Early Childhood Lookout Learning Advisor

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Fixed-term - Full-time

**Salary**: $113,022 - $136,747

**Grade**:VPS 5

**Occupation**:Education and training

**Location**:Loddon Mallee

**Reference**:VG/DE/SRS/1884168

We are excited to offer an 11-month fixed term position joining the LOOKOUT Team as an Early Childhood Learning Advisor, covering the Mallee and parts of Loddon Campaspe. This opportunity would suit someone who can work from either the Mildura or Swan Hill office and is able to travel to parts of Loddon Campaspe as required.
**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.
- The Student Wellbeing and Engagement Division is responsible for promoting and implementing regional and statewide consistency in areas relating to school services, student health, wellbeing, inclusion, and engagement supports. The LOOKOUT Centres address the educational disadvantage of children and young people in out-of-home care (OoHC) and raise the profile of the Out-of-Home Care Education Commitment. LOOKOUT improves outcomes for children and young people in OoHC through capability building of school staff and leadership teams to understand children's needs and strategies to engage them and their carers to best support their education, strengthening relationships between the service systems (DE, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, community service organisations and Aboriginal community controlled organisations) and improving monitoring and reporting of children in care, ensuring that they can be tracked and identified within the system and prioritised for support.

**About the Role**
- As a LOOKOUT Early Childhood Learning Advisor, you will work in alignment with the Early Childhood LOOKOUT Practice Guide to:

- increase participation and engagement of children in Out-of-Home Care (OoHC) with high quality early years services so that all children can have their learning, social and emotional needs effectively met before entering school
- increase capacity for system partners to support children in OoHC prior to school entry

**Attributes**
- To be successful in this role you will be motivated and committed to improving educational outcomes for our most vulnerable children, requiring strong influencing, diagnosing, decision-making and leadership skills. Your capacity to establish and maintain productive and collaborative relationships will be critical, as will the ability to deliver outcomes and influence change in a complex environment.

**This position is covering the Mallee and part of the Loddon / Campas pe Areas. The successful applicant may negotiate to be based in any of the NWVR regional offices but will be expected to travel across the NWVR region with overnight stays required.**

**Qualifications and Experience**
- Essential: Bachelor's degree Early Childhood Education or other relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in the early childhood sector is highly desirable for this role.
- The successful applicant will be required to provide a current Working With Children Check.

**How to Apply**

**Further Information**
- Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close** 11:59pm on 24 September 2025**

- Applications close Wednesday 24 September 2025 at 11.59pm

Posted
- 9 September 2025