Assistant Director

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.

**Help Shape Futures at C&K Kedron Childcare Centre**

As our highly valued Assistant Director at C&K Kedron, you’ll be part of a leadership team who is creating a safe, supportive and engaging learning environment for children, their families and our wider community. As your career develops you will have the opportunity to take on Educational Leadership responsibilities and help shape the future of the centre.

- Monday to Friday - 40 hours per week with monthly RDO
- $39.1716 - $40.4543 per hour + Super
- Access to professional development and career growth opportunities

As an Assistant Director, you will:

- Support the Centre Director in leading a dynamic, inclusive, and play-based learning environment.
- Mentor and guide educators to deliver best-practice early childhood education.
- Contribute to strategic planning, compliance, and operational management.
- Build strong relationships with families and the wider community to enhance learning experiences.

**Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits**

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

- Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 75% of the gap fee.
- Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
- Funded Blue Card, Police Check and First Aid certifications.
- Access up to $35,000 in scholarship subsidies under the Qualifications Pathways Program (QPP) to provide you with the support and skills to progress your early childhood career.
- Plus so much more.

**What you’ll bring**

If you’re committed to guiding children’s early learning and development, we’ll set you up for success

We strongly uphold our child safety policies and procedures. To thrive and succeed in this role, you will have:

- A minimum of a Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care or willingness to commence studying that qualification.
- Approved Child Protection Training or the willingness to obtain.
- First Aid, CPR and Asthma and Anaphylaxis certification.
- Valid Blue Card or Exemption Card.
- A Police Check current within three months (or willingness to obtain one).

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

**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._
- Kedron, QLD_