Pioneer Pre-school Hiring for Lead Preschool Teacher Job at Portland, OR Full Time

Pioneer Pre-school is recruiting for a Lead Teacher position to join our team. Pioneer Pre-school is an Equal Opportunity Employer that actively supports workforce diversity and equity in childcare and early education. For additional information about us, please visit www.pioneerpre-school.com

Job Summary
The Lead Teacher develops strong nurturing relationships with children and families. The desired candidate must excel in the following requirements, including but not limited to:

• Provide quality partnerships for family engagement in each child’s learning.
• Provide children with love, care, and developmentally appropriate guidance.
• Supervisory role to teacher’s assistants, teacher’s aids, and other staff as required.

Specific Duties Include

• Provide for children’s safety, guidance, and educational development.
• Work directly with children individually, in small groups, and large groups.
• Understand and implement positive child guidance procedures. Provide classroom management and facilitate social and emotional development of children by using our program policies and procedures.
• Create and maintain an environment that reflects the values and culture of the diverse children and families we serve.
• Work assigned schedule; exhibit regular and predictable attendance without tardiness.
• Must relate in a positive, nurturing way and be sensitive to the needs of children, parents, and co-workers.

Other Responsibilities

• This job description describes the general nature and level of work. May be assigned other related duties as required.
• Potty assistance as needed

Minimum Qualifications

• Step 5 or higher in the Oregon Registry, or
• Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, or related field, such as Social Science or Psychology
• Criminal background check, or willing to obtain upon hire
• Food Handler’s, or willing to obtain upon hire
• CPR certification, or willing to obtain upon hire
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, and computer proficiency.
• Ability to apply the understanding of developmentally appropriate activities for children. Promote social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development needs of all children.
• Ability to multi- task, make sound judgments and demonstrate appropriate role modeling.
• Ability to work as a team member and to be self-directed.
• Ability to provide and model best practice and to facilitate team development.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift/carry up to 50 lbs. a distance of 10 feet.
• Sufficient mobility and range of motion to perform repetitive standing, walking, balancing, stooping, bending, crouching, crawling, sitting on the floor, reaching, squatting, kneeling, and twisting for up to 8 hours per day.
• Ability to react quickly to the physical actions of children.
• Sufficient vision and hearing to perform job duties.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Salary:
$25.00 – $28.00 DOE

Benefits:

• Paid Holidays
• Paid Vacation
• Paid Sick Leave
• Child Care benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development assistance

Schedule:

Monday – Thursday
7:45 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $25.00 – $28.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift
• Day shift

Work Location: In person