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Job Description
Position Type:
Administrative/Management
Date Posted:
5/20/2026
Location:
District Wide
Date Available:
06/12/2026
Closing Date:
06/03/2026
Preschool Program Supervisor
Starting Wage: $1941-$2197 *wage based on 2024-2025 contract* per week + Benefits
42week position
Join the Duluth Public Schools team, where we work to inspire every student to achieve their potential and prepare students to lead productive, fulfilling lives.
Summary:
Oversees the budget and program delivery of Head Start; Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten and School Readiness in accordance with the rules and mandates of each, including writing grants, ensuring accurate and timely annual reports; meets deadlines and ensures compliance regarding these programs. In conjunction with staff and parents, develops a safe, welcoming and nurturing early childhood environment for young children and their families. Provides instructional leadership at the program level with a focus on best early childhood practice. Works with and support staff to ensure that all children are provided the opportunity to learn, up to their ability, in all areas across the curriculum. Ensures that highly-trained teachers are teaching appropriate and challenging curricula, using best practices strategies. In conjunction with staff, parents and community members, develops a comprehensive grant goals and objectives for each program, and works toward the accomplishment of its goals.
Minimum Qualifications:- Baccalaureate degree in early childhood education; three years of teaching experience in early childhood education; experience working with parents; experience with serving low-income families; and experience performing administrative and managerial duties.
Certification or Licensing Requirements:- Pre-Kindergarten or Early Childhood license issued by the Minnesota Department of Education.
Knowledgeable Qualifications:- Child and family development.
- Pre-kindergarten and early childhood and family education best practices.
- Parent education and involvement strategies.
- Community resources.
- Understand diversity issues among students.
- Effective education administration strategies.
- Developing, monitoring, and reporting budgets.
- Grant writing.
- Quality improvement strategies
- Curriculum scope and sequence and its effective implementation.
- Development of educational goals using proper analysis of test data and other information.
- Various supervisory, personnel management and performance evaluation techniques and the use of these techniques to improve job performance.
- Program finance, budget development and implementation.
- General knowledge of school law as applied to student rights, responsibilities, due process and special education.
- Program promotion and marketing.
- Staff job screening and selection methods.
In addition to rewarding career opportunities, Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent benefit package to employees who are hired into positions scheduled to work 24 hours/week or more. Benefits include, but are not limited to the following:
Medical/Prescription Drug Plan with Health Reimbursement Arrangement- Single Coverage District pays 100% of premium (FREE) + contributes $2,612.50 into HRA annually
- Family Coverage District pays 75% of premium (25% employee contribution) + contributes $5,225.00 into HRA annually
Dental Plan- Single Coverage District pays 100% of Basic premium (FREE)
- Family Coverage District pays 25% of Premium
Life Insurance- District provides minimum of $50,000 of life insurance at no cost, employee may purchase supplemental life insurance
Long Term Disability- District-provided at no cost to employee
Flexible Spending Accounts- Employees may elect to contribute on a pre-tax basis to Health Flexible Spending Accounts and Dependent Care Accounts
Retirement- The District contributes 7.5% of your total salary in the Public Employees Retirement Association) pension plan.
- Employees may also elect to participate in Tax-Shelter Annuity options.
Time Off- Each bargaining unit contract defines time off provisions such as holidays, sick/personal leave, vacation, etc.
Contact Information:
If you have any questions, please contact Human Resources at 218-336-8722 or email noncerthr@isd709.org
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Duluth Public Schools
Show moreDuluth, or Onigamiising in Ojibwe, is the seat of St. Louis County, the largest city in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota, and the fourth largest city in the state. It is located on the western tip of Lake Superior and its city limits encompass 67 square miles of land and nearly 50 square miles of water. It is part of the Twin Ports metropolitan statistical area which includes all of Wisconsin's Douglas County, and Minnesota's Carlton, Lake, and Saint Louis counties which boasts a population of 291,638, ranked as the 170th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
After years of building economic diversity, Duluth is growing into a robust regional economic, medical, aviation, higher education, outdoor recreation and arts center. Duluth has long been recognized as an innovative region that is supported by a wide variety of services and industries, including the largest, farthest inland freshwater port, the Port of Duluth-Superior.
The city also boasts a vibrant arts culture, home to art museums, theater, and numerous festivals throughout the year. It is the home of two colleges and a university whose local sports teams include nationally ranked and championship teams.
Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent, competitive and comprehensive benefits program, which includes medical, prescription drug, dental, life, and disability coverage. A pension plan, tax-sheltered annuities program, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health care savings plan and employee assistance program round out the district’s robust benefits program.
The district pays a significant portion of the premium for medical hospitalization, dental and prescription coverage for employees and dependents and offers Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) funding.
The district also has generous provisions for vacation, holidays, family and medical leave and other types of paid and unpaid leave. The district recently added Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth to our list of paid holidays.
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