At Woodlands, we are driven by a bold vision to deliver outstanding education that empowers every child, regardless of background, to thrive through access to exceptional early learning.

Our mission is to nurture curious minds, kind hearts, and confident future leaders through a unique blend of play based discovery and evidence informed teaching. Every day, we create meaningful learning experiences that spark joy, build resilience, and lay the foundation for lifelong success.

As a growing organisation, Woodlands is on a journey of transformation and change. This role offers the opportunity to grow alongside us, leading meaningful improvement at a service level while contributing to broader organisational growth. You will play a key role in reshaping culture, lifting quality, and driving sustainable outcomes as the organisation continues to evolve.

As a Campus Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading a high performing service, driving quality outcomes, strengthening culture and contributing to the continued growth and success of the organisation.

The opportunity

This is a key centre leadership role for someone who can balance educational excellence, quality practice with strong commercial outcomes. You will lead the service to achieve exceeding quality outcomes while also driving occupancy growth, strengthening the service's reputation, and ensuring long term sustainability.

Key responsibilities

- Lead transformational change to lift practice and culture across the service
- Drive continuous improvement toward exceeding outcomes across all National Quality Standard areas
- Develop and execute strategies to grow occupancy and strengthen community engagement
- Demonstrate strong commercial acumen through effective budgeting, forecasting, and resource management




- Build a high performing, accountable leadership and educator team
- Embed evidence informed pedagogy and high quality educational practice
- Strengthen partnerships with families, schools, and the local community
- Ensure compliance, governance, and operational excellence

About you

You are a strategic and confident leader who understands both quality education and the commercial realities of running a successful service. You are motivated by growth, improvement, and measurable impact.

You will bring:

- A Diploma in Early Childhood Education or ACECQA approved equivalent
- A minimum of 3 years of Director experience in early childhood education
- Strong knowledge of the National Quality Framework and quality improvement planning
- A track record of growing occupancy and improving service performance
- Sound financial and commercial acumenStrong communication, relationship building, and change leadership skills

Why join Woodlands

- Lead a service with explicit support to transform and grow
- Achievable performance bonuses aligned to quality, occupancy, and leadership impact
- Work within a values driven organisation committed to exceeding practice
- Access leadership development and ongoing professional growth
- Make a genuine difference for children, families, and educators
- Access to discounted childcare across our services (95% discount)

We are committed to child safety. We have zero tolerance for child abuse and are committed to creating environments where children are safe, supported and empowered. We actively embed child safety and wellbeing into our culture, our practice, our recruitment and decision making. All applicants are subject to child safety screening, reference checks and pre-employment checks in line with legislative requirements.

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📌 Centre Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 Woodlands Long Day Care & Kindergarten
📍 Melbourne