Centre Director (Contract Mat Leave Position)

📍 5 River Dr, Bellmere QLD 4510
👶 Licensed Capacity: 120 places
📅 Contract: 7-month maternity leave cover

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.

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.

We’re seeking an experienced Centre Director to lead our Exceeding service, Busy Bees at Bellmere on a full-time, fixed-term basis. This is a unique opportunity to step into a well-established centre with strong systems, long-standing educators and a high-performing culture already in place.

What you’ll do

• Lead the day-to-day operations of a high-quality early learning service.

• Drive occupancy growth and financial performance in line with budget targets.

• Build, mentor and retain a high-performing leadership team.

• Maintain compliance with the National Quality Framework and QLDregulations.

• Foster a culture of safety, inclusion, and educational excellence.

• Develop strong partnerships with families and the local community.

• Collaborate with your Area Director and support functions to achieve strategic goals.

• Lead performance management, workforce planning, and succession planning.

What you’ll bring

This role is ideal for a leader who has previously worked in an Exceeding service and understands what it takes to protect quality while continuing to grow culture, capability and compliance.

• A genuine commitment to child safety and wellbeing & alignment to our Busy Bee values.

• Diploma or Bachelor qualification in Early Childhood Education and Care (ACECQA approved) and WWCC.

• Proven experience leading a service (ideally 70+ place centre).

• Strong knowledge of the National Quality Framework (NQF), EYLF and compliance requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to manage occupancy, rosters and financial performance.

• Excellent leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.

Why Busy Bees?

Because we offer the B.E.E.S. advantage:
Better pay. Everyday balance. Education for growth. Support you can rely on.
We live by our values of Care, Quality, Service, and Value to make a real impact on child safety and quality.

• Lead a stable, Exceeding-rated service where quality is already embedded.

• Step into a centre with strong foundations, experienced educators and positive family relationships.

• Convenient location with cafés and amenities directly across the road

• 50% childcare gap-fee discounts for permanent staff, because your family should benefit too.

• First Aid, CPR & mandatory training covered, ongoing professional development, and access to our Busy Bees learning platform and ACCCO RTO pathways.

• Hands-on leadership, strong tenure and a culture built on trust, respect and collaboration.

• Career pathways that grow with you; opportunities & training to progress from Educator to leadership, management and area roles.

• Free, confidential EAP access for you and your immediate family, when you need it most.

Employment is conditional on satisfactory, rigorous pre-employment checks (includingWWCC, ID, Qualifications, Gecko Training, Work Rights, NQAITS register/Prohibited Persons & References) and child safety training, reflecting our strong commitment to safeguarding, equity, diversity and inclusion.

We are proud to be a child safe organisation, putting child safety at the heart of everything we do through our Bee Safe commitment.

Why Work for Busy Bees?
If you’re passionate about early learning, Busy Bees is the place to be. Although we are part of a global organisation, our company was founded by three families looking for better, more enriching childcare. Three decades later, we still keep the same values at heart.

We know that we couldn’t do what we do without the important people in our teams. We invest in our people and work with them to build career pathways that inspire.