Area Manager
Core
Oversee a portfolio of long day care and sessional kindergartens across Melbourne, ensuring operational excellence, child safety compliance, and financial performance.
Role type
Senior Area Manager (Early Childhood Education)
Builds
Early learning services (kindergartens and long day care)
Domain
Education / Early Childhood Services
Required skills
People management, coaching, financial performance management, knowledge of National Quality Framework (NQF), stakeholder relationship building, data-driven decision making, values-based leadership
Preferred skills
Experience as Centre Director, innovation in operational running, place-based approaches
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Drive team culture and performance, build stakeholder relationships with families and councils, enable practice improvement, use data for operational and financial sustainability, promote professional growth
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC