Director of TEACH Early Childhood Missouri Scholarships

Job Description

Job Description
Summary

Child Care Aware® of Missouri (CCAMO) is seeking an experienced and energetic Director of Scholarships to lead scholarship initiatives that strengthen Missouri’s early childhood workforce. This role involves supervising guiding a high-performing team, fostering relationships with child care professionals and statewide partners, and ensuring scholarship programs are delivered with excellence. The ideal candidate is an adaptable, solutions-driven leader with experience in supervision, data systems, contract management, and early childhood education and is someone committed to continuous improvement creating meaningful impact.

Duties

Responsibilities: The Director of Scholarships provides strategic leadership and daily oversight for the TEACH Early Childhood® Missouri Scholarship Program and the CDA Scholarship. This role is responsible for planning, directing, and managing all scholarship operations to ensure high-quality service delivery and full compliance with contract requirements. The Director oversees outreach and data collection and analysis to guide program improvement and support organizational decision-making.

In addition to operational oversight, the Director manages all fiscal components of the scholarship programs, including monthly invoicing, processing all fiscal items for scholarship participants, and maintaining accurate financial documentation. This position ensures that all financial activities are completed on time and in alignment with funder expectations and organizational standards.

The Director also provides strong leadership and supervision to the scholarship team, including coaching, performance management, and professional development support. This role maintains high performance standards, fosters a collaborative and accountable work environment, and ensures consistency in program implementation. This position reports to the Chief of Workforce Development.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Management of daily program and financial operations for the TEACH Missouri and CDA Scholarships to ensure that deliverables of all contracts and grants are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
• Daily supervision and ongoing coaching and development of personnel assigned to the scholarship programs.
• Manage relationships with scholarship partners such as institutions of higher education, online training entities and the Council for Professional Recognition.
• Communicate the components and value of all scholarships to consumers and stakeholders through presentations, exhibits, special projects, outreach, and other marketing efforts.
• Ensure adherence to contractual and license deliverables for all scholarship programs.
• Oversee direct outreach to child care programs to recruit recipients and sponsoring employers into scholarship programs.
• Conduct regular quality control checks of scholarship databases for reports, invoicing, and data analysis of scholarship programs outcomes.
• Work with the Director of Data and Analysis to track data trends and participants reached through scholarship programs.
• Assist in preparation and submission of data reports for all scholarship contracts, state departments of government, foundations, and other funders.
• Maintain and update processes related to fiscal operations for the scholarships including invoicing, collections, and reimbursements.
• Prepare invoices, reimbursement requests, and make purchases for services and materials related to all scholarship programs.
• Continuous development of the Scholarships Advisory Committee including leading and creating content for quarterly meetings.
• Increase awareness about scholarships with institutions of higher education to support the early childhood workforce.
• Oversee collection of testimonials to increase awareness of scholarships and data to document the return on investment of the programs
• Oversee scholarship counseling to ensure quality, accuracy and use of counseling best practices and to meet national licensing mandates.
• Provide outstanding customer service including phone calls answered in a prompt, courteous, and polite manner, with a positive and unbiased tone.
• Assist in implementation of special projects related to marketing and communications and the updating of scholarship-related materials.
• Participate in advocacy efforts to increase compensation for the early childhood workforce.
• Promotes the Mission, Vision, Beliefs, and Values of CCAMO.
• Engages in the organization’s fundraising and friend-raising activities.
• Engage in other duties, as assigned.

Requirements

Staff Competencies/Qualities:

• BA/BS in early childhood education, child development, or closely related field.
• In early childhood management, customer service, or work in higher education.
• Using and managing databases.
• In direct supervision of team members, coaching experience preferred.
• Strong creative and professional writing skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both program and outreach settings.
• Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail and problem-solving abilities.
• Drive to make a difference in the lives of early childhood educators.
• Independent and self-motivated, able to comply with and enforce deadlines.
• Energetic team player.
• Capable of handling multiple tasks with competing priorities under minimal supervision.
• Able to think critically and exercise independent judgment and discretion.
• Results-oriented and solution-focused with a problem-solving attitude.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products.
• Willingness and ability to travel including some planned overnight stays
• Ability to lift 30 pounds.

Benefits

Company contribution to 401k vested 100% at time of hire. Company paid medical, dental, vision, long term disability and life insurance with a small monthly employee copay. Accrual of two weeks’ vacation and sick time during first year. Flexible schedule. (Company paid benefits add approximately $20,000 in value to the total compensation package.)