Centre Performance Coach - Sa

Description:

Role: Centre Performance Coach
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
With 15,000 Goodstart team members across 661 centres nurturing 63,600 children, we’re Australia's largest provider of early learning and care. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia's children and their families. From our centre teams to our support teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.
We're seeking a highly motivated and resourceful Centre Performance Coach to support and coach Centre Directors to be empowered, informed, innovative, adaptive and accountable leaders. To support and partner with Centre Directors to understand where they are at in terms of their capability and experience to enhance their personal growth and development.
This will be achieved through a ‘coaching with accountability’ approach with the Centre Performance Coach supporting the Centre Director’s continual improvement and progress.
Your Impact:
• Deliver coaching via a combination of virtual and in-person sessions to achieve best efficiencies and impact where it is most needed.
• Document goals, action plans and commitments by Centre Directors to support ongoing coaching conversations and accountability approach.
• Support and coach Centre Directors to be highly capable leaders and continuously improve on building professional relationships with team members and peer network.
• Support the development of Centre Directors holding selves accountable to exceed NQS and Goodstart’s standards as defined in the 2025 strategy
• Hold monthly My Growth Check-ins with your assigned cohort of Centre Directors with a focus on their ongoing professional development.
• Contribute to Centre Director performance reviews providing evidence of each Centre Director’s professional growth and capability build.
• Participate in regular coach connects and contribute to coach peer network.
• Action changes required to workplace environment to ensure compliance and health and safety requirements
What Goodstart Can Offer You:
• Fully Maintained Company Car or Car Allowance, Laptop and phone
• Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to better manage your work and non-work needs
• Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay
• Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
• Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
• Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.
• Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
• Gain significant investment in your growth and development with support, tools, training and experiences that will truly enhance the progress and outcomes for children in their earliest years.
• Be a part of a team and work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, inclusion and purpose
• Security and stability - as Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care and a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families
You’ll bring to the table:
• Early Childhood qualification and experience in a leadership role
• Strong business acumen across all domains of centre performance.
• Experience working in centres and with Centre Directors is highly desirable
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Open Driving Licence
How to apply
Click ‘Apply Now’ and submit your application.
We review applications as they are submitted. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible for your best chance to progress to the next stage of the process.
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all positions.
Have a question? Contact Adonica Lee via email: alee@goodstart.org.au
Agencies: Whilst we appreciate your interest, we are confident we can find a great candidate without external support.
Supporting our people and protecting our children
We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.
Safety is our priority and we will take any action necessary to ensure that all children can feel safe and be safe, and are safeguarded from abuse, neglect and harm. As a Child Safe Organisation, all of our candidates must have or obtain a valid working with children check.
Goodstart is Australia’s largest early learning provider. As a not–for–profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families. Our people are our foundation, together we are working to ensure children have the learning, development and wellbeing outcomes they need for school and life.