The Early Years Lead plays a critical part in the provision of high-quality Early Childhood Education and Care for our communities. The role requires an experienced and passionate early childhood professional with a commitment to ensuring the best quality care and education to provision of children and families. They will collaborate with their colleagues and other teams within the organisation to ensure outcomes and objectives for development of the service are realised.

About An Cosán

An Cosán (Irish for “The Path”) is Ireland’s largest community education organisation. The mission of An Cosán is to bring about social equality and an end to poverty through the provision of early years’ supports, wrap around family supports and counselling services, community bases adult education and empowering social enterprise development. An Cosán is at the forefront nationally in the provision of high quality and inclusive early childhood education and care. The Early Years team in An Cosán has grown significantly to provide seven services in total across Dublin city. There are three services in Tallaght, three in Cabra, and one in Whitehall. Services are consistently recognised by external evaluation for their achievement of quality standards and the use of Highscope curriculum.