Early Childhood Performance and Planning Advisor

6 days ago


Ballarat, Australia Department of Education Full time

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:$97,955 - $111,142

**Grade**:VPSG4

**Occupation**: Early Childhood

**Location**: Ballarat

**Reference**: VG/20014205

Early Childhood Performance and Planning Advisor

**Early Childhood Performance and Planning Advisor**

**Full Time - VPS4 - Fixed Term to 30 June 2027**

**About the Department**

The role of the Department of Education is to support Victorians to build prosperous, socially engaged, happy and healthy lives. It does this by supporting lifelong learning and healthy development, strengthening families and helping to equip people with the skills and knowledge for a 21st century economy and society.

**About the Group**

Schools and Regional Services (SRS) offers central, regional, and local expertise to enhance learning and development outcomes, supported by a diverse and geographically dispersed workforce. It comprises 17 areas within 4 regions, backed by 5 central office divisions, all collaborating to deliver improved outcomes for early childhood services, schools, communities, and learners, in line with Education State commitments. SRS regions serve as a bridge between the central office, schools, and service providers, ensuring smooth transitions for learners and achieving the department's ambitious targets. Each region includes divisions specialising in school performance, student wellbeing and early childhood support, working with area-based teams to tailor local interventions and practices. The 17 areas provide crucial insights into local trends and issues, facilitating effective policy and program development and driving child and learner outcomes across all services and programs.

This role is located in the Early Childhood Improvement Branch, Central Highlands Area, South Western Victoria Region, SRS. The Early Childhood Improvement Branch implements key government Early Childhood policy, initiatives, reforms, and strategies at a local level.

**About the Division**

The Early Childhood Improvement Branch ensures a dedicated team supports Early Childhood providers and services in Areas. The Branch has multiple responsibilities, including funded early childhood services, kindergarten programs and the implementation of the suite of Best Start Best Life reforms including, Pre-Prep, three-year-old kindergarten, School Readiness Funding and various key early childhood policies. The branch drives improvement in service delivery and outcomes for children across the Early Childhood sector.

**About the Role**

The Performance & Planning Advisor position focuses on:

- ensuring that all children and families have access to, and participate in, high quality early childhood education and care. The role
- building partnerships with key stakeholders,
- providing advice and support to local government, community service organisations and early childhood providers.
- monitoring service agreements between the Department of Education and funded organisations to ensure delivery of funded programs and organisations meet key policy and service agreement policies and funding requirements
- supporting the implementation of key government Early Childhood policy, initiatives, reforms, and strategies at a local level.

**Attributes**

Personal qualities and attributes required for the role include conceptual and analytical abilities and stakeholder management. We are looking for someone who enjoys working as part of a team and has exceptional planning and organisational skills. More personal qualities and their capability description are as follows:

- Collaborates and shares information
- Encourages resolution of conflict within group
- Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably
- Uses analytical and conceptual skills to reason through problems

**Further Information**

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close: 25 June 2025**

Applications close Wednesday 25 June 2025 at 11.59PM

Posted 11 June 2025



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