Eliada Homes, Inc.
Location
Asheville, North Carolina
The Group Leader is responsible for designing and implementing activity plans and ensuring the physical, emotional, and educational needs of children are met. They maintain classroom records, ensure licensing and safety standards are upheld, and communicate regularly with parents and staff.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or GED and 7 clock hours of school age program training. Experience in a licensed school age program or camp setting is strongly preferred.
Market context
In North Carolina, temporary summer school-age leader roles often see demand from programs that need staff for seasonal enrollment and extended-day coverage. These roles are competitive because employers usually prefer candidates with licensed school-age or camp experience, along with the required age, diploma or GED, and training. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits on this platform to save research time, and confirm your 7 clock hours of school-age program training before applying.
Group Leader assumes primary role in designing and implementing activity plans, record keeping, care and supervision of children in the classroom, communicating with parents and administrative staff. Group Leader ensures that all daily functions of the classroom are carried out to reflect agency’s mission and philosophy, current licensing standards, and high standards for overall quality of care and services provided.
1. Ensures that a child’s physical, emotional, and educational needs are met through: visual supervision and observation of the group; one-on-one interactions with individual children; regular communication with parents, care-givers and other staff; and working with parents and support agencies to devise individual education plans for children with special needs. 2. Writes and implements daily/weekly plan for children in the classroom. 3. Ensures that necessary classroom records and documentation are kept current, organized, on file, and posted. 4. Ensures, through communication with administrative staff, that licensing, safety, and sanitation standards are maintained in the classroom. 5. Provides leadership by acting as a positive role model for assistant group leader and creates professional climate for carrying out the daily operations of the classroom.
1. Seeks opportunities to further education and attends all relevant training necessary to meet annual in-service requirements. 2. Accepts additional duties and responsibilities as assigned by School Age Program Coordinator. 3. Ensures the provision of quality services to clients through participation in the agency's PQI process. 4. Displays competence & responsiveness to cultural differences present in both customer & employee populations. 5. Position requires swimming activities to remain in ratio with children 6. Supervision required when on off campus field trips.
Reporting Relationship: Supervisor: School Age Program Coordinator
Must have 7 clock hours of school age program training. High school diploma or GED required. Prefer 2 semester hours in child and youth development, school age programming, or child care administration from an accredited college or university. Knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices in school age classrooms.
Must be at least 18 years of age; at least one year’s experience in a licensed school age program or camp setting is strongly preferred.
Excellent verbal and written skills for communicating effectively with co-workers, parents, and visitors. Level of physical fitness that allows group leader to keep pace with school age children.
*This position is seasonal, it will run from June 2nd - August 14th, possibility of transferring to FT position based on job performance, good standing, and other factors.
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