Early Years Registration and Support Officer

**Job no**: 495796
**Work type**: Permanent Full-time
**Location**: Knox Civic Centre
**Categories**: Children's Services

**Your new role**:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Early Years Department from January 2025. As the Early Years Facility and Contracts Advocate you will join the new Early Years Partnerships Team that is largely focused on supporting Early Years Service Providers (internal and external) within the municipality to ensure the children and families in Knox can access quality services.

This position will undertake the administration of the Kindergarten Central Enrolment process for registrations and allocation into sessional kindergarten programs, liaising with families of children attending and registering for sessional kindergarten and maintaining up to date data in relation to the provision of sessional kindergarten. The role will also provide administrative support to the Strategic Planning and Partnerships Team.

This is a Band 4 classified role, remuneration will be $71,212.94 - $75,849.47 (depending on experience) plus superannuation in accordance with the superannuation guarantee.

**What you will need to thrive**

The key selection criteria for this role are:

- Demonstrated relevant experience in business administration
- Demonstrated experience in providing high quality and responsive customer service.
- Understanding of administrative and funding requirements of early years services, in particular kindergartens.
- Relevant experience in the use of databases such as Central Registration System, Pathways and TRIM is desirable or the ability to learn and implement new software systems.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and ability to prioritise and organize workload to meet deadlines and competing demands.

Please provide a resume and brief cover letter addressing the ‘what you need to thrive’ section from the to outline how your experience and skills relate to the role.

To view a copy of the please visit our Knox City Council Careers Page.

**Why Us**:
At Knox, making a difference to others and our community is at the heart of everything we do. We are inspired by empowering our community inside and out to thrive and prosper through living our values. We support hybrid and flexible working and embrace diverse and inclusive environments. We succeed by recruiting for excellence through investing in our people, encouraging their unique talents and supporting them to bring their whole selves to work.

We believe in our people and provide a supportive, driven and inclusive culture we are proud of, that focuses on wellbeing.

Beyond that, we also offer:

- accrued days off for full time employees;
- growth and learning opportunities;
- career development;
- reward and recognition programs; and,
- a supportive Employee Assistance Program.

To view the inherent requirements for this position please see attachment below.
- Knox City Council has zero tolerance for child abuse and all forms of harm to children. All children and young people who access our services, programs, events and facilities have the right to feel safe and be safe. This includes spaces owned or managed by Council. We take the wellbeing and safety of children and young people in our care seriously. We maintain a child safe organisation by embedding the protection of children into everyday thinking and practice. All Knox City Council employees, contractors and volunteers are responsible for ensuring children and young people are valued, heard and protected from abuse._

Knox City Council acknowledges our offices are located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation.

**Advertised**: 25 Nov 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 08 Dec 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time