Early Childhood Education Manager

Creche & Kindergarten Association; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Phone

Laptop

Fleet vehicle

Professional development

Training and support

Job summary

C&K is seeking an Early Childhood Education Manager to oversee kindergarten operations across the Sunshine Coast and beyond. You will lead service delivery, support educational outcomes, and drive regional objectives in line with C&K's vision and values.

In this role, you will collaborate with service leaders, manage performance, and travel across Queensland centres to ensure high-quality care and inclusion for children and families. Hybrid work arrangements are available.

Qualifications

• ACECQA approved bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and Care or working towards.
• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and supporting early childhood education services/programs to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Willingness to travel across the region.
• Multi-site management experience is desirable.
• Strong understanding of early childhood education, health, wellbeing, inclusion and development frameworks.
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills to engage teams and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support service delivery, including implementation of new services, to promote integrated approaches and quality outcomes.
• Manage service performance to drive continuous improvement.
• Support services to identify and respond to client/community needs.
• Engage with regional management to address service needs and outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Collaboration

Data analysis

Education

ACECQA approved bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and Care

Working towards degree

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.

We're looking for a passionate Early Childhood Education Manager to support our kindergartens across the Sunshine Coast. In this leadership role, you'll partner with service leaders to drive operational excellence, support high-quality educational outcomes, and bring C&K's vision and values to life for children, families, and communities.

• Full time - 38 hours per week Monday to Friday
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Applicants must be prepared to travel to C&K centres located across QLD
• Access to phone, laptop, fleet vehicle, professional development, training, and support

Help shape the future of children in our care

In this role you will lead and support service delivery, including implementation of new services, to promote integrated approaches and to achieve quality outcomes, and regional objectives aligned with C&K strategy, priorities, and values. You will:

• Apply effective communication and leadership strategies to engage staff, and working collaboratively, including partnering with other services in the area to support and inspires a shared sense of purpose and to deliver outcomes for children and families
• Manage service performance to drive continuous improvement
• Support services to identify and be responsive to client/community needs.
• Engaging with the regional management team to ensure service needs and outcomes are addressed

What you’ll bring

To thrive and succeed in this role, you will either have:

• ACECQA approved bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Education and Care or working towards
• Demonstrated experience managing, mentoring, and supporting early childhood education and care services/programs to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Willingness to travel when required across your region
• Experience in multi-site management is desirable
• Practical understanding of key issues, strategies, and best practices in early childhood education, child health, wellbeing and inclusion, early childhood curricula, and development frameworks
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to facilitate across team collaboration and cooperation to achieve best practice outcomes in child wellbeing and inclusion
• Skills, capability and experience in exploring options and implementing innovative strategies to support and manage service delivery and business outcomes, including analysing trends and data; developing and maintaining effective relationships/partnerships; and engaging with research and best practice.

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.

Maroochydore, QLD