Job Description
Assistant Centre Director - Busy Bees at Coorparoo
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Licensed Capacity: 113 places | Hourly Rate: $***** - $***** per hour
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Busy Bees at Coorparoo, is an established centre with strong enrolments, returning families and a stable long‐term team. We are looking for an Assistant Centre Director who is both family‐welcoming and highly skilled in safety, compliance and supporting a strong, established leadership team.
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Conveniently located in the heart of Coorparoo, our purpose‐built centre offers engaging learning environments, including a unique rooftop playground with water misters, balancing logs, sandpits, a slide, tunnel, cubby house and vegetable garden.
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Busy Bees is a leading global, early learning provider, offering high‐quality education in nurturing, purpose‐built centres where educators are supported to grow, lead and make a real difference in children's lives, with over 130 centres across Australia and around 3,000 employees.
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Bee Safe: Child safety is at the heart of everything we do and is embedded in our people, places and processes. Help us give every child the Best Start in Life.
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What you'll do
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Support the Centre Director in the day‐to‐day leadership and operations of the service.
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Lead, mentor, and inspire educators to deliver high‐quality education and care.
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Build strong partnerships with families and the local community.
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Support compliance with the National Quality Framework (NQF) and National Regulations.
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Contribute to curriculum planning, reflective practice, and continuous improvement.
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Step into the Centre Director role when required.
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What you'll bring
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A genuine commitment to child safety and wellbeing & alignment to our Busy Bee values.
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A Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care (or higher).
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Current Working with Children Check (QLD Blue Card).
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Sound knowledge of the EYLF, NQS, and Child Protection legislation.
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Leadership experience or a strong desire to grow into a leadership role within the ECEC industry.
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A collaborative, positive, and supportive leadership style.
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Why Busy Bees?
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Because we offer the B.E.E.S. advantage:
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We live by our values of Care, Quality, Service, and Value to make a real impact on child safety and quality.
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Strong community reputation, consistent word‐of‐mouth enrolments and many returning families.
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Long‐standing and highly stable team.
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Family‐friendly benefits; 50% childcare gap‐fee discounts for permanent staff, because your family should benefit too.
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Paid learning & development; First Aid, CPR & mandatory training covered, ongoing professional development, and access to our Busy Bees learning platform and ACCCO RTO pathways.
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Supportive leaders & inclusive teams; hands‐on leadership, strong tenure and a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration.
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Career pathways that grow with you; opportunities & training to progress from Educator to leadership, management and area roles.
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Global & national opportunities; connect with leaders across Australia and apply for our Global Talent Exchange Program (UK, Canada and Asia).
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Wellbeing support that goes beyond work; free, confidential EAP access for you and your immediate family, when you need it most.
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Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre‐employment checks (including WWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.
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We are proud to be a child safe organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Triple Layer Child Safety Framework: trusted, trained and caring people, secure, supervised and supportive environments, and transparent, consistent and transparent processes.

📌 Assistant Centre Director - Busy Bees At Coorparoo (Queensland)
🏢 Busy Bees
📍 Queensland