Employment
Wildflower Child & Family Center is growing! We are doubling our size in the 2025-2026 school year and adding in new positions to help support our mission. If you believe strongly in nature-based learning for all types of families, love spending time outdoors in relationship with the outdoors, children, and your peers-then this might be for you. WCFC practices shared leadership, team teaching, a low teacher to child ratio, Reggio inspired classrooms, and a LEARNING mindset-not one of knowing it all. We are proud to be a Step Up To Quality Gold rated Center, Preschool Promise Partner, and Connect to Nature Award winner. If you are ready to study, observe and connect with a community of committed early childhood professionals on 900 acres of Ohio land-apply today!
Interested applicants should email their cover letter and resume to meredith@wildflowercfc.org. Interviews begin April 1, 2025.
Available Positions
$15-20/hour
24-40 hours/week
12 months
A Lead Nature Preschool Teacher at Wildflower Child & Family Center works with a small dedicated team to provide custom nature-based care and education. The Land Caretaker will be responsible for conceptualizing, planning, sourcing, and managing our gardens as well as noticing, integrating, and interaction with the local natural environments. This would include knowing how to incorporate field work, phenology, tracking, plant knowledge, weather, song, and games to name a few. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!
$15-20/hour
28-40 hours/week
9 OR 12 months
A Lead Nature Preschool Teacher at Wildflower Child & Family Center works with a small dedicated team to provide custom nature-based care and education. The teacher in the Health Caretaker role is the team member that conceptualizes, plans, sources, and manages duties related to mental, emotional, and physical health. This includes paperwork, activities, food and family engagement. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!
$15-20/hour
28-40 hours/week
9 OR 12 months
A Lead Nature Preschool Teacher at Wildflower Child & Family Center works with a small dedicated team to provide custom nature-based care and education. The teacher in the Storyteller role is the team member that conceptualizes, plans, sources, and manages duties related to telling our story. This includes internal institutional knowledge, documentation to families and history as well as external marketing (website, social media, mailings, and advertisement), to the community. The person in this role also has shared grant writing responsibilities and must have excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!
A writing sample is required for this role.
$15-20/hour
24-40 hours/week
9 OR 12 months
A Lead Nature Preschool Teacher at Wildflower Child & Family Center works with a small dedicated team to provide custom nature-based care and education. With a small child to adult ratio, in depth child observation, preparation and documentation are possible. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!
$15-17/hour
14-20 hours/week
9 OR 12 months
Our support staff is key to our success by working with children to allow classroom teachers team planning, extra hands during the beginning of the year and during conference season as well as joining classes when other teachers are out. Daily duties include prepping food, dishes, handling clean laundry, trash removal, cleaning toys, purchasing and record maintenance, managing inventory & supplies, some paperwork, working with children while teachers are in meetings perhaps in a “special” class. The person in this role will also serve as the sustainability chair for the school, leading staff and students in this area. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!
$15-17/hour
4-15 hours/week
9 OR 12 months
A Lead Nature Preschool Teacher at Wildflower Child & Family Center works with a small dedicated team to provide custom nature-based care and education. The Land Caretaker will be responsible for conceptualizing, planning, sourcing, and managing our gardens as well as noticing, integrating, and interaction with the local natural environments. This would include knowing how to incorporate field work, phenology, tracking, plant knowledge, weather, song, and games to name a few. The ideal candidate is passionate about all children having access to nature-based education and will use best practices in early childhood care and education to create connections to our natural world for children and their teachers. The candidate must be ready to hike in the rain with 16 kiddos in tow, delight in having their hands in the soil, enjoy building forts, be outdoors in the winter, and be ready to paint or have a parent conversation as the day unfolds!