Brand-new 88-place centre opening November 2026
If you’re the person who keeps everything moving, knows what needs to happen next and enjoys being at the centre of a busy team, this could be your role.
As Centre Administrator at Journey Early Learning Lucknow, you’ll join the founding Centre Leadership Team and play a central role in bringing our new centre to life.
Competitive remuneration + applicable ECEC Worker Retention Payment
Journey Childcare Discount, subject to eligibility and applicable terms
Paid Birthday Leave
Professional development through Journey Academy
Genuine opportunities to grow within Journey
Work closely with your Centre Manager and Centre Leadership Team
Direct connection with specialist Support Office partners
Help establish the systems, routines and family experience of a brand-new centre
Be the operational heartbeat of something new.
Journey Early Learning Lucknow is a brand-new 88-place, five-room centre opening in November 2026 .
This isn’t a traditional front-desk administration role.
You’ll sit at the heart of centre operations, supporting your Centre Manager, helping families navigate their Journey experience and making sure the systems behind the centre run smoothly.
From workforce administration and rosters through to reporting, family communication and operational coordination, your work helps give the Centre Leadership Team the information and organisation it needs to make good decisions.
More than reception.
As Centre Administrator, you’ll support areas including:
Centre and workforce administration
Rostering and staffing information
Payroll and employment administration
Enrolments and family communication
CRM and data accuracy
Reporting and operational information
Compliance documentation and records
Purchasing and supplier coordination
Centre events and community activities
WHS administration
General organisation across the centre
You’ll also work alongside the Centre Manager, Educational Leader and Early Childhood Teacher as part of Lucknow’s Centre Leadership Team.
You’ll have an ecosystem around you.
You’ll work closely with your Centre Manager while also connecting directly with Journey’s specialist Support Office partners across areas including:
Capability and Culture
Finance and Payroll
Marketing and Experience
Centre Quality
National Safeguarding
IT Support
Learning and Development
The focus is partnership.
When something requires specialist knowledge, you’ll have people to connect with rather than being expected to work everything out alone.
What you’ll bring
Childcare administration experience is welcomed, but it doesn’t have to be where your experience comes from.
We’d like to hear from candidates with strong administration or coordination experience from environments such as early childhood, education, healthcare, allied health, professional services, schools, community services or other busy customer-facing workplaces.
More important is that you bring:
Excellent organisation and attention to detail
Confidence managing competing priorities
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Confidence using systems, databases and Microsoft Office
A warm and professional approach with families and visitors
Accuracy when working with records, rosters, payroll or financial information
Sound judgement and discretion
Confidence working autonomously while remaining part of a wider team
A proactive approach to identifying what needs to happen next
A genuine commitment to child safety and safeguarding
Why Journey?
At Journey, the Centre Administrator is part of the broader leadership structure of the centre, not simply an administrative function sitting alongside it.
You’ll work closely with your Centre Manager and Centre Leadership Team, while being connected to Journey’s broader ecosystem of specialist Support Office partners.
Through Journey Academy and wider opportunities across the organisation, you’ll also have the opportunity to continue building your capability and career.
At Lucknow, you’ll get to do that while helping establish a completely new centre from the beginning.
Ready to be at the centre of something new?
If you’re an organised, capable administrator who likes being the person people can rely on, we’d love to hear from you.
Join the founding team and help bring Journey Early Learning Lucknow to life.
Child safety at Journey
Journey Early Learning is committed to being a Child Safe Organisation and to creating environments where every child is safe, supported, respected and heard.
As a Victorian Early Childhood Employer, we expect all employees to actively uphold the Victorian Child Safe Standards, applicable child protection obligations and Journey’s safeguarding requirements.
Our Centre Administrators are an important part of the child safe culture of our services, including maintaining appropriate confidentiality, accurate records, professional boundaries and recognising when information or concerns need to be escalated.
Journey’s See, Act, Tell Safeguarding Framework supports our teams to recognise concerns, respond appropriately and speak up when something does not feel right.
All appointments are subject to Journey’s pre-employment screening and child safety requirements, including the relevant Working with Children Check and any other checks, qualifications or clearances required for the role.
Journey Early Learning is a Child Safe Organisation and is committed to the safety, wellbeing and protection of all children in our care.
