Lead Infant Teacher

Overview

As a Lead Infant Teacher, you’ll create a safe, nurturing classroom where infants can explore, build relationships, and grow. You’ll guide daily care and learning, support classroom routines, and partner with families and colleagues. Your impact: attentive infant care and thoughtful child development instruction help children feel secure and give families confidence in their child’s daily experience.

Duties

• Lead infant care, child supervision, and age-appropriate teaching activities that support childhood development.
• Maintain classroom management and behavior guidance through responsive, consistent caregiving.
• Communicate with parents about children’s routines, development, and classroom experiences.
• Follow childcare safety practices, including first aid procedures and mandated reporting laws.
• Work with colleagues to support children with varied needs, including experience working with individuals with disabilities and special education approaches where appropriate.

Experience

• Experience working with children, infant care, toddler care, and early childhood education; preschool, daycare, daycare center, or classroom experience is valuable.
• Teaching experience with young children, child development instruction, teaching, or working with students is preferred.
• First aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), including pediatric first aid, are valuable qualifications.
• Familiarity with parent communication, child supervision, classroom management, behavior management, and mandated reporting laws is important.
• Related caregiving experience, including nannying or babysitting, is welcome.

Pay: $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Benefits:

• Childcare
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Professional development assistance

Work Location: In person