SAP Coordinator

Casa Central

Program Coordinator responsible for managing Casa Central’s School Age Program for children ages 5-12 and their families. Ensuring staff management, lesson planning, and compliance with standards.

Posted 5/28/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $0 - $58,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Casa Central’s School Age Program (SAP) provides out-of-school time enrichment programming for children ages 5-12 and their families.
The Program Coordinator is responsible for orienting, training, coaching, and monitoring staff, volunteers, and interns; overseeing the daily schedule; supporting lesson planning; responding to child and family needs; and ensuring timely and accurate classroom documentation.
The SAP Coordinator ensures the development of strategies for the active recruitment, eligibility screening, enrollment, and engagement of children and families.
The coordinator provides support to the Director of the School-Age Program to ensure that the program is in full compliance with stakeholder expectations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A minimum of an associate degree from an accredited college or university in child development or early childhood education; or B.A. in Education; Early Childhood Education; Child Development.
Thirty semester or 45 quarter hours of credit from an accredited college or university with 12 semester or 18 quarter hours related to school-age child care, child development, elementary education, physical education, recreation, camping or other related fields;
At least 750 clock hours of experience in a recreational program or a licensed day care center serving school-age children or in a license exempt school-age child care program operated by a public or private school.
Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
Word processing; spreadsheets; internet skills; data entry skills and in managing Microsoft applications to facilitate communication.
Preferred knowledge of online database systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fiscal Management Support with the planning, preparation, and management of the program’s budget.
Monitor grant/contract budgets to maximize the utilization of resources and communicate the need for budget modification in a timely manner.
Work with Finance, Kitchen, and Eligibility staff to ensure recovery of revenue and compliance with funder guidelines, particularly related to CACFP and the Childcare Assistance Program (CCAP).
Exercise accurate cash handling and record keeping duties in relation to program fees collected and monetary donations generated via fundraising activities.
Collect co-pays and transportation fees.
Ensure new children and families are oriented, welcomed, and integrated into the program.
Lead the recruitment and enrollment efforts of children and families to the program.
Assist in classrooms and with transportation routes, including working with children 1-1 and in small and large groups, providing homework help, leading lessons, supervising field trips, etc.

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Hard Skills & Tools

child developmentearly childhood educationschool-age child careelementary educationphysical educationrecreationdata entryonline database systemslesson planningcompliance

Soft Skills

trainingcoachingmonitoringcommunicationrecruitmentengagementsupportorganizationresponsivenessleadership

Certifications

associate degreeB.A. in EducationB.A. in Early Childhood EducationB.A. in Child Development