Lead Expert Early Childhood Education
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About the Role
The Lead Expert Child Journey provides senior technical and strategic advice to the Director of the Child Journey Department while managing and taking full ownership of assigned.
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Responsibilities
- Advise the Department Director on early childhood education, child development, wellbeing, safeguarding, inclusion, family engagement, registration, health, nutrition, and community support
- Manage assigned projects, programs, initiatives, and special assignments from concept development through implementation, evaluation, and completion
- Translate strategic priorities, research findings, and expert recommendations into practical policies, programs, frameworks, and implementation plans
- Coordinate projects and activities across the Department's sections and other relevant organizational units
- Lead multidisciplinary project teams, working groups, specialists, consultants, service providers, and external partners
- Prepare executive reports, briefing papers, presentations, policy papers, recommendations, and decision support documents
Requirements
- Expertise in early childhood education, child development, and related areas
- Experience in project and program management
- Ability to provide strategic and technical advice
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent stakeholder and relationship management
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Role Overview
- The Lead Expert Child Journey provides senior technical and strategic advice to the Director of the Child Journey Department while managing and taking full ownership of assigned projects, initiatives, programs, and special assignments.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Advise the Department Director on early childhood education, child development, wellbeing, safeguarding, inclusion, family engagement, registration, health, nutrition, and community support.
- Manage assigned projects, programs, initiatives, and special assignments from concept development through implementation, evaluation, and completion.
- Take full ownership and accountability for project scope, deliverables, timelines, quality, risks, resources, documentation, and outcomes.
- Translate strategic priorities, research findings, and expert recommendations into practical policies, programs, frameworks, and implementation plans.
- Support the Department Director in managing departmental priorities, annual plans, operational requirements, and high priority assignments.
- Coordinate projects and activities across the Department's five sections and other relevant organizational units.
- Lead multidisciplinary project teams, working groups, specialists, consultants, service providers, and external partners.
- Develop project plans, implementation schedules, action trackers, performance indicators, risk registers, and progress reports.
- Monitor delivery, identify delays or risks, implement corrective actions, and escalate significant matters with practical recommendations.
- Review proposals, policies, plans, programs, and reports and provide evidence based technical and managerial advice.
- Lead or support the development and implementation of policies, standards, procedures, operational frameworks, guidelines, and service models.
- Conduct research, benchmarking, and analysis of local, regional, and international early childhood practices.
Core Competencies
- Strategic and technical advisory capability.
- Project and program management.
- Ownership and accountability.
- Early childhood education expertise.
- Leadership and professional influence.
- Strategic and analytical thinking.
- Results and delivery orientation.
- Planning and prioritization.
- Problem solving and sound judgement.
- Stakeholder and relationship management.
- Collaboration and multidisciplinary working.
- Adaptability and resilience.
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