Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor

1 week ago

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Engineering for Kids of Vancouver Island Full time
Are you passionate about educating kids? Are you a planning wiz who loves details? Does a flexible part-time position that allows you to work both from home and on-location sound appealing?

Engineering For Kids is hiring a

Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor to organize, manage and lead our birthday party program. Additionally, the position will support the Program Manager in the day-to-day business operations with a focus on our weekend classes and summer camps.


The Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor is part administrative work and part teaching; we believe that working in the field will provide you a deeper understanding of our organization, our curriculum and our clients.

Experience in both areas is essential.

Responsibilities:

This is a new role in our organization.

While we have a general overview of responsibilities, it's possible that responsibilities will change as needs are identified and as the role is developed (with your help).

Birthday Coordination

  • Book and coordinate parties, including but not limited to responding to requests, scheduling staff, preparing supplies, communicating client needs to staff, arranging for invoicing
  • Client service & follow up
  • Act as the primary contact for staff and clients, including on weekends
  • Promote birthdays through various marketing platforms
  • Grow our birthday program with new ideas and activities
Weekend Classes

  • Support our weekend classes and staff, including booking substitute instructors, communicating with facility staff
Day-to-Operations

  • Work with the Program Manager to create marketing campaigns and seasonal programming guides
  • Participate in staff training
  • Help create and/ or maintain procedures and documentation
  • Help update and/ or create programming curriculum
  • Manage supplies and inventory
  • Assist with managing the online staff schedule
  • Maintain regular communication with staff
Instruction

  • Work with a coinstructor to lead birthdays
  • Colead classes, workshops, camps, as needed, using EFK curriculum and lesson plans
  • Prepare and transport supplies to and from birthday/ class/ camp locations

Qualifications:

  • Experience planning, facilitating, and executing projects within a time frame
  • Strong customer service skills
  • Experience teaching children, ideally through handson learning activities
  • Experience with classroom management
  • Demonstrated leadership skills
  • Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, kind, and confident manner with both children and adults (oral and written)
  • Able to work both independently and in a team environment
  • Ability to quickly assess and problem solve a situation with confidence
  • Has a real interest in S.T.E.M fields (engineering, robotics, coding, Minecraft)

Requirements:

  • Access to a vehicle (you may be required to transport supplies to/from locations)
  • Has/ willing to obtain emergency first aid and CPR-Level C
  • Has a recent (within 4 months) vulnerable sector Police Information Check or is willing to obtain
  • Available on weekends and in summer

What we provide:

  • An awesome team of people to work with
  • Ongoing training and support
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Remote work opportunity (administrative work only):

  • A flexible, part-time schedule (up to 20 hours per week) with the potential for more hours in Summer
- $20/ hour + 4% in lieu of vacation pay

Who we are:
Engineering For Kids Vancouver Island brings S.T.E.M.

education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) to children ages 4+ through fun and engaging hands-on learning experiences that encourages creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking.

We teach after-school classes, workshops, parties and camps at recreation centres throughout Greater Victoria.

  • Members of visible minority groups and women in S.T.E.M are encouraged to apply_

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