Early Childcare Educator

**Are you ready to join a team of professionals who strive to provide an inclusive environment, where building connections is paramount, and where children are at the heart of everything you do? Adventurers School Age Care is the right place for you**

We are a multi-site non-profit Out of School Care organization based primarily in Northwest Calgary and have been proudly serving our community for over 30 years.
- **Our mission**_ is to provide care for children in kindergarten through grade six that is safe, inclusive, and empowering. We aim to provide a valuable and often essential services to families, while helping children to develop the resiliency, positive self-image and supportive relationships that will aide them in achieving their full potential.

Passionate educators like you are the super stars behind our organization, and we believe it is important to be healthy in body, mind, and spirit. We are proud to offer our educators (and their partners/children) access to an industry leading, comprehensive health plan that is 100% employer paid, and includes:

- 100% basic dental coverage up to $2000 per year
- Prescription drug coverage up to $10,000 per year
- Regular eye exams and $200 towards glasses and contacts
- $500 per year in coverage for _each type _of paramedical, including mental health supports, massage, chiropractor, physiotherapy, and more
- Life insurance, critical illness coverage, and both short
- and long-term disability insurance
- No medical exam or questionnaire required
- **In addition to excellent health benefits, we also support our educators by offering**:_
- 5 paid sick days and 2 paid flex days per year
- Full time hours (40/week) at all our locations
- Access to free childcare at one of our programs
- Competitive wages and annual raises
- Opportunities for advancement - we promote from within
- A team of float staff who provide coverage for illness and time off requests, including for post-secondary studies
- A post-secondary grant to go towards tuitition of up to $1000 per year for anyone wishing to increase their certification level
- Comprehensive onboarding and professional development
- Reimbursement for criminal record checks and first aid

At Adventurers, we strive to maintain what we refer to as our _**Culture of Caring.**_We support our _teams _by offering flexible scheduling, ongoing pedagogical leadership training, a strengths-based approach to teamwork, and on-the-floor coaching and mentorship by our management team, with a focus on empowerment and professional growth.

We invite you to be part of an organization that is always evolving, where our programming is based on the interests of the children, and where we have embraced the philosophies of Flight and Emergent Curriculum. Let’s make an impact together and be the support that every child deserves

**Experience**:

- Childcare: 1 year (required)

Pay: $17.34-$18.39 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- For some positions such as our Front Line Float position, it requires an educator to be available to provide coverage at other locations. For this a reliable mode of transportation would be an asset. Do you have a reliable form of transportation or do you currently take transit?
- Do you have previous experience working with School Age children (K-grade 6)?
- Working in a Before and after School program requires educators to be able to work the split shift from 7-6pm with a larger break in the middle of the day while children are in school. Please let us know if this schedule is something you are able to commit to.

Licence/Certification:

- Level 1, 2 or 3 childcare certification (required)

Work Location: In person