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Managers · code 1341

Child care services managers

Child care services managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the provision of care for children in before-school, after-school, vacation and day care centres and services. Tasks include - (a) developing and implementing programmes to enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of young children; (b) establishing and monitoring budgets and determining allocation of funds for staff, supplies, materials, equipment and maintenance; (c) overseeing and coordinating the provision of care for children in before-school, after-school, day and vacation care centres; (d) directing and supervising child carers in providing care and supervision for young children; (e) managing physical facilities and making sure all buildings and equipment are maintained to ensure the centre is a safe area for children, staff and visitors; (f) reviewing and interpreting government codes, and developing procedures to meet codes (e.g. concerning safety and security); (g) monitoring children’s progress and conferring with parents or guardians; (h) preparing and maintaining records and accounts for a child care centre; (i) recruiting and evaluating staff and coordinating their professional development. Example of the occupations classified here: - Child care centre manager

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 240 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • child care coordinator
  • nursery school head teacher
  • child day care centre manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

70.1
Holds up
against AI
Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 29.9 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 29.9 = 70.1

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

31.9
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

18.1
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 26.9 · hand skill 17.9 · cramped spaces 9.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 31.9 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 61.5, while the average is 29.9. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 61.5

    Preparing and maintaining records and accounts for a child care centre

    Medium
  2. 41.8

    Establishing and monitoring budgets and determining allocation of funds for staff, supplies, materials, equipment and maintenance

    Low
  3. 37

    Reviewing and interpreting government codes, and developing procedures to meet codes (e.g., concerning safety and security)

    Low
  4. 33.3

    Recruiting and evaluating staff and coordinating their professional development.

    Low
  5. 23.5

    Managing physical facilities and making sure all buildings and equipment are maintained to ensure the centre is a safe area for children, staff and visitors

    Very Low
  6. 19

    Overseeing and coordinating the provision care for children in before-school, after-school, day, and vacation care centres

    Very Low
  7. 18.5

    Directing and supervising child carers in providing care and supervision for young children

    Very Low
  8. 18.5

    Monitoring children’s progress and conferring with parents or guardians

    Very Low
  9. 16.5

    Developing and implementing programmes to enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of young children

    Very Low

9 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

One Australian job matches this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
65
AI does it for you
31

Helping wins by 34 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1341

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.7. This one is above that.