At C&K, our purpose is to make a positive impact on children’s lives. It’s what we’ve been doing for more than 116 years. Through evidence-based thinking, hard work and true compassion, we’ve built a trusted reputation as Queensland’s leading provider of early childhood education. And as a child safe organisation, we put children's safety and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do, creating nurturing spaces where children can learn, explore, play and grow.

About the Role: 

In this role, you will provide leadership, mentoring and support across C&K to implement inclusive educational strategies and improve outcomes for all children.

• Supporting the development and implementation of C&K’s Inclusion Framework, encompassing proactive strategies and initiatives in relation to health, safety and wellbeing of children and educators at C&K.
• Providing strategic direction and support to assist children from priority groups to access early education and care services across Queensland.
• Working collaboratively to advance improved early childhood developmental outcomes - championing early education strategies in relation to vulnerable families and inclusion.
• Maintaining a strong and expert knowledge of current best practice, recommended guidelines and legislation relating to early childhood inclusive education and cultural diversity.
• Supporting C&K’s advocacy, research and innovation strategies in relation to providing responsive evidence based inclusive educational programs for children and families from vulnerable backgrounds.
• Supporting C&K centres to meet compliance with relevant legislation, regulations, education standards, and C&K policies, procedures and operational standards in relation to inclusive education.

Find Your Better Way and Enjoy the Benefits

Every C&K career helps children belong and grow. We’ll set you up for success with a range of benefits, programs and opportunities to help you earn, be well and grow.

• Find a healthy work-life balance with family-friendly priority access to C&K childcare centres and discounts of up to 35% of the gap fee.
• Be well and prosper with an Employee Assistance Program that includes financial counselling, nutrition coaching, individual counselling and specialist support for LGBTIQA+ and First Nations individuals.
• BUPA health insurance discounts
• Funded Blue Card and National Police Check.
• Take your career to new heights with professional development opportunities.
• Support the growth of our teams and earn a $1000 referral bonus reward.
• Plus so much more.

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor or post-graduation qualifications in Early Childhood education will be preferred  
• Experience developing and implementing innovative inclusion strategies for children in an education setting.
• Experience in developing and delivering learning content for educators to deliver an inclusive education style.
• An understanding or willingness to familiarize the National Quality Framework, and legislative and regulatory requirements relevant to early childhood education and care.
• Experience in successfully managing programs and projects.
• Experience in planning, supporting and delivering of new programs and key initiatives to improve business outcomes.

You will bring a passion for achieving long-lasting, high-quality outcomes for children, their families and the community alongside a team-player mindset - when you join C&K, you join a village of good-hearted, talented people, so you can lean on them as they lean on you.

Join us and find a better way with C&K - for children, for you, for always.

C&K is a child-safe organisation and all C&K employees are required to undergo a police check and not be a ‘Restricted Person’ or Suspended Educator under the QLD Blue Card System.

We welcome applicants who identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, have a Culturally and /or Linguistically Diverse background and/or those with additional needs.