Early Childhood Education Manager
1 day ago
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.
**Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.**
We’re on the lookout for a passionate Early Childhood Education Manager to join our Children’s Services team and support our wonderful childcare centres across Queensland. In this role, you’ll play a key part in managing operations in your portfolio, making sure our early childhood services and programs are delivered to the highest standards. Together, we’ll bring C&K’s vision, values, and priorities to life for children, families, and communities.
- Full time - 38 hours per week Monday to Friday
- Fixed term contract until 14 November 2025 with possible extension
- Applicants must be prepared to travel across the 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:
- 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._
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