Child, Youth

**Date Posted**: January 2, 2025

**Position Title**: Child, Youth and Family Staff

**Location**: Bob Chan-Kent Family YMCA (45844 Hocking Ave, Chilliwack, BC V2P 1B4)

**Terms**: Permanent Part-Time

**Hours**: 4-24 hours per week

**Shifts**:Shifts range from 2-3.25 hours long; weekday mornings, afternoon/evenings and weekends

**Salary**: 0-500 Hours $17.94 hourly

501-1000 hours $18.48 hourly

1001-1500 hours $19.04 hourly

After 1500 $19.61 hourly

**Reports to**: Supervisor, Child, Youth & Family

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Nature & Scope**:
Will report to the Supervisor, Child, Youth and Family and will work collaboratively with other members of the YMCA team to provide a safe and fun environment for our child, youth, and family programming. This job is perfect for university students seeking short shifts before or after classes.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Lead programs in a positive and professional manner
- Build meaningful relationships through positive daily interaction with YMCA members, visitors, and colleagues
- Promote philanthropy through the YMCA’s annual Campaign
- Develop lesson plans for various programs and administer progressive evaluations for participants
- Ensure program design, lay-out, and offerings meet the needs of all participants at various levels
- Lead program delivery, while ensuring contents meet the appropriate criteria and outline
- Perform general administrative duties and record keeping responsibilities
- Maintain an atmosphere of achievement that inspires self and others to succeed at the highest levels
- Ensure the safety of all members, participants, staff, and property by following YMCA standards/policies/procedures and ensuring they are maintained amongst all members and staff, including all locker rooms and spectator viewing areas.
- Maintain a neat, orderly, and clean environment, including all program areas, common spaces, and washrooms
- Assist with training new staff/volunteers in procedures and practices
- Remain flexible - willing to learn new skills, alter shifts
- Attend staff meetings, planning sessions and training events as required
- Maintain regular attendance, punctuality and be appropriately dressed and well groomed

**Requirements**:

- Current Standard First Aid certificate with CPR level C & AED (valid within 2 years)
- Experience working with children - preferred
- Demonstrated high level of customer service skills
- 3 professional references

**Application Deadline: January 13, 2025**

The YMCA cares about the same things you do: raising healthy and resilient children, ensuring youth feel confident and supported, and helping people feel healthy and connected to others in the community**.**As the Lower Mainland's largest operational charity, we are 4,000 staff and volunteers providing vital community services that are having a positive impact on some of the community's most pressing social issues. Central to our success are:

- The **people** who unite behind our mission to help people reach their potential
- The safe and welcoming **places** we provide—from health and fitness facilities to childcare centres to camps—that foster a sense of community
- The comprehensive community **programs** that provide the skills, opportunities and confidence people need to achieve their potential

These people, places, and programs come together to create a sense of belonging and a supportive network that have proven time and again to help people achieve their personal goals. For some the impact can be truly transformational and can have an enormous ripple effect on those around them.

**About You**:

- ** Do the right thing -**You are caring, respectful, honest and responsible in all you do
- ** Put people first -**You believe in the strengths, perspectives and passion of people
- ** Keep our promises -**You do what you say you will do
- ** Lead by example -**You are courageous, speak with conviction, listen attentively and collaborate

**Competencies**:
**_ Commitment to Organization and Values: _**Demonstrates and promotes a personal understanding of and appreciation for the mission, vision, outcomes and values of the YMCA.

**_ Leadership:_** Motivates and inspires self and others to take action to achieve desired outcomes.

**_ Communication: _**Communicates in a thorough, clear and timely manner.

**_ Creativity and Innovation:_** Develops new ways or adapts existing ideas to improve programs and service.

**_ Team Work:_**The ability to work effectively with others to achieve optimal results.

**_ Product Knowledge:_**Thorough understanding of the components required in providing quality care.