Compass Early Learning and Care Career Opportunity

Position: Outdoor Program Educators

Job Type: Contract

Locations: Selwyn Township Dance Sanctuary and CKL Ballyduff Trails

Hours: Up to 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Rate of Pay: $21.34 - $23.34

Anticipated Start Date: June 24, 2024

Anticipated Contract end date: August 30, 2024

Come Work With Compass ELC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhfhVKNuGs

Please Apply By: February 26, 2024

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 Outdoor Programs you will work as an Educator in a nature-based program designed to challenge the senses, and inspire creativity, imagination, and child-led play. You will work alongside some of the most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators in the industry. You will spend your time engaging, connecting, and learning alongside children, families, community partners, and co-workers. 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 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Program hours typically run from 8 am to 4 pm, but may be subject to change dependent on program need and funding.

Some accountabilities associated with the role include:

• • Being committed to outdoor learning.
  • Being reliable, flexible, and enjoys working outside in all weather.
  • Planning and implementing play-based experiences surrounding children's interests.
  • Empowering age-appropriate risk-taking and deep play, based on process-oriented learning.
  • Observing and documenting children's learning.
  • Building relationships with families and including them in the learning process.
  • Working as part of a team with fellow Co-workers, Families, Community Partners, and Children.
  • Ensuring 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.
  • Demonstrating respect for spaces by maintaining a safe environment by providing checkups on the areas used in the forest.
  • Giving the children time and space to play in sensory-rich, experiential learning environments.
  • Using the environment as inspiration for creative play opportunities.

Skills and Qualifications:

• • Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act, and licensing standards in a childcare program.
  • Enjoys being in an outdoor environment in all weather.
  • Is familiar with outdoor programming and forest school methodology
  • Has experience working/volunteering with children and youth.
  • Possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education, Compass Early Learning and Care, and the Child Care Early Years Act 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).
  • Registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators, or has a post-secondary degree in a similar field (i.e. Forest School Practitioner, Child and Youth Care, Recreation and Leisure, Bachelor of Education, etc

How to Apply:

Please send your resume and cover letter to our HR team via our Bamboo Careers Page: https://compasselc.bamboohr.com/careers.

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. In keeping with Compass Early Learning & Care's commitment to providing service in a manner that is accessible to all, reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants upon request. We are committed to reducing barriers to employment and we encourage you to bring your true or whole self and way of being to the interview process. We welcome differences and we are happy to make meetings accessible based on your needs. Please contact Human Resources at 705-749-3488 ext. 217, [email protected] or [email protected].