Join our Early Learning Team.

• LEAD. INSPIRE. MAKE A DIFFERENCE
• PT approx. 30 Hour Permanent part time per week
• $36.37ph. + super+ salary packaging

Your new role

Are you a passionate early childhood professional ready to take the lead? Do you love building strong teams, creating joyful learning environments, and making a real impact on children and families? This could be your next big move!

As our Service Leader, you’ll be the heart of the service, leading daily operations, inspiring educators, and ensuring children receive high-quality education and care in a warm, welcoming environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

We love building warm, meaningful connections with children and their families while leading and inspiring a passionate early learning team. From meeting and exceeding the National Law, Regulations and National Quality Standard to bringing our Quality Improvement Plan to life, we’re all about doing things brilliantly.

Every day is a chance to grow, improve and innovate, all while embedding the EYLF (Be-longing, Being & Becoming) and/or My Time, Our Place into everything we do.

If you’re ready to step into a leadership role where your passion, expertise, and vision matter, we’d love to hear from you!

Apply now and help shape bright futures, one child at a time

About Early Learning

You’ll be joining Uniting’s Early Learning directorate – a purpose-led team working across Victoria and Tasmania to shape better futures for children and families. We champion safety, inclusion, and quality in everything we do, and we’re driven by a deep belief in the power of early learning to transform lives and strengthen communities.

Benefits of working at Uniting

At Uniting, you’ll enjoy:

• Working in a values-led organisation with real community impact.
• Being part of team creating safe, nurturing and playful environments for children.
• A 60% discount for eligible employees on out-of-pocket childcare fees at Uniting learning services.
• A 30% discount on Office 365 subscriptions, and a 25% discount at our Uniting Op Shops.
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits that can be used for living expenses such as groceries, bills, clothing and streaming services.
• Saving on dining out and drinks with a meal entertainment benefit of $2,650 annually.
• Access to additional annual leave entitlements through our purchase leave program.
• Up to 10 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers (4 for secondary). 

Your skills and experience

You'll be right at home at Uniting if you're passionate about providing high-quality early learning experiences and share our belief that children's safety, wellbeing and development should always come first.

You’ll bring with you:

• Diploma in Children’s Services (or equivalent as approved by Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority).
• Current First Aid, CPR, Anaphylaxis and Asthma Certificates (or willingness to obtain)
• Current Employee Working with Children Check / Working with Vulnerable Persons Check (or willingness to obtain)
• Ability to lead the provision of a developmentally appropriate program for the children, in partnership with other educators, families and children
• An ability to plan, reflect, work and manage time effectively with minimal supervision
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the National Law and Regulations
• Experience in a leadership role
• Ability to learn and understand early childhood development theories

View the position description

How to apply

Click APPLY to submit your interest, and we’ll get in touch shortly. If this role sounds like a good fit for you, apply soon. We'll be reviewing applications as they come in and may close the advert early.

If you have any questions about the opportunity, please contact Barb Hall-Duggan on barb.hallduggan@vt.uniting.org.

About Uniting

We create real change in people’s lives by working in partnership with people, communities, governments and other agencies to reduce the impact of poverty, trauma and disadvantage.

We provide compassionate care for people facing tough times and personal challenges. We support children and young people to break the cycle of disadvantage. We help families keep safe, together and thriving.

For over 100 years we’ve been fighting inequality, opposing discrimination, and responding to the needs in our communities across Victoria and Tasmania.

Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

We are an inclusive, values-led organisation and proudly welcome people of all identities, backgrounds and experiences. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ people, and people with lived and living experience relevant to our work.

We are committed to inclusive hiring practices. You are welcome to share your pronouns and let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process. We are here to support you.

Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed to the safety, wellbeing and empowerment of all children and young people. We embed child safety in everything we do. Employment with Uniting is subject to relevant pre-employment checks, including a National Police Check and Working with Children Check.