Michael Park Kindergarten
Kindergarten Administrator
Parental Leave Cover (One Year Fixed Term)

The start date of the fixed term will be Monday 12th October, the beginning of term four.

• Use your exceptional Administration skills in our friendly community environment.
• Beautiful kindergartens and supportive team.
• Enjoy great work/ life balance, working part time – 20 hours/week during term time only.

Michael Park Kindergarten is a licensed early childhood centre in Ellerslie, offering a Steiner/Waldorf early childhood education. It rose out of a community vision and opened on its present site in 1979. We are peaceful and beautiful ECE centre which feels like a little village offering a joyful and rich programme for children from 3 to 6 years of age. The Kindergarten is located next to next to a reserve in Ellerslie in Auckland.

Michael Park Kindergarten is inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s indicators for education, relevant for Aotearoa. At its heart is a spiritual and human-centred world view based on an understanding of the human individuality, as a being of body, soul and spirit. Our kindergarten is part of the wider Michael Park School community which has our students up to year 13.

Working 20 hours over 5 days, Monday – Friday and you will join our experienced team of passionate kaiako, helping us to support and enrich the lives of the tamariki and whānau in our community every day. If you are a registered kaiako this is a bonus, as our current kindergarten administrator often steps in the kindergarten for support.

You will be aware that ECE in Aotearoa is a highly regulated industry and compliance is paramount – as our Administrator you will help keep everything in order and ensure our Kaiako and Kindergarten Manager are well supported to do what they do best – ensuring incredible learning outcomes for Tamariki.

Typical areas of focus for your day-to-day would include:

• Processing enrolments and supporting paperwork.
• General admin support to the Kindergarten Manager.

• Ensuring that every child’s attendance, absence, pick up and drop off times are accurately recorded into our student management system Infocare.
• Following processes and maintaining the filing system.
• Invoicing of centre fees to whānau.
• Managing the funding processes for the Ministry of Education including RS7s, Census etc.

Our ideal administrator will have:

• Experience and/or a good understanding of the ECE and Ministry regulations and their applications
• Previous experience working with a student management system (we use Infocare)
• A strong administration knowledge with excellent organisational skills and a desire to improve processes
• A warm nature and a desire to be part of and a make a difference for our community of tamariki, whānau and kaiako.

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Write in application including your cv and covering letter to our kindergarten manager:
[email protected]

Closing Date for applications: Friday 10th July 2026