Job Type: 18-month Contract

Location: CELC Janet Castle - Peterborough, Ontario

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Anticipated Start Date: June 1, 2024

Anticipated End Date: December 2025

Please Apply by: May 10, 2024

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About Us:

For more than forty years, our organization has been growing and evolving. Over those years we've expanded our vision of early learning and child care, enhanced our learning environments to truly honour our belief in children as competent and full of wonder, worked to develop an organizational culture that is strength-based and creates opportunities for growth and development for all of us, deepened our understanding of the principles of organizational democracy, provided care for thousands of children and their families, and experienced the growth of our organization from the three original to over 500 people working together on behalf of children and families.

About the role:

At Compass ELC Janet Castle you will work as a Pedagogical Culture Lead supporting and mentoring some of the most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators in the industry. You will work collaboratively alongside the Admin Lead to foster and support a program with a deepening culture of reflective practice and growing pedagogy that is aligned with Compass ELC's vision, values, pedagogical themes, cultural elements, strategic plan and How Does Learning Happen. You will model and grow a perspective of equity and strive for a deeper understanding of cultural awareness. Hours will be based on program needs and funding. You will work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday. Shift start and end times will fluctuate within the program's hours.

Responsibilities Include:

• Build relationships and work collaboratively with co-workers, families, community partners, and children to grow a supportive and inclusive cuture.
  
• Ensure the safety of staff and children by learning and acknowledging all children's diverse needs, and backgrounds, and creating equitable opportunities for all children to engage.
• Engage and support professional learning that builds a culture of reflective practice and collaborative critical thinking.
• Encourage and foster the leadership of all staff in the team.
• Nurture a culture of collaboration, research & reflective practice that grows our community of learners and deepens our practice in alignment with our pedagogical orientations and strategic vision.
  
• Create systems and structures for focused pedagogical time with educators (including individual and team meetings, and intentional side-by-sides).
• Support the development & ongoing reflection of Professional Learning Goals.
• Support educators to bring visibility to children's learning and competencies using the Cycle of Inquiry, Visual Representation Protocol through research and Storypark.
• Observe and document children's learning, bringing visibility to children's competencies, theories, ideas, and curiosities.
• Support the program in creating and maintaining aesthetically pleasing, rich learning environments, both indoors and outdoors, to engage children's curious minds and lively bodies.

Skills and Qualifications:

Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years experience working in a licensed childcare environment
• Is passionate about early learning and care, emergent curriculum, and life-long learning.
• Is eager to grow your practice as a collaborator, researcher, facilitator, and learner.
• Has a natural disposition towards research and inquiry.
• Has a deep understanding of How Does Learning Happen, related legislation, Compass ELC policies and procedures, distributed leadership, Compass ELC's foundation series, CCEYA (Child Care Early Years Act), Compass ELC's Strategic Plan, and supporting a culture of a safe and joyful workplace.
• Is registered and in good standing with the College of Early Childhood Educators.
• Possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education to work in a childcare setting.
  • Clear Police Vulnerable Sector Check
  • Standard First Aid and CPR Level C
  • Updated immunization records (Or a signed and notarized refusal of affidavit or medical exemption).
    

How to Apply:

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter through our Bamboo Careers Page.

Inclusivity and Accessibility:

To address issues of systemic inequity within our communities, we strongly encourage individuals from communities and groups that have historically been disadvantaged and/or marginalized, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous Peoples of Canada, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, individuals who identify as women and/or gender diverse, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and persons with lived or living experience of homelessness to apply.

We are committed to reducing barriers to employment, providing accommodations upon request and ensuring an accessible interview process. We encourage you to bring your true or whole self and way of being to the interview process. For assistance, please contact our Human Relations – Recruitment and Hiring Coordinator at 705-749-3488 ext. 217, [email protected] or [email protected].

Benefits:

• Competitive wages (Living wage employer) (Provincial Wage Enhancements) (Shift Premiums)
• Mandatory Defined Pension Plan - 3% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution.
• Health and dental benefits, paramedical coverage, and EFAP (TELUShealth)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)- $350.00 per year
• Professional Development Opportunities (internal and External) (12 hours per year
• compensated in time in lieu if completed outside work hours)
• Reduced Child Care Expenses (20% discount)
• Paid RECE membership dues.
• Paid Time Off - starting at 4% vacation accrued annually on hours worked and 4% personal sick time accrued annually on hours worked
• Unpaid Time - an option for permanent staff to purchase up to 4 weeks unpaid time that is prorated off of 24 pays