Area Manager - Adelaide

at; South Australia; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An emerging leader in education is seeking an Area Manager for their first Adelaide campus launch. The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, oversee day-to-day campus activities, and be responsible for hiring and mentoring a high-caliber team. This is an exciting opportunity for a proven leader in educational or premium service sectors, who is passionate about reshaping education and making a significant impact in South Australia.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Leadership growth opportunities

Employee Assistance Program

Birthday/loyalty leave

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in multi-site or venue leadership in education, hospitality, retail, or fitness.
• People leader: recruits well, coaches hard and kind, builds capability and pride.
• Strong project management skills and solution-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Open Adelaide campus with 100% readiness and maintain operational excellence.
• Lead daily campus operations ensuring class readiness and compliance.
• Hire, onboard, coach, and mentor service team members.

Skills

Leadership

Operational Excellence

Coaching

Problem-solving

Project Management

Education

Experience in multi-site or venue leadership

Job description

⭐️ Ready to lead the next chapter of Contour’s growth?

To open our first interstate campus in Adelaide, South Australia and build a premium education experience that reshapes how students learn, and that parents rave about?

To take a proven Victorian playbook and execute it so well in Adelaide that it becomes the benchmark for our national expansion?

At Contour, we're searching for a builder-operator. A leader who lives and breathes high standards, loves the craft of scaling operations, and can turn a brand-new campus into a beautiful, seamless, and impactful learning space.

If the idea of planting the Contour flag in South Australia and scaling to multiple campuses lights you up, keep reading...

Starting in 2026, Contour is expanding beyond our 8 campuses in Victoria to South Australia, Queensland, and Western Australia.

As Area Manager – Adelaide, you’ll be the lead operator for Adelaide. You'll open up our first campus, recruit and develop the service team, run flawless day-to-day campus operations, and set a standard that becomes indistinguishable from our best Melbourne sites.

This isn't a "maintenance mode" role. It's launch, lead, and continuously raise the bar. And your opportunity to make a tangible impact, grow as a leader, and pioneer the South Australia arm of reshaping education on a national scale.

Who We Are

At Contour, we’re reshaping education, one student at a time.

Born from the frustration of students who knew the system could be better, we set out to build what we once wished existed: tutoring that actually works. Not generic classes. Not recycled notes. Not overpriced, overcrowded rooms with an out-of-touch teacher who couldn’t relate. But a complete ecosystem of tutoring, resources, and support, meticulously designed to help every student reach their full potential.

Since 2020, over 10,000+ students have trusted Contour to guide their academic journey, and we’ve grown to over 300+ team members. We’ve produced hundreds of 99+ ATARs, tutored the World-Record UCAT scorer, and placed more students into medical school than any school in Australia.

Our growth is a testament to the simple philosophy: Put the student first, always. Everything we design, from our world-class tutor-training programs to our purpose-built campuses, exists to help students master content faster, perform with confidence, and even rekindle the joy of learning.

Contour is a group of three brands united by one goal: to give every student the best chance to achieve their full potential:

Contour Education: Reshaping how students master their high school subjects with small-group tutoring, structured resources, and 1-on-1 support across Maths, Science, and English.

Contour Medprep: Reshaping medical preparation with a proven, step-by-step pathway through the UCAT, interviews, and admissions, led by a team of 100+ medical students.

Contour TestPrep: Reshaping test preparation, starting with the selective entry exam, through rigorous tutoring, mock exams, and data-driven feedback to give students a decisive advantage.

This is Contour. Built by students, for students.

What You Will Do

Launch & Expansion

Open Adelaide at 100% readiness, with immaculate facilities, team trained, and rhythms live.

Partner with Academics, People & Culture, Marketing, Tech, and the National Campus Ops team to run a plug-and-play launch that feels premium from minute one.

Operational Excellence

Own daily campus operations: class readiness, rostering, reschedules, attendance, inventory, and service operations (phone, email, text, in-person).

Audit regularly against the Campus Ops Playbook; close gaps fast; feed improvements back into the national standard.

Keep the campus beautiful: safety, compliance, maintenance, hospitality-grade presentation, and alignment with Contour's brand.

Leadership & Team Building

Hire, onboard, coach, and mentor high-calibre Service Team Members & Leaders.

Create a culture of kindness, responsibility, continuous improvement, and unity, with standards that are loving but uncompromising.

Be a trusted partner to tutors: classrooms prepped, resources perfect, tech ready. Every class, every time.

Student Experience

Work with Enrolments Team to create new classes in line with demand and utilisation. Grow proactively, not reactively.

Resolve escalations with empathy and precision; protect the brand and relationships.

Ship meaningful service improvements regularly (automation, workflow, environment, or rhythms).

Ship meaningful campus improvements across facilities, maintenance, compliance, and cost control.

Partner with founders & senior leadership to implement strategy and growth initiatives.

What You Will Bring

Minimum 3+ years of experience in multi-site or venue leadership in education, hospitality, retail, fitness. Anywhere premium service and tight ops matter.

People leader: recruits well, coaches hard and kind, builds capability and pride.

Operator’s eye: you notice the 1% details (chairs straight, print packs perfect, lighting right) and the 10,000-foot flows (schedules, staffing, cost lines).

System thinker: turns chaos into checklists, reports, rituals, and dashboards with sound project management skills.

Solution-oriented: flexible, proactive mindset with first-principles problem-solving.

Extreme ownership: proactive, accountable, allergic to “near enough.”

Mission fit: deeply aligned with reshaping education, one student at a time.

Bonus points: education ops, franchise/rollout playbooks, new-site openings, CX/NPS programs, light technical fluency (you love automations or data).

Why You Will Love It Here

Foundational role with high impact: Lead the SA arm of Contour's national expansion, and directly shape student and team experiences.

Leadership growth: We went from 1 to 8 Victorian campuses in just a few years. As we open more SA campuses, this role can grow into State Operations Leadership.

Competitive package: Competitive salary, benefits, EAP, birthday/loyalty leave, and the satisfaction of work that compounds and makes a real impact in students' lives.

How to Apply

If you're a builder who wants to create a premium education experience that becomes a household name in SA, we want to meet you. Apply with your CV and a short paragraph about why you’d make an exceptional Area Manager.

Contour is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all backgrounds.