Assistant Director

4 days ago


Melbourne, Australia Explorers Early Learning Full time

Up to 50% childcare fee discount*
- Above Award salary incentives*
- Endless professional development opportunities

**About us**:
Explorers Early Learning is a family-owned and operated company with Early Learning Centres across Melbourne. Our beautiful learning spaces are designed to stimulate children’s creativity, imagination and sense of belonging.

Our philosophy is guided by the Reggio Emilia approach. At Explorers, our purpose is to nurture children's curiosity and exploration of the world. We believe children explore and grow in different ways, and our curriculum is structured to encourage children to embrace their unique sense of learning.

**The Role**:
To be successful in leadership roles at Explorers Early Learning, we would like to see experience in leading and managing teams. We value our educators and want to help them grow in their career within Explorers, which means providing feedback, coaching and guidance, and celebrating success within the team.

Along with supporting in the daily running of the centre we are looking for someone who can build relationships with the families, children, educators and the wider community

This is a full-time position where you need to be flexible to work both ends of the day so you can build those relationships with the families and the teams.

**How can you support us as the**
**_Director in Training_**
- In collaboration with the Centre Director, oversee and support implementation of educational program
- Management of service in the absence of the Centre Director
- Lead and develop quality staff
- Build and maintain quality relationships with children, families and the community
- Comply and exceed with all relevant regulations, NQS and Explorers policies and procedures
- Build and maintain high occupancy of the service

**Key requirements**:

- Diploma level Early Childhood education and care qualification in accordance with the Education and Care Regulations 2012
- Minimum 4 years experience in Long Day Care
- Minimum 1 year experience in a Management role
- A sound understanding of the Reggio Emilia approach
- Current First Aid training certificate
- Current Working With Children Check
- Working rights
- Visa / Passport
- Explorers is committed to being a flexible, safe, equal and inclusive workplace where we embrace and support diversity._
- We are also committed to being a Child Safe organisation and have zero tolerance to child abuse._

We nurture our employee’s careers We are passionate about building our people’s skills and experience and support the progression of our employee’s careers within our organisation.

We look forward to hearing from you
- _Terms and Conditions Apply_


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