional growth
- Willing to complete necessary continuing education credits per licensing requirements