Michael Park Kindergarten Administrator
Use your exceptional Administration skills in a 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. It is a 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. The 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 an experienced team of passionate kaiako, helping to support and enrich the lives of the tamariki and whānau in community every day. If you are a registered kaiako this is a bonus, as the 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 the Administrator you will help keep everything in order and ensure Kaiako and the 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 the 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.
The 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 (they 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 the community of tamariki, whānau, and kaiako.
Write in application including your cv and covering letter to the kindergarten manager Stacey HERE.
Closing Date for applications: Friday 10th July 2026
This is a one-year fixed-term parental leave cover with a start date of Monday 12th October, 2026, the beginning of term four.