Intensive Support Partner

**Role**: Intensive Support Partner

**Location**: South Australia and Northern Territory (may be required to intrastate and interstate)

**Employment Type**: Full-Time - Fixed Term Contract - 6 months with possible extension.

We’re Goodstart

With 16,500 “Goodstarter” team members across nearly 700 centres nurturing 70,000 children, we’re Australia's largest provider of early learning and care. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia's children and their families. From our centre directors to centre teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

At Goodstart, we’re all about laying the foundation for better lives through amazing early learning experiences, and we know that we can’t do that without great people

The Intensive Support Partner is a crucial and key component in supporting centres who are in need of intensive leadership and support. The Intensive Support Partner will be an experienced Centre Director with expertise in performance turnaround in challenging situations. When deployed as the Centre Director, you will act as the Centre Director and Nominated Supervisor to support performance uplift in the priority areas identified by State Performance Leads. You will meet each Centre Team where they are at in terms of their capability and experience and support their involvement and contribution to the immediate performance goals and action plans required to course correct.

The Intensive Support Partner requires demonstrated experience and success in running a centre, centre leadership, business management, and pedagogical leadership. A sound understanding of how to track centres’ operational performance against targets and pull on the available expert services, tools, resources and strategies to support sustainable high performance is essential in this role.

This role requires an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) qualification to enable working in ratio if required, along with sound knowledge of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and National Quality Framework (NQF).

Your Impact;
Work with State Performance Leads to identify the priority challenges and focus areas for the centre and act as Centre Director / Nominated Supervisor.
Support Centre Leadership Teams to contribute to the development and implementation of action plans to improve performance in the priority focus areas.
Work collaboratively with state and national expert services to support performance uplift and centre team capability build in the priority areas agreed with State Performance Leads.
Empower Centre Teams in their areas of individual expertise and document goals/ action plans and commitments with Centre Teams.
Provide observational data and insights to State Managers and State Performance Leads in relation to Centre Team capacity and performance to support ongoing capability build.
Grow leadership in others by recognising and developing individual and team skills and capabilities.
Use reflective practices as part of a regular routine to promote growth and adaptive thinking.
Support and coach Centre Teams to action safety recommendations and remedy compliance concerns, pulling on state and national expert services as needed.
Ensure that appropriate policies and procedures are implemented, and that safety culture exists within the centre.
Participate in Health and Safety Training and mandatory training such as Emergency Management Training.

You’ll bring to the table;
Hold an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) qualification
Possess strong business acumen across all domains of centre performance and experience of supporting multi
- site teams
Current Open Driving License

What Goodstart can offer you;
Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
Gain significant investment in your growth and development with support, tools, training and experiences that will truly enhance the progress and outcomes for children in their earliest years.
Be a part of a team and work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, inclusion and purpose
Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduces your taxable income to increase take home pay
Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to better manage your work and non-work needs
Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.

**How to apply**:
Supporting our people and protecting our children

We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment w