Field Officer, Clerk Grade 5/6 – Multiple Roles

Field Officer, Clerk Grade 5/6 – Multiple Roles-000087YP

7 x Temporary full-time appointments for a period up to 30 June 2022
1 x Full-time ongoing appointment
Location: Various – Metro and Regional locations

Are you passionate about the health, safety and wellbeing of children? Do you have a strong interest in supporting services that support children to grow and develop? Would you like to play a key role in ensuring that early childhood services for children are safe and provide quality services? If so, please read on.

About the role
The role assists with the implementation of risk-based regulatory and compliance functions to ensure the quality of NSW early childhood education services, the safety of children and to foster continuous improvement in the sector. For services regulated under the Education and Care National Law and Regulations this includes a process of assessment and quality rating against the seven quality areas that make up the National Quality Standards, as well as undertaking monitoring and compliance functions, into non-compliance matters, incidents and complaints.

About the Department of Education

We ensure young children get the best start in life by supporting and regulating the early childhood education and care sector. We are the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population.

For more information about the Department of Education, please visit

Early Childhood Education

Located within the Department of Education, we are committed to driving educational and developmental outcomes for children attending education and care services, including long day care, preschool, outside school hours care, family day care, mobile and occasional care services. Our aim is that all children in NSW participate in high quality education and care services, including for 600 hours a year in the two years before school. Our work is based on established evidence of the benefits of early childhood education to enhance children’s cognitive abilities and social and emotional skills.

There are two Directorates for Early Childhood Education:

Early Childhood Education Quality Assurance and Regulatory Services Directorate

We have regulatory responsibility, through the National Quality Framework and our state-based early childhood legislation, to raise quality and drive continuous improvement and consistency in education and care services. Our Directorate regulates and supports over 5,500 services in NSW through monitoring, assessment and rating, enforcement and compliance and approval processes. We work with jurisdictional partners across Australia and the Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA) to ensure a consistent application of the National Quality Framework and we continuously strive to work with the education and care sector to improve how we regulate to enhance child outcomes.

ECE and Schools Policy Directorate

We manage the strategic policy framework for early years settings and K-12 education in NSW, including non-government schools. We do this by analysing, understanding and informing national policies on early childhood education, and by identifying and developing new strategies to achieve department goals, including innovative solutions to complex challenges. We directly fund early childhood education services and organisations to help meet the goals of the National Partnership Agreement on Universal Access to Early Childhood Education and support services to deliver high quality education and care. We carry out research and analysis on how to effect positive educational change particularly for Aboriginal children, children with disability and children in regional and remote NSW. We support needs-based funding for non-government schools, and drive Education for a Changing World programs and innovations.