Early Childhood Quality & Performance Partner - SA (12 Month FTC)

Role: Early Childhood Quality & Performance Partner (Internal Title - Support Partner SA)
Location: South Australia
Employment Type: Full-time, Fixed-term – 12 months

Use your early childhood leadership and NQS experience to support centres to achieve their goals and create meaningful outcomes for children.

If you're an experienced early childhood professional who is passionate about quality, enjoys working alongside centre teams and brings a calm, collaborative and strengths-based approach to your work, this is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact across Goodstart.

As a Support Partner, you'll work across multiple Goodstart centres, partnering with Centre Leadership Teams to build capability, strengthen quality and support centres to achieve their goals. You'll bring your knowledge of the National Quality Standard (NQS) and early childhood operations to provide practical coaching and guidance across all seven Quality Areas.

This is a role where relationships matter. You'll work alongside centre teams with kindness and a strengths-based approach, helping leaders identify opportunities, develop practical plans and build their confidence and capability.

Your Impact

You'll:

• Partner with Centre Leadership Teams to identify priorities and opportunities for improvement.


• Support centres across all 7 NQS Quality Areas.


• Conduct observations and provide practical feedback and guidance to centre teams.


• Develop and support short-term improvement plans, including 12-week action plans.


• Support centres through Assessment and Rating processes.


• Coach leaders and teams to build capability, confidence and ownership.


• Work collaboratively with State teams and expert services to support centre priorities.


• Maintain documentation and insights to support ongoing improvement.


• Work autonomously across multiple centres, balancing centre-based work with administration and planning.

The role will involve travel across South Australia, including regional locations, with the centres you support varying according to business needs.

What Goodstart can offer you

• 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.


• Salary packaging benefits available through AccessPay (eligibility applies).


• Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%).


• Fitness Passport - access to gyms and pools for you and your family at a heavily discounted price.


• Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA.


• Exclusive discounts on travel, gym memberships, Apple and Dell products, and more.


• Free annual flu shot (optional).


• Option to purchase extra leave for even greater work life balance.


• First Nations Support and Cultural Leave.


• 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.

What You'll Bring

• A minimum Diploma-level Early Childhood qualification.


• At least 3 years' operational ECEC experience, such as Centre Director or multi-site operations experience.


• Strong knowledge and practical experience across the NQS and all 7 Quality Areas.


• Experience supporting centres through quality improvement and/or Assessment and Rating processes.


• Strong understanding of the National Quality Framework, including relevant regulations and legislation.


• Demonstrated experience coaching and building capability within centre teams.


• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work autonomously across multiple centres.


• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a collaborative and approachable style.


• A strengths-based approach, with the ability to lead with kindness while maintaining accountability and focus on outcomes.


• Current Working with Children Check, Police Clearance and Nominated Supervisor registration.


• Current open driver's licence and ability to travel as required.

How to Apply

If you'd like to apply for this opportunity, click the 'Apply Now' button, which will take you to our careers website to 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.

Have a question? Contact Faith in our Talent Acquisition Team via email [email protected]

At Goodstart we are deeply committed to Reconciliation and encourage Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people to apply. For further information and support email [email protected]

If you are a placement agency or external recruiter, please refrain from submitting resumes to Goodstart unless you have a signed staffing agency agreement with us. Goodstart will not be responsible for or pay any placement fees for candidates submitted by agencies that are not approved suppliers.

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.