Capital Works Funding Program Manager

C&K; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare discounts

EAP program

Health insurance discounts

Blue Card funding

Police Check funding

Professional development

Referral bonus

Career growth

Job summary

C&K is seeking an experienced Capital Works Funding Program Manager to lead planning, governance and delivery of a major capital works funding program across Queensland. This full-time, 38-hour week role is a fixed-term opportunity until 30 June 2027, based in Kedron, QLD.

You will work with stakeholders to allocate funding, manage budgets and deliver capital upgrades across a dispersed network of services, ensuring safety and quality for children and communities.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering capital works or facilities projects across multiple sites.
• Strong project governance, risk management and reporting capability.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Current Police Check.
• Completion of the National Child Safety Training – Foundation Certificate.
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
• Proven leadership capability.

Responsibilities

• Leading the planning, prioritisation and coordination of C&K's Capital Works Upgrade Funding Program.
• Developing and maintaining integrated program plans, governance frameworks, reporting and project documentation.
• Managing funding allocations, budgets, forecasting, expenditure monitoring and financial reporting.
• Reviewing and endorsing funding applications, variations and acquittals.
• Identifying and managing project and program risks, ensuring appropriate controls and compliance.
• Preparing reports, recommendations and briefing materials to support informed decision-making

Skills

Capital works delivery

Governance

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Undergraduate or postgraduate qualification in business

National Child Safety Training – Foundation Certificate

Job description

At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 115 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children’s safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

Make a lasting difference for children and communities

We're seeking an experienced Capital Works Funding Program Manager to lead the planning, governance and delivery of a significant capital works funding program across C&K branch and affiliated kindergarten and childcare centres throughout Queensland. This is an opportunity to combine your expertise in program management, governance and stakeholder engagement with meaningful work that strengthens learning environments for children and communities.

• Full-time position | Monday to Friday | 38-hour week.
• Fixed-term opportunity until 30 June 2027.

As part of our Corporate Services team, you'll work closely with a range of stakeholders to ensure capital works funding is strategically allocated, effectively managed and successfully delivered across a geographically dispersed network of services.

How you'll make a difference

• Leading the planning, prioritisation and coordination of C&K's Capital Works Upgrade Funding Program.
• Developing and maintaining integrated program plans, governance frameworks, reporting and project documentation.
• Managing funding allocations, budgets, forecasting, expenditure monitoring and financial reporting
• Reviewing and endorsing funding applications, variations and acquittals.
• Identifying and managing project and program risks, ensuring appropriate controls and compliance are maintained.
• Preparing reports, recommendations and briefing materials to support informed decision-making

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 35% of the gap fee.
• Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
• BUPA health insurance discounts
• Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
• Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
• Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
• Plus so much more.

What you’ll bring

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success!

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

• Experience delivering capital works or facilities projects across multiple sites.
• Strong project governance, risk management and reporting capability.
• Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
• Relevant Undergraduate or post graduate qualification(s) in business (or equivalent experience)
• Current Police Check
• Completion of the National Child Safety Training – Foundation Certificate
• Highly developed stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills
• Proven leadership capability

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset – when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.

Kedron, QLD