Educational Leader

Enjoy a permanent opportunity in our highly rated childcare centre
- Lead your ongoing professional development
- Attractive salary rates

**Unleash your potential as an Educational Leader at Guardian Childcare & Education**

Step into a role that goes beyond a job title—it's a purpose-driven opportunity to make a lasting impact on how we teach Australia's children in a rapidly changing world. Join us and become an innovator, an advocate for professional learning, and a driving force behind best practices in early childhood education.

**Why Guardian?**

✨ Lead your ongoing professional development through exceptional coaching, conferences, mentoring, and career advancement opportunities.

✨ Work in high-quality, well-resourced environments where you lead programming and collaborate on resourcing decisions.

✨ Build and influence professional capacity within our network, shaping teaching programs and practices.

✨ Collaborate with educators and teachers to share best practices, innovate through exploration, discovery, and play.

✨ Enjoy a competitive salary, generous childcare discounts, recognition and rewards, and an employee referral program.

✨ Benefit from WHEREFIT—2,000 discounted corporate offers for gyms, studios, activewear, healthy meals, beauty, and more.

✨ Participate in the Guardian Degree program with paid study, flexible work hours, mentorship, and course fee reimbursement.

✨ Stay prepared with paid first aid courses and renewals.

**Our Centre**:
Located in south-east Melbourne, our
**Mulgrave East** childcare centre is ideal for families in the surrounding suburbs of Notting Hill, Wheelers Hill, Clayton, Glen Waverley and Springvale.

Our Mulgrave East early learning centre boasts a light and spacious interior and exterior. The Centre’s herb and vegetable gardens are the perfect places to see our multi-age learning approach in action. The garden is a great place to learn about sustainability and responsibility, plus a connection to the natural world. Our high-quality, well-resourced outside environments also include a treehouse, a creek bed, a water play area, and natural play structures, all of which are places children are encouraged to explore and learn.

**Your Opportunity**:
✨ Lead the development and implementation of the curriculum.

✨ Support educators in delivering an exceptional educational program.

✨ Assess children's learning and development.

✨ Set clear goals and expectations for teaching and practice.

✨ Contribute to ongoing improvement through the Quality Improvement Plan.

**_To be considered, you should have:_**
- Tertiary Qualifications in Early Childhood Education (approved by ACECQA). Current Teacher's Accreditation/Registration.
- Proven knowledge of the National Quality Framework.
- Planning and programming experience
- Previous experience in the early years sector (desirable).
- Valid Working with Children's Check or state-specific equivalent.
- Guardian Childcare & Education values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We are committed to providing a workplace where every person is valued, respected, and supported to progress._
- We are also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection._
- The safety and wellbeing of children will always be our top priority, Guardian Childcare & Education has a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse or harm._
- Are you passionate about ensuring children have the best start to life? As an Educator at Guardian you will be part of a team supporting children to develop skills so that they can thrive in a rapidly changing world_