BestStart Tory Street Wellington

Centre manager

Are you ready to step up and make your mark? This unique opportunity provides you with the chance to utilise your sound leadership skills and gain valuable experience, whilst covering maternity leave. 
  
Our BestStart vision is to bring together children, whānau and teachers from the many cultures of our vibrant city.  

As centre manager, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that the centre operates as a high-performing centre based on quality and genuine interactions between staff, children and family. You’ll need to be a real people-person, with experience of building and maintaining strong team, community and parent relations. You will role model excellent leadership qualities, inspiring and motivating others to do the same. Alongside this, you’ll be responsible for meeting administrative expectations, compliance requirements and striving to achieve financial performance targets.  

As our ideal candidate, you will have:

• A passion for building meaningful relationships with children and their families
• A drive to provide learning opportunities that extend beyond the centre, out into the wider community
• An ability to set a 'big picture' direction, while making sure the day-to-day details are attended to
• Sound business acumen and competence in IT applications and social media utilisation
• A real vision as to what you would like to achieve as the leader of a successful centre
• A BEd/Dip Tch Level 7 (ECE) and current certification
• Proven recent success in an educational management or leadership position.

You will be well-supported by regular visits and communications from our area manager, with ongoing training and development opportunities within the region and nationally. Your efforts will be rewarded through a competitive salary, and subsidised medical care, childcare, and career advancement opportunities.

To find out more about this fantastic leadership opportunity, please contact Rose-Anne for a confidential discussion or apply online via the BestStart Careers page.