Job description
Agency Department of Education and Training Work unit Early Childhood
Job title Assistant Director - Community Child Care Designation Senior Administrative Officer 1
Fund Restricted
Job type Full time Duration Fixed from 01/04/2026 to 30/06/2027
Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Darwin
Position number 43660 RTF 339173 Closing 16/02/2026
Contact officer Meg Hewett, Director on 08 8901 1355 or meg.hewett@education.nt.gov.au
About the agency www.education.nt.gov.au
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=339173
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates
people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or
job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go
to the OCPE website.
Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go
to the OCPE website.
Primary objective
To lead the identification, consultation, and development of culturally informed early childhood service models for Community
Child Care Fund Restricted (CCCFR) funded service, through community engagement, partnership with cultural authorities, and
evidence-based analysis, in order to inform CCCFR reform decisions and support sustainable service transitions, including pathways
into National Quality Framework (NQF) or alternative models and funding arrangements.
Context statement
The Early Childhood branch provides high level leadership of strategic policy initiatives and targeted programs and support to
improve the quality and integration of early childhood services to maximise outcomes for children and young people in the
Northern Territory (NT). Early Childhood also leads local and national early childhood policy reforms and key projects, provides
advice to the Minister and the department’s senior executive, engages with a broad range of stakeholders to benefit our clients,
and includes the NT regulatory authority, Quality Education and Care NT.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Work with project partners to lead the planning and delivery of culturally safe, community-led consultation, including visits,
meetings, and workshops, ensuring local priorities inform community-preferred early childhood service models.
2. Provide strategic advice on the implementation of the NT CCCFR Project, including recommendation on their ability to
transition into a regulatory framework.
3. Effectively lead and manage the NT CCCFR Project team to achieve outcomes in a climate of significant change and complexity.
4. Prepare reports, high level correspondence and ministerial briefings to the Director, senior executive, the Chief Executive and
the Minister and Australian Government.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Strong management and leadership skills with experience in the early childhood education and care sector at a senior
management level.
2. Highly developed written, oral and interpersonal skills, ability to consult, collaborate, negotiate effectively, communicate with
influence, including demonstrated application of innovative solutions to complex, multifaceted issues in a sensitive
environment.
3. Proven ability to deliver outcomes within tight deadlines, with high standards and attention to detail and manage competing
priorities concurrently.
4. High level ability to interpret and apply relevant legislation, protocols and procedures within a legal framework, including
demonstrated experience in moderation against a regulatory or quality framework.
Desirable
1. Relevant tertiary qualifications in public policy or administration, change management, business, education, early childhood,
communications or community development.
2. Knowledge of the strategic directions of the Commonwealth and the NT Department of Education, trends and developments
and associated policy and legislation and their application at local level in relation to early childhood education and care.
Further information
The successful applicant will be required to hold a current Working with Children Clearance (Ochre Card) notice and NT drivers
licence or the ability to obtain prior to commencement.