City of Greater Geelong Hiring for Coordinator Early Childhood Education at Geelong, Victoria, Australia Full Time

Improving quality: Lead the charge in enhancing the quality of all aspects of our childhood education services. Implement strategies that create an environment where children feel safe, respected and motivate to learn.

Team collaboration: Foster a positive and collaborative culture among our teams. Work together to promote growth and learning for everyone involved, ensuring a harmonious and supportive work environment.

Compliance management: Take charge of ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, risk, and policy requirements. Your attention to detail will contribute to maintaining a high standard in all aspects of our services.

Strategic planning: Utilise your wealth of experience and knowledge in early years to inform Council’s strategic and business planning. Contribute to shaping the future direction of our childhood education services.

Collaborative team environment: You will be part of a dedicated team of Family Services Coordinators responsible for the coordination, planning, development, implementation, and delivery of early childhood services, programs, and projects. As an Early Childhood Coordinator, you will provide strategic leadership and management support to Team Leaders and Centre Managers.

Community Engagement: Forge strong relationships with parents, local government, and other service organisations. Collaborate internally within Council and externally with local stakeholders, government bodies, and the community to strengthen service delivery.

Work type: Temporary Full Time (12 months)

Classification: Band 8 $115,035 – $127,911 (pa plus super)

Key skills:

• Proven experience and qualifications early childhood education
• Strong leadership and management skills
• Knowledge of legal, regulatory, and policy requirements
• Strategic thinking and business planning capabilities
• Risk and financial management expertise
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

The health and safety of our people is our highest priority. It is our current policy to ask for your COVID-19 vaccination status. You have the right not to disclose your vaccination status, and successful candidates who are not vaccinated or do not want to disclose will go through a simple risk assessment process.

Join us in creating a bright future for our children through exceptional early childhood education services. If this sounds like the role for you, then click apply now!

Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong

At the City of Greater Geelong, we are committed to working together for a thriving community. We do this by delivering over 130 services to our rapidly growing population and working hard to protect and improve what it is that makes Greater Geelong on Wadawurrung Country such a great place to live, work and study.

We’re going through an exciting period of change that will help us serve our community better. From digital modernisation to the contemporary, sustainable office we’ve built in Central Geelong, now more than ever is a great time to join our team at the City of Greater Geelong.

Our Community is made up of diverse people from all walks of life, and it’s important to us that our workforce represents and celebrates this strength.

We encourage great people from all backgrounds to join us. We encourage authenticity, because inclusion makes us stronger.

If you’re excited about working together to create a Clever and Creative Greater Geelong, and joining a workplace where all people can thrive, then hit apply – we’d love to meet you!

We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse culture and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability.

A career with us

Central Geelong-based City employees are now based in our new Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal. Meaning ‘speak and talk together’ in local Wadawurrung language. Wurriki Nyal sets the benchmark for what a sustainable, inclusive and culturally safe workplace can be, including industry leading sustainability standards, a flexible and people-focused design, safe and inclusive spaces and public realm.

We’re committed to supporting better accessibility for our customers and our people. We encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments or additional support you may require during the recruitment process, as well as how this role can be flexible for you.

We offer:

• salary sacrificing and novated lease options
• cultural and ceremonial leave
• study leave
• paid parental leave (16 weeks primary and six weeks secondary) and superannuation payments on all 52 weeks primary parental leave
• IVF, surrogate and miscarriage bereavement leave
• training and career development opportunities
• a healthy and safe environment
• our employee wellbeing program
• corporate membership rates at Swim Sport and Leisure facilities
• unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning

Applications and Enquiries

Click the Position Description link to view more information about this position.

Enquiries: Pam Newton – Manage Family Services | Pam.Newton2@geelongcity.vic.gov.au

Click the Apply button to submit your application or find out more about this opportunity. If we can assist you with any reasonable adjustments in order to submit your application for this role, please contact the Talent Acquisition team via email at careers@geelongcity.vic.gov.au noting your preferred method of communication and contact details and a member of the team will be in touch.

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To obtain a copy of the position description, please visit https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/employment/default.aspx