The right people. Found fast. Placed to last.
We take the search off your hands and bring back people worth meeting. Anila finds and screens Early Years and OSHC professionals for providers in every state, for every role from the room to the boardroom.
Trusted by owner operators, national groups and not for profits across Australia.
A vacancy costs more than the ad spend. It costs trust.
Families notice churn. The longer a Centre Director role sits open, the more confidence drains from the service: rooms run on casuals, the team stretches to cover, and the trust you have built with families quietly erodes. Here's the difference a specialist makes.
Running the search without us
- The applications come in, but the quality does not. Most are unqualified or unsuitable for the role
- Screening and chasing consumes hours, whether it's your evening or your talent team's week
- Generalist agencies send the same CVs to everyone and disappear after invoice
- Hard to fill roles sit open for months, and the centre's reputation carries the cost
- The best quality in the sector is not actively searching. Ads rarely reach them
With Anila in your corner
- One conversation to brief us, and we start sourcing immediately
- Every candidate arrives screened, compliance checked and genuinely interested
- A specialist who knows ECEC and OSHC, your award landscape and your regulator
- Straight answers on salary reality and market availability, even when they are not what you hoped
- Direct reach into our network of 11,000+ childcare professionals, including the ones not looking
What working with us looks like, phase by phase
Transparency at every step, so you always know where your search stands and what's happening next. These are the outcomes you can hold us to at every stage.
Certainty on day one
Before anything goes to market you know the salary reality for your role, who's actually available, and a realistic timeline. If a brief is not fillable as written, we say so and help you reshape it.
Straight answersReach you cannot buy
Whatever the role, it reaches people job ads never touch. Most of the people we place were not applying anywhere when we called them.
Passive talentA shortlist worth your time
You meet a small number of people worth meeting. Qualifications and WWCC are verified before an interview is booked, not after.
No CV spamMomentum to offer
Interviews are scheduled fast, feedback moves both ways within the day, and offers land while the candidate is still excited. No stalls, no ghosting.
No surprisesA hire that sticks
Structured retention check ins with both sides well past start date, so small wobbles are handled before they become resignations.
Long after day oneEvery role in childcare. Not a role outside it.
Anila was founded on 11 years of direct sector experience, and we only work in Early Years and OSHC. So we already know who's good, who's available and who's quietly open to the right move.
Room & pedagogical leadership
ECTs, Room Leaders and Educational Leaders who lift practice, hold their rooms together and stay.
Service & area leadership
Centre Directors, Assistant Directors, OSHC Coordinators, Responsible Persons and Area Managers who run compliant, full, happy services.
Executive & head office
Heads of Safeguarding, Heads of Operations, Heads of People, General Managers and CEOs, sourced through confidential search.
Leadership searches handled with discretion
When the role is a CEO, a General Manager or a Head of Safeguarding, the search runs differently: confidential approaches, careful shortlists and total discretion on both sides. Every executive search is founder led, backed by more than 11 years of direct sector experience, and run exclusively inside childcare, which means we already know the leadership market you are hiring from.
Executive & Head Office search →Growing, acquiring or opening new services?
For operators with volume hiring, workforce planning or ongoing HR needs, we become your fully outsourced recruitment team, shaped around your services rather than one-off placements.
Outsourced Recruitment →Your next Director is not reading job ads.
The strongest people in this sector are employed, busy and not scrolling job boards. We reach them directly, because after years of working only in childcare, we know who they are.
- A network of 11,000+Childcare professionals we already know, across every state.
- Confidential, direct approachesMade respectfully, recruiter to professional, without your brand attached until it should be.
- Compliance checked up frontQualifications and WWCC verified before you meet anyone.
What employers say when the role is filled
Verbatim reviews from employers, independently verified on Sourcr. We cannot edit them, and we would not want to.
Tell us about the role. We will tell you how it really looks.
A discovery call costs nothing and commits you to nothing. You leave with a straight read on salary, availability and timeline for your exact role and location.
Need more than a single hire?
We become your fully outsourced recruitment team: volume hiring, workforce planning and onboarding, shaped around your services and your growth plans.