Current Employment Opportunity

    The Park West Co-Op Nursery School seeks an energetic and inspiring educational leader to serve as Director, starting in the 2021-2022 school year. This candidate should be passionate about the importance of early childhood education, familiar with licensing and administrative work needed to run a thoughtful preschool in an urban environment, educated in the competitive landscape, futuristic in their ideals about moving school and programming forward, comfortable as the lead for fundraising for a non-profit, skilled in collaborating with teachers with extensive experience in a co-teaching collaborative capacity, and willing to be a seen, available and warm presence at school daily. Ideally, the candidate could begin July 1, 2021.  Our current, retiring director, will continue on at school in a part-time role during the 2021-2022 school year, assisting in the orientation and transition process, as well as providing administrative continuity during the pandemic. 

The Director’s Role
The Director will specifically have the opportunity to lead the school in the following areas: 

Educational Leadership

Passion and joy for early childhood education should be palpable, and should emanate to staff, students and parents
Charged with, among other duties, 
the creation and management of teaching teams and the negotiations that managing teaching teams requires
the implementation of professional development programs;
the management of regular staff meetings; and 
the evaluation, analysis and direction of staff and classrooms.

Executive Management of School

Serve as the public face of the school, and in that capacity, will partake in social events, fundraising events, and maintain contact with alumni. 
Be committed to Park West’s goal of increasing diversity amongst staff and families. 
Actively engaged in publicity, marketing, admissions, and hiring.
An empathetic leader of school, with the ability to strategically plan for short and long term institutional growth, in collaboration with the Board of Directors.
Innovative,creative, energetic and inspirational problem-solver.

Parent Relations

Respect and hold true to Park West’s deep commitment to the home/school connection, as evidenced by it’s active Board of Directors, Committees, and requisite classroom assistance. 
Respect and be mindful of diversity amongst students and families, including race, culture, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, military discharge status, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws, as well as neuro differences amongst children and families. 
Support families in their early childhood educational process both prior to choosing and after graduating from Park West 

Office Administration

Have a working knowledge of ADP (payroll) and all aspects of Google Office, and be competent in using that, and other, technology to promote office efficiency.  
Comfortable collaborating on with the Board and working within the confines of an annual budget. 
Organized and punctual. 

School Fundraising

Embrace short and long term institutional growth and employ a strategic method to fundraising,
Day to day and long term management of existing and future funds.