Job Role Description
The Centre Leader leads in developing strategic plans and structures to foster a culture of care and trust, mentoring,
collaborative professionalism and continuous learning within the Centre. He/She is responsible for managing and enhancing
Centre operations while adhering to industry regulations. He/She drives operational and programme excellence by developing
strong processes in strategic areas such as governance, partnerships, continuous development, curriculum and pedagogy.
He/She develops frameworks for sustained collaborative partnerships with stakeholders, possesses strong communication
skills and is highly influential. He/She leads in modelling the Centre’s mission, vision and values, and oversees the well-being
of all staff in the Centre.
Critical Work Function and Key Tasks
1. Manage manpower resources
- Lead the design of initiatives to establish a culture of collaboration within the Centre
- Review Centre's manpower plans
- Establish strategies to engender a culture of mentoring, coaching and capability development within the Centre
- Drive capability development and coaching initiatives within the Centre
2. Manage Centre operations
- Lead the development of improvements on systems, processes and operations
- Review the coherence of Centre’s initiatives, systems and processes
- Develop preventive and pre-emptive strategies for challenges faced by team leaders within the Centre
- Manage the budget for day-to-day operations in the Centre
3. Drive programmes and service excellence initiatives
- Lead Centre to develop Centre strategic priorities, culture and governance
- Establish plans and structures to engender a culture of continuous learning within the Centre
- Drive buy-in on vision, mission and values within the Centre
- Drive initiative and enterprise within the Centre
4. Plan and implement curriculum and programmes
- Drive the design of quality teaching and learning approaches beyond the Centre level
- Drive the enhancement of learning needs assessment processes and structures
- Align children engagement strategies in accordance with Centre policies
- Drive the development of quality classroom management strategies in accordance with leading practices beyond the Centre level
- Evaluate improvements made to enhance quality of learning environment
- Advocate the importance of appropriate health, safety, nutritional and hygiene standards and procedures beyond the Centre level
- Lead the development of new teaching and learning methods, tools and assistive technologies based on emerging trends in the sector
5. Build stakeholder relationships and partnerships
- Inculcate a culture of collaboration within the Centre
- Lead the strategic design of partnerships and collaborations with families and community
- stakeholders within the Centre
- Model professionalism when collaborating with families and community stakeholders within
- the Centre
- Represent the Centre to build business relationships
- Design Centre initiatives, families and community programmes and initiatives
6. Uplift professional practice
- Establish plans and structures to engender a culture of mentoring within the Cluster
- Drive professional development, training, workshops, educational initiatives and service
- quality improvement of professionals
- Drive buy-in on vision, mission and values within the Centre
