Nursery Manager
REF 1696253
20.12.2024 | Dubai | full time
- General
- Location: Dubai
- Occupancy: full time
- To join : within 1 month
- Description
- We have a very exciting opportunity for a full time, qualified Nursery Manager to join our Bright Horizons Colchester Day Nursery and Preschool ready for its grand opening in March 2024!
The nursery will be a stunning 108 place setting in a beautiful purpose built setting which will feature spacious rooms and garden areas, perfect for plenty of outdoor teaching and learning!
We have several other Bright Horizons settings in close proximity, meaning you will be able to join us before the nursery opens if you would like to, and work in another setting until the opening later in the year
What you’ll be doing
Lead our nursery teams to deliver outstanding care to all the children in your setting
Through your inspirational leadership drive employee engagement, retention, and performance in the nursery
Work in partnership with Recruitment and HR to ensure your nursery is fully recruited, encouraging a diverse workforce
Role model and mentor your nursery team to ensure the highest quality early childhood practice and experience for all children, including children with special education needs and/or disabilities
Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead at the nursery, holding overall responsibility for the day to day running of the nursery and management of safeguarding and child protection policies
Work in partnership with HR to identify succession plans for the nursery team and nurture, create and continuously develop a pipeline of high performing colleagues, building the strongest talent pool in the sector
Work with the Regional Director, Finance and Marketing teams to identify and implement commercial plans and strategies to deliver FTE growth within the nursery
Commercial delivery of the nursery performance, optimising revenue generation and cost efficiency in line with staff ratio requirements, to deliver and exceed the annual budgeted EBITDA
Engage with the Local Authority to understand the local offer, to support practice in all areas of the nursery
- Requirements
- Full and Relevant Level 3 or above Early Years qualification (essential)
Experience within an Early Years leadership role (ideally as a Nursery Manager, Deputy Manager, Assistant Manager or similar)
Experience of participating with a regulatory inspection, leading to a “Good” or “Outstanding” outcome
Experience of developing high performance teams, with effective regulatory compliance, quality improvement, delivery of high quality pedagogy, innovation and service excellence
Confident decision maker, with ability to support change and the understanding of the complex relationship between business/commerce and service excellence within a regulated setting
Strong knowledge and understanding of Safeguarding, Child Protection, and the wider legislative requirements for working with children
Ability to build trust and strong working relationships with colleagues, parents and external partners
- Provisions
- Salary: to be discussed
- Employment visa provided
- Accommodation
- Publisher
- direct employer
- 50 - 200 employees