Centre Director - Busy Bees at Aveley

Centre Director | Busy Bees at Aveley 🐝

Lead an Exceeding-rated early learning centre with a strong team, growing community demand and outstanding career opportunities.

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.

Our Bee Safe Commitment: 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.

🐝 Why you'll love this opportunity

• ⭐ Exceeding-rated service with strong demand and a growing local community.
• 🤝 Experienced, long-standing team with strong leadership and a commitment to quality.
• 🏡 Modern, purpose-built centre with excellent resources.
• 💡 Strong leadership support from your Area Director and national support teams.
• 📈 Career growth with national and global opportunities across Australia, the UK, Canada and Asia.
• 🎓 Paid learning & development, including First Aid, CPR, mandatory training and access to Busy Bees learning and ACCCO RTO pathways.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 50% childcare gap-fee discount for permanent employees.
• 💙 Wellbeing support including free, confidential EAP for you and your immediate family.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced and inspiring Centre Director to lead our Exceeding-rated service.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a modern, high-performing centre with a long-standing, dedicated team, strong leadership and an outstanding reputation within the local community. Situated in a rapidly growing area with increasing demand from families, this thriving service is well-positioned for continued success.

What you'll do

• Lead the day-to-day operations of a high performing 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 WA regulations.
• 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

• A genuine commitment to child safety, speaking up, always doing the right thing, and alignment with Busy Bees values.
• Diploma or Bachelor qualification in Early Childhood Education and Care (ACECQA approved).
• Current Working with Children Check for WA.
• Proven experience leading a service, ideally within a medium to large centre environment.
• 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.

🐝 Child Safety at Busy Bees

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.

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, safe, supervised and supportive environments, and clear, consistent and transparent processes.