Site Lead

**Position: Outdoor Program Site Lead**

**Job Type: Summer Contract**

**Location: Selwyn and Pontypool Ontario**

**Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday.**

**Rate of Pay: $24.37 - $26.62**

**Anticipated Start Date: June 1, 2024**

**Anticipated End Date: August 30, 2024 with the potential to extend**

**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.

CELC Outdoor Programs will be operating out of the Dance Nature Sanctuary in Selwyn, Ontario, and in the Ballyduff Trails in Pontypool, Ontario during the 2024 summer season.

**About the role**:
As a Compass ELC Site Lead, you will work as a Registered Early Childhood Educator alongside some of the industry's most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators. You will spend your time engaging, connecting, and learning alongside children, families, and co-educators, as well as ensuring licensing standards are met and Compass ELC values are evident in all aspects of the program. You will model and grow an equity perspective and strive for a deeper understanding of cultural awareness.

As an Outdoor Program Site Lead you will be working 40 hours per week in a blended role as a site lead and educator for one of our CELC Outdoor Programs. You must be available for the program hours 8 am to 5 pm Monday to Friday. This position has the potential to renew beyond the contract end date based on program need, growth, and development.

**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.
- Being willing and confident to engage in difficult conversations with educators, families, children, and community partners.
- Having daily administrative and pedagogical time.
- Acting as a link for other program staff, connecting them to our HR, Finance, Pedagogy, and Operations teams.
- Ensuring that the program is meeting the requirements set out by licensing as per the Child Care Early Years Act, and in line with How Does Learning Happen, Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years, and Indigenous ways of being.
- Welcoming and training new staff into your program, including supply staff

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act, and licensing standards in a childcare program.
- A desire to grow and learn within CELC’s outdoor initiative community.
- 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**: