Childcare Center Manager

Job Title: Childcare Center Manager

Department: Business - Childcare

FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt

Reports to: Chief of Staff

Compensation: $60,678-$71,010/year

Company Overview: Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School is a leader in Chinese Immersion education, achieving high levels of academic and organizational success. Our diverse and inclusive community reaches far beyond the walls of our building. At Yu Ying teachers, staff and families are collaborators, who together, are raising the next generation of culturally fluent and well-rounded global citizens.

Position Overview: We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Childcare Center Manager to lead our childcare program. This role is responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring compliance with OSSE regulations, and creating a safe, nurturing, and high-quality environment for students.

The Childcare Center Manager supervises and develops a team of childcare staff, leads curriculum and program implementation, and designs professional development to support strong social-emotional and developmental outcomes for students. This role also partners closely with families and school staff, fostering a supportive and responsive childcare experience aligned with the school’s mission.

The ideal candidate brings strong leadership, organizational, and compliance expertise, along with a passion for early childhood development and team growth.

You will drive Yu Ying’s mission, vision and team’s success by:

• Owning all aspects of the OSSE guidelines, to ensure that the program remains compliant; this includes tracking trainings, maintaining staff and student records, and supporting with regular updates in DELLT (Division of Early Learning Licensing Tool)  


• Managing a team that includes 3 full-time and 1 part-time/On-call staff members, which may expand as the program grows.

• Creating and implementing a yearly training plan for the childcare team. You will ensure that child care teachers have the tools to meet the social emotional needs of all students across all childcare age groups. 


• Leading curriculum development and practices 


• Fostering the growth of child care teachers, allowing them to better meet the academic and social emotional needs of students.


• Demonstrating an ability to provide strong, empathetic leadership to communicate with the families, who are our very own staff, that is reflective of our school’s values and mission. 


• Providing and identifying continuous high-quality professional development for the staff based upon identified needs and interests, and tracking training hours as required by OSSE 


• Demonstrating expertise in creating, implementing, executing and evaluating standard operating procedures for the program.


• Supporting walkthroughs and monitoring visits from OSSE and other external partner agencies.

Required Qualifications:

• Associate degree in Early Childhood Education or an Associate Degree with greater than or equal to 12 credit hours in ECE; or 60 hours of collegelevel coursework with greater than or equal to 12 credit hours in ECE


• At least one year of experience in a Childcare center leadership role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree or Higher in Early Childhood Education or a related field


• CDA or equivalent Early Childhood care certification


• 1+ years of experience as a Childcare Center Manager, Assistant Manager, Assistant Director, or Director. 

Benefits Package:

Generous Paid Time Off

• 20 Vacation Days


• 10 Sick/Personal Days


• 11 Federal Holidays

Insurance Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare option


• Dependent Coverage


• FSA/HSA Options


• 100% Company Covered Life Insurance Option


• Short & Long term Disability Insurance


• Fully covered Dental Coverage

Work-Life Balance Assistance

• Public Transit Assistance


• Staff Preference Enrollment in Yu Ying


• On-Site Daycare (3 months - 3 years old)


• Professional Development Opportunities


• Annual Bonus Opportunities/Monetary Rewards


• 3% 401K Match

Terms of Employment:

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive. Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential responsibilities of the job.

Unless reasonable accommodation(s) can be made, while performing this job, the staff member shall:

• Use physical strength to lift, move, carry, pull or push equipment and/or student(s).


• Sit, stand, walk, and run for required periods of time.


• Speak and hear.


• Use close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception along with the ability to focus vision.


• Communicate effectively in English, using proper grammar and vocabulary.


• Reach with hands and arms and use hands and fingers to handle objects and operate tools, computers and/or controls. 

Environmental Demands:

The environmental demands described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential responsibilities of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive.

• Exposure to a variety of childhood and adult diseases and illnesses.


• Occasional exposure to a variety of weather conditions.


• Exposure to heated/air-conditioned and ventilated facilities.


• Exposure to a building in which a variety of chemical substances are used for cleaning, instruction, and/or operation of equipment.


• Function in a workplace with a high level of noises at times.

* Washington Yu Ying PCS reserves the right to change and update policies, procedures, protocols and this job description/agreement and any addenda as needed. Employees will be notified in a timely manner of such changes by email or in staff meetings and provided an updated copy of this job description/agreement