This is a strategic lead post in the Early Education Development team at Leicester City Council, working alongside the Head of Early Years and Childcare. It covers sufficiency, sustainability and business support across the sector, including the annual sufficiency assessment and interim market position statements for senior leaders.
What the job involves
- Lead the council's statutory duty to ensure sufficient high-quality early education and childcare
- Ensure the annual childcare sufficiency assessment is undertaken and published
- Lead interim market position statements and report key information to senior leaders
- Engage childcare providers and stakeholders to shape the market in response to need
- Manage a small team of Early Education Development Officers
- Lead team meetings and provide one-to-one supervision for staff
- Lead sufficiency, sustainability and business support for the sector
- Respond to Department for Education policy and programmes affecting the sector
- Lead multiple complex work programmes and manage and deploy resources efficiently
- Make occasional visits to early years and childcare providers
- Attend events occasionally outside normal office hours
Experience
- Significant experience of the early years and childcare sector
- Sound knowledge of the early years and childcare sector
- Experience of managing national initiatives and programmes
- Experience of managing people
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication skills to build and maintain provider relationships
- Ability to work collaboratively across services and stakeholders
- Strong analytical data skills
- Strong finance skills
- Ability to lead multiple complex work programmes
What’s offered
- Laptop provided for remote and agile working
- Hybrid working between home and office
- Flexible hours within service demands
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