Coordinator Early Childhood

Full Time Permanent Position

Band 8 - Salary Range $123,831 to $138,629 per annum + 11.5% Super + ADO

Salary offered will depend on level of skills and experience.

About Melton City Council

The City of Melton is a community where everyone belongs. Ours is a vibrant and diverse municipality — one of the fastest developing in Australia. Our organisation strives to provide our community with state-of-the-art amenity and facilities, engaging health and wellbeing options, and support to become active members of our Lifelong Learning City.

We invest in innovation, offering professional and personal development, and generous leave and flexibility to staff, while also fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture. You’ll be able to work close to home in a dynamic setting featuring cafes and retail options set amongst heritage buildings and open green spaces.

The Opportunity

An opportunity has arisen for a leader to manage the Early Childhood team, reporting directly to the Manager Child, Family and Youth.

The Coordinator Early Childhood role will lead the Early Childhood team and service delivery including a range of early years service delivery and engagement, provider partnerships, and play a key role in community infrastructure, to meet Council’s goals, community, and customer expectations. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to build, foster, and maintain positive working relationships and deliver quality outcomes for Council and our community in accordance with Government standards, regulations, and requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders to ensure a collaborative approach to integrated planning and delivery of Early Childhood services.
• Ensuring the Early Childhood services operates efficiently, consistent with Council’s Customer Service Charter, all relevant legislation, Government guidelines, and Funding and Service Agreements.
• Delivery of a high-performance team culture and as well as providing support, coaching and high-quality supervision.
• Develop, monitor, and provide advice in relation to Early Childhood services business plans, risk management plans, policies, and budgets.
• Lead the development of early years infrastructure planning and activation processes.
• Ensuring reports and records required by Council and Government departments, including the Department of Education, are submitted within the required time frames.

To view the Position Description, click here.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• A degree level qualification in early childhood, education, health, welfare, social work, community development or related field with further formal qualifications in the field of expertise or in management, or lesser formal qualifications together with extensive experience, in the Early Childhood industry.
• Substantial experience in leading and coordinating people and managing staff in delivering high quality services.
• Well-developed skills in strategic planning, policy, business planning and budget management.
• Current valid Victorian Driver’s Licence.
• Must hold or be able to obtain an Employee Working with Children Check.

Culture and Values

Our vision for our community is to be: "A vibrant, safe and liveable city accessible to all" and that means there’s a place here for you too. Our organisational values represent us as an established growth Council and the values are reflected in everything we do; our decision-making, our actions and our service provision to the community. Council has a diverse and vibrant organisation and we’d love to have you join us to help shape a city for the future.

We are Vibrant MELTON. Our values are:

• Motivate
• Empower
• Lead
• Trust
• Open
• Nurture 

Benefits

There are a number of great reasons why our people love working at Melton City Council: 

Staff Benefits | Melton City Council

• 13 ADO's (Accrued Day Off) per year
• 5 weeks annual leave 
• Flexible Working Hours
• Extensive Career Development & Leadership Programs
• 16 weeks Paid Parental Leave (Super is paid during parental leave) 
• 3 weeks Paid Secondary Carer Leave
• Family Room available including Breastfeeding Facilities (Melton City Council | Australian Breastfeeding Association)
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Subsidised Uniforms

How To Apply

If you require further information about the position, please contact Matthew Welsh, Manager Child, Family & Youth on 9747 7260.

Applications must include a Resume and address the Key Selection Criteria outlining your suitability to the role. To address the Key Selection Criteria, you will need to write short statements explaining how you meet the criteria, or how you demonstrate the capability. We encourage you to keep your responses concise. 

To be eligible for employment at Melton City Council you must be legally entitled to work in Australia.

All successful applicants will need to undertake pre-employment requirements including but not limited to a satisfactory criminal history record check. Successful applicants must be able to comply with any COVID-19 Public Health Orders applicable to Local Government employees.

We strongly encourage job applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, LGBTIQA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. If selected for an interview and you require any additional support or adjustments regarding interview arrangements, please advise the contact listed above in advance.

Melton City Council is committed to being a child safe organisation and has Zero tolerance for child abuse. Melton City Council is committed to creating and maintaining a child safe organisation where protecting children and preventing and responding to child abuse is at the centre of our everyday thinking and service delivery.

 Applications close 11:59pm Thursday 21 November 2024