Childcare Development Outreach Officer

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is seeking a motivated Childcare Development Outreach Officer to join the Early Years’ Business, Sufficiency and Funding Team. The role focuses on outreach to childcare providers, parents, students, and employers, promoting childcare information and services across the city.

You will help manage Coventry's childcare market and support workforce recruitment and retention, visiting venues, schools, and colleges to encourage entrants into the childcare sector.

Qualifications

• Provide information and advice about childcare to parents, carers, students, employers, childcare providers and professionals.
• Support the management of the childcare market in Coventry in accordance with the childcare sufficiency duties.
• Lead outreach activities to recruit and retain the childcare workforce, including job fairs and school visits.

Responsibilities

• Visit city-wide venues and before/after school and holiday childcare providers to share information.
• Assist in ensuring sufficient registered childcare and education places.
• Work with partners such as training providers and Job Shop to support recruitment and retention.

Job description

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

The role of the Early Years’ Business and Sufficiency Team

• Lead and facilitate strategic development in relation to early years business, sufficiency and funding across the city, working with a range of partners
• Provide market management to secure sufficient registered childcare and education places
• Secure and fund early years provision which is free of charge to parents
• Provide advice and guidance to extended childcare provision for children beyond the age of 5 years.
• To provide childcare-related advice to parents and carers.

Early years officers liaise with Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) providers, schools, parents/carers and other external agencies to achieve the best outcomes for young children.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and strive to create an inclusive workplace culture that is accepting of all and free from discrimination and bias.

What is the job role?

We are seeking to appoint a motivated and passionate Childcare Development Outreach Officer to join our successful team within the Early Years’ Business, Sufficiency and Funding Team to work predominantly in an outreach capacity, visiting city-wide venues and before, after school and holiday childcare providers.

The purpose of this role is:

• To provide comprehensive information and advice about childcare and related matters to parents, carers, students, employers, childcare providers and professionals. This will include visits to local community venues, PVI providers and Schools who deliver before, after school and holiday provision.
• To support the management of the childcare market in Coventry in accordance with the childcare sufficiency duties, through a variety of activities with a focus on before, after school and holiday provision.
• To provide an outreach function in support of recruitment and retention of the workforce within the childcare sector, attending events such as Job Fairs, Career events, etc, visiting childcare settings to offer support with recruitment and retention, visiting schools and colleges to encourage entrants to the childcare workforce and working in partnership with key partners such as training providers and Job Shop and Jobcentre, etc.

Support the Workforce Development Manager to implement systems to ensure the early years workforce in Coventry has access to relevant training.

This post is a fixed contract with an end date of 31st March 2027.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

The successful candidate will be open-minded, flexible and excited about the development of new ideas and initiatives. They will have excellent communication skills and the ability to present information in a clear and concise manner to a wide variety of audiences.

For Key Educational Requirements Refer To The Job Description.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge, skills and experiences related to the job description and person specification.

The post would suit an appropriately qualified or experienced childcare practitioner or have childcare/children’s work-related experience.

This advert may close early if we have a significant number of applicants. Previous applicants need not apply.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

We recognise that you might use AI tools to help with your application. While these tools can be useful, please make sure that all information you provide about your experience, skills, and qualifications is accurate. What matters most to us is hearing about your experience and the achievements that truly reflect you!

Interview date: Monday 19th October 2026

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies.

Coventry City Council

Attached documents

• Job Description and Personal Specification
• Coventry City Council Application Process.pdf