Job Description

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- Location Level 4, 70 Cordelia Street,South Brisbane, QLD, 4101,Australia
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- Employee Type Full Time
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Contact information

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- Contact Name Aimee Yates
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- Contact Phone (phone hidden)
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Description

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Great leadership isn't about managing more centres—it's about helping great leaders thrive.
n At Edge, our Area Managers are coaches, mentors and strategic partners to Centre Directors. If you're passionate about developing people, lifting quality and making a genuine impact across multiple communities, we'd love to hear from you.
n Reporting directly to the General Manager of Operations, you'll lead a portfolio of seven centres across the Sunshine Coast & Moreton Bay area while partnering with specialist Support Office teams including Property, Finance, Family Engagement, Marketing, Compliance, Program & Practice, HR and Recruitment.

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- Aroona
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- Peregian Beach
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- Peregian Springs
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- Morayfield East
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With centres spread across the Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay, regular travel and being visible within your centres will be an important part of the role.

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Why Join Edge?

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- Lead an established portfolio with the support of an experienced executive team.
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- Coach and develop Centre Directors rather than simply manage operations.
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- Build leadership capability and succession across your portfolio.
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- Influence quality, culture, occupancy and commercial performance.
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- Partner with dedicated Support Office specialists.
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- Work directly with the General Manager of Operations.
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- Competitive salary package with vehicle and hybrid flexibility.
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About the Role

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As Area Manager, you'll create the conditions for your Centre Directors and their teams to succeed.

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You'll:

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- Coach and develop Centre Directors to become confident, capable and accountable leaders
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- Build strong leadership teams and identify future talent and succession opportunities
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- Drive quality improvement, child safety and Assessment & Rating readiness
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- Support centres to achieve sustainable occupancy and commercial performance
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- Use centre performance and operational insights to identify where support or intervention is needed
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- Build positive relationships with educators, children, families and local communities
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- Partner with Centre Directors through challenges including people leadership, performance, staffing and centre operations
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- Work collaboratively with specialist Support Office teams to remove barriers and improve centre performance
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- Partner with the General Manager of Operations on strategic and operational priorities
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What Success Looks Like

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Success in this role isn't simply seven centres hitting their numbers.

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It's seeing:

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- Centre Directors growing in confidence, capability and accountability
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- Strong leadership teams developing underneath them
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- High-quality education and care delivered consistently
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- Child safety and quality embedded in everyday practice
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- Healthy occupancy and sustainable commercial performance
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- Meaningful coaching and support visible within each centre
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- Strong relationships between centres, families and Support Office
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- Future leaders being identified and developed across the portfolio
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About You

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You're an experienced multi-site operational leader who understands that your success comes through the success of the leaders you support.

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You'll bring:

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- Demonstrated multi-site leadership experience, ideally within Early Childhood Education and Care
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- A genuine coaching and mentoring mindset
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- Strong experience developing leaders and building high-performing teams
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- Sound understanding of quality, compliance and operational excellence
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- Commercial awareness and confidence working with occupancy, staffing and financial performance
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- The ability to adapt your leadership approach across different centres and leadership styles
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- Confidence having constructive and sometimes challenging conversations
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- A collaborative, authentic and values-led leadership style
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- Robust organisational skills and the ability to prioritise across multiple services
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- Relevant leadership experience and Early Childhood qualification/s.
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- Current driver's licence.
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- Working with Children Check / Blue Card (or ability to obtain).
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- Ability to travel regularly across the Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay portfolio.
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Child Safety

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Edge Early Learning is committed to safeguarding children and maintaining environments where every child feels safe, respected and valued. Successful applicants will undergo appropriate child safety screening and pre-employment checks.

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If you're ready to move beyond managing centres and instead develop the leaders who make them successful, we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Area Manager - Sunshine Coast & Moreton Bay (Queensland)
🏢 Edge Early Learning
📍 Queensland