Early Learning Center FT Administrator

Full-Time Administrator

Temple Shir Tikva Early Learning Center, Wayland, MA

Are you passionate about helping to create an organized environment for teachers, young children, and their families where you can grow as a professional?  Temple Shir Tikva’s Early Learning Center (ELC) is looking for enthusiastic, caring, and collaborative administrator to join our team. If YOU would like to join a caring and creative team at a growing synagogue, and enjoy working with fantastic colleagues in a wonderful community, then we invite you to explore the Early Learning Center Administrator position at Temple Shir Tikva. This position is supervised by Stephanie Lerner, the ELC Director, who is committed to supporting each team member’s personal and professional development.

Skills and Qualifications:

You are someone who is…

• Patient and kind with children, families, and colleagues
• Receptive to feedback and compelled to take initiative; someone who works well on a team and is eager to partner with the ELC Director
• Flexible, organized, and calm under pressure

You are someone who has…

• Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
• Proficiency with Microsoft suite, design applications such Canva, SignUp Genius, Zoom
• Experience managing a budget and credit card expenses
• Strong interpersonal skills

About this Role:

• Manage school and summer camp enrollment
• Maintain files for children and staff per EEC policies
• Maintain online database
• Prepare payroll for bookkeeper and track spending against budget
• Arrange coverage for teachers (subs and breaks)
• Represent the ELC to prospective families
• Order program supplies
• Attend weekly Temple administrative and staff meetings as ELC point of contact

Salary and Benefits

• Salary: $45,000-$50,000 annually. This is a full-year, full-time (40 hours/week) position.
• Two weeks paid vacation
• Federal and Jewish Holidays off
• 10 days sick leave, 2 Personal Days
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Start date: June 1, 2025 (negotiable)

Where you will work:

Temple Shir Tikva is the leading synagogue in Boston’s MetroWest, a thriving community that is home to more than 600 member families of all generations providing them with a nurturing, engaging and warm community to call their own. Over the past few years we have invested heavily in the professional team we have put together to ensure that there is a real sense of collegiality, collaboration and cooperation, so people enjoy coming to work and supporting one another, and to create opportunities for growth and development.

TST’s ELC fosters a lifelong love of learning by celebrating each child’s natural sense of discovery and wonder through a Reggio inspired curriculum, and a rich nature-based focus. Our teachers create experiences on the adjacent campgrounds and nurture children’s innate gifts of curiosity by promoting safe risk-taking, creativity and social interactions. Guided by Jewish culture and values (including universal character traits like kindness, respect, gratitude, teamwork, etc.), our learners develop their inner skills and also learn how to be part of a community.

How to apply: Please send cover letter and resume to Stephanie Lerner, ELC Director [email protected]