Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for a qualified, caring Infant Lead Teacher for our large, non-profit, Accredited Early Learning Center. Sign-On Bonus Offered!
Family ACCESS offers a collegial, supportive atmosphere where teachers are respected as professionals. We value parents as partners, see children as capable and consider teachers both researchers and facilitators.
Family ACCESS Lead Teachers enjoy:
- An 8 hour work day rotating between 7:45 - 3:45, 8:15 - 5:15, and 10:15 - 6:15 schedules
- Ability to create their own curriculum with the classroom team
- Weekly planning time with classroom team
- Opportunities for growth inside and outside the classroom
We are looking for Lead Teachers who want to be a part of our vibrant learning community where joy, creativity, and meaningful relationships flourish. Qualifications we look for in our Lead Teachers include:
- EEC Lead Teacher certification
- Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education or in a related field, a plus (Experience may replace degree)
- Have experience working in the Early Education field as a Lead Teacher or a similar role in an educational environment that is inquiry and play based, emergent, challenging, warm, and inviting
- Effective and inclusive communicator and facilitator
- Value diversity and are joyful, curious, and respectful of differences in individuals, families, staff, and cultures
- Have the ability to bend, stand, squat, stoop, walk, occasionally run, and lift up to 35 pounds
Benefits
- Onsite paid professional development
- Comprehensive benefits package including: medical and dental insurance, flexible spending, retirement
- 11 paid holidays plus 17 days paid Earned Time Off (ETO) + paid week off during Agency closure in July and December
- Competitive salary with a sign-on bonus!
About Family ACCESS of Newton
Family ACCESS is a community-based non-profit organization that empowers and strengthens families through a set of four integrated programs: The Family ACCESS Early Learning Center, Family ACCESS Early Literacy Services, Family ACCESS Counseling and Consultation Services, and CAP Child Assault Prevention, a program of Family ACCESS. For over 100 years, the organization has served thousands of families, regardless of their economic status, from Newton and neighboring towns.
Family ACCESS of Newton is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity.