Role: Senior Quality Advisor

Location: Flexible across Australia – work from a Goodstart office or remotely, depending on your location

Employment Type: Full-Time, 12mth Fixed Term Contract

Are you passionate about quality and compliance in early learning?

Join Goodstart’s Quality team and help shape safe, compliant, and high-quality learning environments for children. As a Senior Quality Advisor, you’ll provide trusted guidance, lead compliance meetings, respond to regulatory requests, and empower centre teams to embed best practice every day.

Your Impact:

In this role, your expertise will guide our network in meeting and exceeding compliance expectations under the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations. You’ll lead Compliance Commitment Strategy (CCS) meetings, respond to Requests for Information (RFI), and provide clear, practical advice to help centres remediate non-compliance. Your work will strengthen organisational understanding of legislative requirements, build capability, and reinforce Goodstart’s reputation as a trusted, high-quality early learning provider.

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
• Not-For-Profit Salary Packaging benefits which reduce your taxable income to increase take home pay
• 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.

You’ll bring to the table:

• A qualification in Early Childhood Education
• Strong understanding of the Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations and related early childhood legislation
• Proven experience within the early learning or childcare sector, ideally in a compliance, quality, or advisory capacity
• Demonstrated ability to interpret legislation and translate it into practical guidance for teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build strong relationships across internal teams and regulatory bodies
• Experience facilitating Compliance Commitment Strategy (CCS) meetings or responding to Requests for Information (RFI) will be highly regarded
• Confidence in developing and delivering training and capability-building initiatives
• A current Working with Children Check (or ability to obtain one)

How to apply

Click ‘Apply Now’ and 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 our Talent Acquisition Team via email recruitment@goodstart.org.au

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 deadlycareers@goodstart.org.au

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. Any resumes received from agencies or external recruiters without an agreement will be reviewed by Goodstart and may be shared with our internal recruiting team for their reference.

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.

Posting Notes: AUSTRALIA || Australia || Australia (AU) || | || Diploma - Children's Services or equiv || Full-Time