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Childcare Co-Lead Teacher

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Title Childcare Co-Lead Teacher Posting Number S00978JP Department Childrens Center Job Summary
The Childcare Co-Lead Teacher position at Bowdoin College Children’s Center offers early childcare professionals a dynamic opportunity to work in a college campus center with staff who provide care to children in a professional atmosphere. The climate at the Children’s Center leads our staff toward calm, organized, and engaged work with children and each other.
Our teams work collaboratively and in consort with each other meeting weekly to discuss practices and concerns as well as meeting weekly to plan curriculum for the children. Our practices are driven by training on addressing children’s emotional needs to bring learning and growth through attachment and secure relationships. Our nature-based programs focus on generous amounts of uninterrupted outside time for children to play, explore, and experiment. All of this work is in the context of a NAEYC accredited center that is deeply and actively engaged in anti-bias and anti-racist work offered by consultants and professional development trainings throughout the year to support our growth as individuals and a staff.
The Childcare Co-Lead Teacher has the primary responsibility of ensuring the safety and well-being of all the children in the program and to support the mission and philosophy of the Center, while providing a nurturing environment and developmentally appropriate curriculum that meets the needs of young children in all domains. In the infant and toddler program we practice continuity of care for the first three years of a child’s life. This entails building relationships with families as well as children that will be sustained for this three-year journey. The preschool program offers children a two-year continuity of care model as well. Co-leads mentor members of their team, student teachers, interns, and student employees and have opportunities to develop presentation skills participating in Center-offered workshops and conferences.

COVID -19 Considerations for The Children’s Center: Bowdoin College is committed to keeping our team members and the children in our care as safe as possible. Learn more about all of our important safety measures here:https://www.bowdoin.edu/covid-19/index.html
  • This is a full-time benefit eligible position
  • $500 Sign-Bonus – ½ paid at first check and ½ paid after 90 days, if eligibility requirements are met.
  • Starting rate is $22.50/hour
Education/Skills Requirements
Minimum requirements: Associates Degree in early childhood education, or a related field, and 3 years’ experience working with children birth – 8 years old (preferably in an accredited child care program); or a minimum of 2 years’ experience working with children birth – 8 years old (preferably in an accredited child care program) and a Bachelors’ Degree in early childhood education; or a Bachelor’s Degree an unrelated field with commitment to earn nine college level/for credit courses in early childhood education by December 2015.

Also required: a valid Driver’s license and the ability to meet the requirements of the College’s Motor Vehicle Use Policy; current CPR /First Aid certification. Must also sign a Child Abuse Policy statement, complete the College’s OSHA blood borne pathogen training and show proof of Hepatitis B vaccination (or submit a written declination statement). Experience Requirements and/or Equivalents
Experience working with emergent curriculum and play based inspired programs is highly desirable. Standard Work Days and Hours
40 hours/week between hours of 7:30 a.m. and 5:45 p.m. Monday – Friday. About Bowdoin
Bowdoin embraces diversity in all forms, and the College is home to talented students, faculty and staff—with a variety of racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; religious beliefs; and gender identities, among other factors.

We encourage applications from candidates committed to the support of an inclusive campus community and those who will enrich and contribute to the College’s multifaceted diversity. We value a community in which individuals of all backgrounds are warmly welcomed and encouraged to succeed.

Founded in 1794, Bowdoin has maintained its commitment to the liberal arts for well over 200 years. Bowdoin’s reputation as a preeminent liberal arts college rests on the excellence of its faculty, students, and staff; intimate size; strong sense of community; and connections to the people, history, and natural beauty of Maine.

Bowdoin’s campus is situated in a beautiful natural setting. Located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000, the College is a short drive from the Maine coast, twenty-five miles from Portland and 120 miles from Boston. Shift Employment Category Full Time Year Round FTE 1.00 Benefits Eligible Yes Pay Type Hourly Background Check Package Requirements Support Staff Is driving a vehicle (e.g. Bowdoin vehicle or off road vehicle, rental car, personal car) an essential function of this job? Yes Is a pre-placement physical required for this position? Yes Posting Date 07/08/2022 Applications Accepted Until Open Until Filled Yes Type of Posting Internal/External Special Instructions to Applicants EEO Information
Bowdoin College complies with applicable provisions of federal and state laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment, admission, or access to its educational or extracurricular programs, activities, or facilities based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry and national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, marital status, place of birth, genetic predisposition, veteran status, or against qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities on the basis of disability, or any other legally protected statuses. Supplemental Questions

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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin (rhymes with explodin') is a private, selective, liberal arts college, founded and endowed to benefit the common good. Our historic residential campus, located in Brunswick, Maine, is home to just over 1,800 students from all over the world.

Academic life at Bowdoin spans thirty-three departments, and is cooperative, not competitive: so we tend to attract students who like brainstorming with faculty, working in teams, and welcoming big, new, difficult questions.

We value kindness, diversity, creativity, and hard work.

There’s a lot to love about Maine. And this state is very much at the heart of the College. We simply wouldn’t be Bowdoin anywhere else.

According to one of our colleagues, “To teach at Bowdoin is to help train and educate future leaders—an unalloyed privilege in my experience and a rare one.”

We feel fortunate to live here and to be able to experience everything there is to see and do. Maine is renowned for its beauty—its iconic seaside fishing villages and beachesmountain vistas, and pristine forests. But the appeal is also very much about the people—their culture, sense of community, way of life, and welcoming, inquisitive, and energized spirit.

We’re not going to try to list all that Maine has to offer. But we will try to lead you in a few directions from which you can navigate your own journey of discovery—a very Maine thing to do too!

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