As Nido Early School continues to grow, we're looking for a passionate and driven Area Manager to lead the way in delivering exceptional quality and fostering continuous improvement across a cluster of our South Australia services. If you're ready to make an impact and inspire excellence, we want you to apply!

About Us

Nido Education currently owns, manages, and operates over 100 long day‑care facilities across Australia for children from birth to school age. We are passionate about providing exceptional quality education and care for Australian children and we seek to provide a professional and nurturing family‑type workplace that supports children through their emotional, social, and physical learning.

About the role

You will support the team, families and children to settle in to our purpose built Nido Services, embedding quality education, care and practices. You will be instrumental in providing families the very best start to their experiences in early education.

Responsibilities

- Supporting a cluster of around 5-6 services in the metro region of Adelaide
- Lead, coach and develop Service Leaders to build high‑performing teams, drive retention, and manage performance effectively
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and succession planning to meet current and future workforce needs
- Ensure strong compliance with all regulatory, child safety, and workplace health & safety requirements
- Drive quality outcomes by embedding curriculum standards, continuous improvement, and successful assessment and rating results
- Support operational excellence across services, ensuring systems, processes,



and commercial outcomes are consistently achieved
- Work alongside our Centre Directors and their teams to uphold Nido’s commitment and values

Benefits

- Enjoy an excellent salary package plus a car allowance, laptop, and mobile phone. Flexibility to work from home.
- Comprehensive induction and onboarding led by our Head of Services
- Engage in quarterly offsite/interstate networking and planning meetings
- Discounted childcare fees for your own children in our services
- Be part of a supportive leadership and team environment

About you

- Hold a Bachelor or Diploma in Early Childhood or equivalent (essential)
- Have experience as an Area Manager in Early Education
- Be passionate and dedicated to lead teams dedicated to the Reggio Emilia approach
- Possess extensive knowledge of long day care operations, including EYLF, National Quality Standard, assessment and rating procedures, budgeting, recruitment, marketing, and customer service
- Proven ability to lead, motivate and develop a team
- Strong time management skills both written and verbal
- Hold a valid WWCC or be willing to obtain
- Hold a valid driving licence in SA
- Any candidate employed from 1 April must provide a certificate confirming completion of the federally mandated ‘National Child Safety Training’ via Geccko, or must be willing to obtain prior to employment.

Nido Early School is a Child Safe Organisation. We have a zero tolerance to child abuse, and are committed to the safety, participation, and empowerment of all children. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants.

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📌 Area Manager (Adelaide)
🏢 Nido Education
📍 Adelaide