Head Start Delivery Coordinator - Central Highlands

Government schools; Warrnambool; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Head Start Delivery Coordinator is a role within the Jobs, Skills and Pathways team to support Head Start in Victorian government schools. The role focuses on coordinating engagement with government schools, maintaining relationships with SBAT support programs, and ensuring consistent, high-quality SBAT delivery.

The Head Start program supports students in years 10 to 12 to participate in School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills and ability to prepare technical reports.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills and ability to develop collaborative relationships between stakeholders.
• Exemplary use of data and digital literacy to support program planning and operations.
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day program operations, identify risks, manage priorities, and resolve issues.
• Model and promote Department values in practice and professional learning.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Head Start engagement with Victorian government schools.
• Oversee relationships between schools and SBAT support programs to ensure consistent SBAT delivery.
• Maintain quality and delivery standards of Head Start across Victorian government schools.
• Support and reflect on practice to continually improve program outcomes.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Data skills

Program delivery

DE Values

Job description

Head Start Delivery Coordinator - Central Highlands

• Demonstrated ability to model and support colleagues to adopt behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon professional practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve program quality.

Communication

• Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate program values, processes and objectives to a diversity of stakeholders, and to prepare technical reports at an advanced professional level.

Relationship and stakeholder management

• Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative, productive relationships with and between Department stakeholders such as students, schools, employers, training providers and external support providers.

Data and digital skills

• Demonstrated exemplary use of data and digital literacy skills. Demonstrated ability to operate digital and technological tools to support program planning and to analyse and support others in the use of data to improve program operations.
• Demonstrated highly developed capacity to coordinate day-to-day program operations. Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate for risks, manage competing priorities, resolve complex issues and use experiential knowledge to improve delivery of outcomes.

Selection Criteria

DE Values

• Demonstrated ability to model and support colleagues to adopt behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon professional practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve program quality.

Communication

• Demonstrated highly developed oral and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate program values, processes and objectives to a diversity of stakeholders, and to prepare technical reports at an advanced professional level.

Relationship and stakeholder management

• Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain collaborative, productive relationships with and between Department stakeholders such as students, schools, employers, training providers and external support providers.

Data and digital skills

• Demonstrated exemplary use of data and digital literacy skills. Demonstrated ability to operate digital and technological tools to support program planning and to analyse and support others in the use of data to improve program operations.

Program delivery

• Demonstrated highly developed capacity to coordinate day-to-day program operations. Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate for risks, manage competing priorities, resolve complex issues and use experiential knowledge to improve delivery of outcomes.

Role

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Jobs, Skills and Pathways team, and support the delivery of the Head Start program in Victorian government schools.

About Head Start:

Head Start supports students in years 10 to 12 to participate in School Based Apprenticeships and Traineeships (SBATs). SBATs develop skills, capabilities and confidence that employers in growth industries need. Head Start provides a range of supports to assist students to undertake an SBAT as part of their senior secondary education.

Head Start in 2027, 2028 and 2029:

The 2026-27 State Budget allocated $46 million over years 2027, 2028 and 2029 towards the Head Start program, to support every Victorian government secondary school to access an effective model of SBAT support.

The Head Start model aims to increase year 12 completion rates and assist in addressing skill shortages to grow the Victorian economy, supporting all Victorian government school students that want to pursue an apprenticeship or traineeship to access an SBAT pathway aligned with their strengths and pathway aspirations. The model provides tailored supports to SBATs to simultaneously complete school and build skills they need to develop sustainable careers.

Head Start works with Victorian government schools to support students to:

• Identify and pursue sustainable apprenticeship and traineeship pathways
• Have access to required supports to undertake an SBAT aligned to their strengths and aspirations
• Be safe and supported in the workplace, complete school and progress to full-time apprenticeships or traineeships
• Pathway to available jobs that address Victorian skills gaps

About the Head Start Delivery Coordinator role:

The role of the Head Start Delivery Coordinator is to coordinate Head Start engagement with Victorian government schools, oversee relationships between these schools and other SBAT support programs, and maintain consistency in the quality of SBAT support delivered. The role facilitates quality Head Start delivery in Victorian