Competition #: 015C2-Jan2225A
Position: Pre-Primary Program Lead
Location: Central Office
Department: Pre-Primary
Assignment: Pre-Primary Regional Lead
Status: Term

Percentage: 100%
Start Date: Monday, March 03 2025
End Date: Monday, June 30 2025
Posted: Wednesday, January 22 2025 12:00 PM
Deadline: Wednesday, January 29 2025 12:00 PM

Details:

Under the supervision of the Manager, Pre-Primary Program, the primary responsibility of the PrePrimary Lead is to provide operational support to assist school administrators in planning, administering and delivering the Pre-Primary Program (PPP) at their school. This includes providing pedagogical expertise and deliberately supporting school administration in building their capacity to effectively plan, manage and lead the PPP at their site. The PPP Lead provides hands-on assistance to school principals in carrying out their responsibility as the educational leader of the school to delivery an equitable, diverse, inclusive and accessible (EDIA), high quality play based early learning experience for children in the foundational years of the public school system utilizing the Nova Scotia Early Learning Curriculum Framework. As directed, the PPP Lead will also directly support school principals in their responsibilities by participating in recruiting, orienting, monitoring and evaluation staff working in the PPP.

Qualifications:

1. An undergraduate degree with a specialization in early childhood development;

2. Five (5) years recent experience working with pre-school children;

3. Two (2) years experience working in a leadership or management capacity in a professional environment;

4. Previous leadership and management role in early childhood development is an asset;

5. Previous experience working within a large unionized public sector environment considered an asset;

6. Current certification in First Aid.

Salary:

This is a Professional Employees Group (PEG) position classified on the Education Entities Non-Union Compensation Framework at Band 7 with an annual range between $63,936 to $79,920. The Non Union Compensation Framework is available here : https://www.ednet.ns.ca/docs/educationnon-unioncompensationframeworken.pdf.

Please refer to job description for further details.

Nova Scotia's Regional Centres for Education and the Conseil scolaire acadien provincial (CSAP) are committed to an inclusive education system that supports the well-being and achievement of every student and is high-quality, culturally and linguistically responsive.

The Halifax Regional Centre for Education (HRCE) is actively working to hire individuals from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi'kmaw/Indigenous ancestry, to work toward equitable representation within all employee groups. Equitable hiring strengthens the knowledge and expertise in our schools, and supports our public education system in establishing schools as safe, caring, and accessible learning spaces that support all students. This will provide opportunities for students to see themselves reflected throughout their schools, learning resources, and within their learning experiences.

HRCE has a Recruitment, Selection and Hiring of Staff Policy and we actively encourage applications from under-represented groups, particularly people of African Nova Scotian, African Canadian and African ancestry and Mi'kmaw/Indigenous ancestry, in compliance with the applicable collective agreements or terms and conditions of employment. Applicants are encouraged to complete the Diversity Management section under the Questionnaire heading in the online resume.

Thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Employment with the Halifax Regional Centre for Education is contingent upon providing a satisfactory Criminal Records Check and Child Abuse Registry Search.