child care coordinator
Child care coordinators organise child care services, activities and events after the school hours and during school hoildays. They assist in the development of children by implementing care programmes. Child care coordinators also entertain children and maintain a safe environment for the children.
child care coordinator child care coordinators organise child care services, activities and events after the school hours and during school hoildays. They assist in the development of children by implementing care programmes. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.47 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include child protection, handle children's problems, coordinate events, entertain people, monitor children's physical development.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £30,140 a year for Early education and childcare services managers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £25,935 to £36,539 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 2324). ONS rates this estimate reasonably precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Managers” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only child care coordinator, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 1. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- Education and Training
- Administration and Management
- English Language
- Psychology
- Public Safety and Security
- Personnel and Human Resources
- Sales and Marketing
What you'd actually do
- Confer with parents and staff to discuss educational activities and policies and students' behavioral or learning problems.
- Monitor students' progress and provide students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems.
- Recruit, hire, train, and evaluate primary and supplemental staff and recommend personnel actions for programs and services.
- Teach classes or courses or provide direct care to children.
- Set educational standards and goals and help establish policies, procedures, and programs to carry them out.
- Determine the scope of educational program offerings and prepare drafts of program schedules and descriptions to estimate staffing and facility requirements.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does child care coordinator do?
Child care coordinators organise child care services, activities and events after the school hours and during school hoildays. They assist in the development of children by implementing care programmes. Child care coordinators also entertain children and maintain a safe environment for the children.
What skills does child care coordinator need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include child protection, handle children's problems, coordinate events, entertain people, monitor children's physical development, implement care programmes for children. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace child care coordinator?
Our AI-durability model gives child care coordinator a score of 0.47 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.