Lead a Brand-New Centre from the Ground Up - Newton, SA

Future Minds Early Learning Centre is opening a purpose-built, 100-place service in Newton Village Shopping Centre, in Adelaide's inner-eastern suburbs, in late 2026. We're looking for an experienced Centre Director to lead it from before the doors even open - shaping the team, the culture, and the way this centre runs, right from day one.

Future Minds is a single, purpose-built centre backed by an owner-operator who is putting genuine trust - and genuine authority - in the hands of the person who runs it day to day. This isn't a role inside a large corporate structure with layers of management.

The Opportunity

As Centre Director, you'll be the Nominated Supervisor for the service and the person families, educators and regulators deal with directly. You'll be involved from before opening - helping finalise policies, set up the educational program, recruit your own team, and get the centre ready for its first day.

You will help shape Future Minds' educational approach, bringing a hands-on, inquiry-based dimension to standard EYLF-based programming with purpose-designed learning spaces that go beyond a standard centre fit-out. You'll have real input into how that philosophy comes to life.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead, mentor and support a team of Early Childhood Educators and Teachers across four rooms (Nursery, Toddlers, and two Pre-School groups).
- Act as Nominated Supervisor and Responsible Person in Charge, ensuring full compliance with the National Quality Framework, National Law and National Regulations.
- Oversee day-to-day operations including staffing, rostering, ratios, CCS administration, and family communication.




- Play a genuinely hands-on role in recruiting your own educator team and finalising the service's policies and Quality Improvement Plan before opening.
- Support delivery of an EYLF-aligned educational program, including how our dedicated inquiry-based learning spaces are used to extend children's learning.
- Build strong relationships with local families and the Newton community from the centre's very first enquiry.
- Work directly with the owner-operator on the centre's establishment and ongoing growth.

About You

- Experience managing or leading an early childhood education and care service.
- Diploma or Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (ACECQA-approved), or actively working towards.
- Current Working with Children Check.
- Current First Aid, CPR, Asthma and Anaphylaxis certificates (or willingness to obtain before starting).
- Strong working knowledge of the National Quality Framework, National Regulations, NQS and EYLF.
- Confidence leading a team, making decisions and exercising delegated authority.
- Comfortable with the demands and the reward of opening a brand-new service, not just running an established one. Experience leading and building a new service from the ground up would be highly regarded.

What We Offer

- Above-award salary (based on experience), reflecting the scope and genuine autonomy of the role.
- A rare prospect to shape a centre's culture, team and program from before it opens.
- Direct, ongoing access to the owner-operator.
- A purpose-built, modern facility with dedicated spaces for hands-on, inquiry-based learning.
- The chance to build something and be genuinely recognised for it, in the Adelaide eastern suburbs community.

If you want to lead, not just manage - and you want to build a centre's identity from the ground up - we'd love to hear from you.

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📌 Centre Director / Nominated Supervisor (Adelaide)
🏢 Future Minds Early Learning Centre
📍 Adelaide