Group Leader, Support

**Date Posted**:April 28th, 2025
**Position Title**: Group Leader, Support & Inclusion

**Location**: Jules Quesnel YMCA Kids Club (3050 Crown St, Vancouver, BC V6R 4K9)

**Terms**: Seasonal Contract, Full-Time; 35 hours/week

**Shift**: Monday - Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm

**Start Date**: June 27th, 2025

**End Date**: August 22nd, 2025

**Salary**: $21 per hour

**Benefits**:Free YMCA Gym Membership, Paid Vacation Days, and Sick Leave

**Reports To**: Team Leader

**This position is funded by the Canada Summer Jobs Grant.**

Looking for summer work with a values-driven non-profit organization?

Interested in facilitating fun and creative activities and games and making a real difference in kids’ lives?

Looking to build valuable career experience toward a future in childhood education?

**If you answered yes to any of these questions, we’re looking for you YMCA Day Camp Group Leaders enjoy working in a fun, fast-paced environment facilitating activities and games for children ages 5 - 12.**

**Who we’re looking for**:

- You want to work with kidsenough said.
- You have a positive attitude and can make any situation better
- You’re welcoming to one and all.
- You exude passion about delivering the best experience for kids.
- You’re flexible and open-minded.
- You have energy to spare.
- You’re a calm, cool and collected team member.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Facilitate games and activities for campers.
- Engage and build relationships with campers.
- Work effectively within a staff team to provide an inclusive environment of support, strategies, and resources for children with diverse needs to fully participate within the program.
- Help to build and contribute to a community environment of global supports and inclusion for all children through supporting their strengths and stretches.
- Help children navigate conflict and role model positive behaviours.
- Contribute to the development, integration, and maintenance of care plans within the program
- Ensure all campers are safe and supervised at all times.
- Follow all YMCA policies and procedures.
- To be Professional (be on time, appropriately dressed, ensure confidentiality, etc.)

In this role you will need to be ready to step in and assist any children requiring support to ensure their emotional, social, and physical needs are met, whether through supporting kids to transition, helping them to regulate or providing tools and strategies. You will need to be flexible and float to support where it is needed most. An important piece of the role is building relationships with the children attending camp. Training will be provided during summer training.

**Requirements**:

- Experience working with children ages 5-12
- Valid Emergency First Aid and CPR - B or C & AED
- 20 hours of training in Child Development and/or Child Guidance
- Available to work full time hours for entire contract
- Experience working with children ages 5-12 with additional support needs
- Experience as a Behavioral Internationalist or Support Worker an Asset

**Canada Summer Jobs Criteria**
- Be between 19 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment.
- Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person who has been granted refugee status in Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.
- Be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations. International participants are not eligible. Recent immigrants are eligible if they are Canadian citizens or permanent residents**.**

**Application deadline**: May 8th, 2025