Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor

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 co-instructor to lead birthdays
- Co-lead 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 hands-on 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
- **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_