Assistant Center Director - Chicago Region

Language Stars, the leading provider of early childhood foreign language education, is a rapidly growing educational organization that offers play-based, full immersion foreign language programs in Spanish, Mandarin, French, German and Italian. We currently teach 6,000 students each week, helping them move toward proficiency in a foreign language, build cognitive skills and have fun at the same time! Our dynamic, native-speaking teachers immerse our students 100% in the target language through our FunImmersion® curriculum, comprised of games, music & movement, art projects and many other engaging activities. We focus on a young child's "Window of Opportunity" to absorb a foreign language naturally, and we track the progress of each child. We offer our FunImmersion® programs in 10 Language Stars language centers, 8 satellite centers and over 100 public and private schools in the Chicago and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. We have plans for additional nation-wide expansion.

Qualifications

  • Ambitious, aspiring managers who can manage the description tasks below while contributing to significant center growth from season to season.
  • Strong communication, organization & leadership skills with an attention to detail
  • Passion for working with children
  • 1 year experience in a child-oriented or management-oriented position is a plus
  • Fluency in a foreign language is a plus

Description

Assistant Center Directors (ACDs) will simultaneously help run our educational centers and build skills professionally. ACDs have an opportunity for a long term career as an ACD, or become a candidate for a Center Director position, which involves broader general management, marketing and leadership responsibilities.

Assistant Center Directors will focus on the responsibilities involved in running a center, including:

  • Program Quality
  • Parent Communication
  • Staff management, motivation and training
  • Curriculum and materials management
  • Center Finance and Administration

Job Logistics

Assistant Center Directors work 5 days per week spanning Mon-Sat, from ~ 8:15 am – 6:00 pm.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Competitive salary and seasonal results-driven bonus
  • $33,200 with potential for seasonal, results-driven bonus
  • Based on performance and results, opportunity for significant increase in responsibility and compensation throughout career
  • Optional participation in subsidized group health and dental plans
  • 3 weeks paid vacation
  • Optional 401K participation

How to Apply

  • Please visit www.languagestars.com for more information about our team and mission!
  • Email resume and cover letter to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Note in subject: Assistant Center Director – YOUR NAME

Language Stars is an Equal Opportunity Employer

On Language Learning...
"It is critical for all American students to have language skills. And I want everybody here to be working hard to make sure that you don't just speak one language, you speak a bunch of languages."
President Barack Obama to Washington D.C. public school students, March 2011