Assistant Director

3 weeks ago

Mosman, Australia The Kids Cottage Full time

**Assistant Director - Before and After School Care and Vacation Care Centre**

**The Kids Cottage Middle Harbour is seeking an experienced, proactive and enthusiastic Assistant Director to join our dynamic and inclusive team**

Full Time

Sydney, Lower North Shore

**Salary**: Children Services Award Level 5.1 to 5.4 depending on experience
- Support our community families assisting to lead a Not for Profit organisation delivering Out of School Hours (OOSH) and Vacation time professional education and care programs
- Demonstrate your educator and management expertise, supporting and guiding a team of educators with the Director
- Practice your strong communication and administration skills to assist managing all aspects of an exceeding centre
- Full time, flexible hours. Immediate start

**The Centre**

The Kids Cottage, Middle Harbour OOSH provides an active, fun and creative program for the Out of School Hours sessions, including vacation care during the school holidays. The centre is filled with collaborative and dedicated educators and a Senior Leadership team to support and enrich the children in our care.

**The Role**

The full time position of **Assistant** **Director, **at our well-established **Mosman **centre, will work alongside with the director to manage the delivery of a high quality, stimulating Out of Hours program that meets the social, emotional and developmental needs of the children attending the centre.

As part of the management team you will work to ensure the effective day to day centre management including compliance with all regulations and standards relating to the National Quality Framework (NQF).

This role is open due to the promotion of our current Assistant Director.

**To be successful in this role you will assist the director to manage responsibilities across the following areas.**

**1.** **Program Leadership, Compliance and Reporting**
- Ensure the program operates within The Kids Cottage Middle Harbour service policies, procedures and standards, meets the National Standards and the School Age Care Framework, My Time Our Place
- Facilitate the NQF process, including the Quality Improvement Plan
- Develop, implement and evaluate centre policies and procedures in consolation with staff, Parent Management Committee and all other stakeholders
- Create an inviting and enjoyable environment for the children and teachers to thrive and develop
- Model and promote a team approach within the OOSH Centre
- Create an environment which supports open communication, celebrates successes and recognises strong performance

**2. Business & Risk Management**
- Maintain all administrative systems and records, ensuring they are up to date and accessible
- Ensure the centre software system, Qikkids, is operating smoothly and all registrations, bookings and enrolments are complete
- Manage all financial management and operations of the centre, with accountant support
- Report the ongoing operations of the centre at the monthly Parent Management Committee including, but not limited to:

- Programme development
- Budgets, expenditure and income
- Notable incidents and accidents per legislative requirements
- Policy changes
- Resolve parent grievances, behaviour management and staffing issues
- Facilitate and assist with staff recruitment, adhering to Equal Employment Opportunity principals
- Manage staff compliance to Working With Children Checks; centre orientation, awareness of The National Quality Framework and Legislation governing their work, and adherence to Child Protection Legislation and the Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics

**3. Effective Communication & Relationship Building**
- Develop key relationship with school principal, teachers, parent committee and Department of Education
- Liaise with parents and develop effective communication to inform them about the program and their children
- Promote The Kids Cottage Middle Harbour within the local community
- Liaise with other professionals on matters to do with child development and wellbeing for all children

**To be considered for this position you will need**:

- Cert IV in Children’s Services, the equivalent or actively working towards
- Minimum 12 months experience working as an Assistant Director/ Team Leader in childcare
- Ability to meet the Department of Education requirements for current Child Protection training
- Current First Aid, Emergency Asthma Management and Anaphylaxis Training
- Proven skills and experience in the following areas:

- development and implementation of high quality programs to meet the social, emotional and developmental needs of school aged children;
- Understanding of developmental needs of school aged children;
- leadership, training and supervision of staff;
- use of initiative to problem solve day to day issues;
- strong communication skills;
- commitment to quality customer service; and
- Understanding of the relevant legislation and policies:

- NQF and National Law and Regulations;

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