Pedagogical Culture Lead

**Position: Pedagogical Culture Lead**

**Job Type: 1-year Contract**

**Location: Charles Bowman School Age Program - Bowmanville, Ontario**

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

**Rate of Pay: $27.90 - $29.90**

**Anticipated Start Date: May 2, 2025**

**Anticipated End Date: May 2, 2026**

**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.

**About the role**

At Compass ELC Charles Bowman you will work as a Pedagogical Culture Lead fostering a culture based on the practices of being present, living into a coaching mindset, and building relationships that create emotional safety. You will support and mentor some of the most passionate, caring, and wholehearted educators in the industry. You will help build an accepting and welcoming culture that invites all of our educators, families, children, and community partners to live in. You will work collaboratively alongside the Admin Lead to foster and support a program with a deepening culture of reflective practice and growing pedagogy that is aligned with Compass ELC’s vision, values, pedagogical themes, cultural elements, strategic plan and How Does Learning Happen. Hours will be based on program needs and funding. You will work 35 hours a week Monday to Friday. Shift start and end times will vary based on program needs between 7 am and 6 pm.

**Benefits**:

- Competitive wages (Provincial Wage Enhancements)
- Mandatory Defined Pension Plan - 3% employee contribution and 3% employer contribution.
- Health and dental benefits, paramedical coverage, and EFAP (Sparrow)
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- $500.00 per year
- Professional Development Opportunities (internal and External) (12 hours per year
- compensated in time in lieu if completed outside work hours)
- Reduced Child Care Expenses (20% discount)
- Paid RECE membership dues.
- Paid Time Off - starting at 4% vacation accrued annually on hours worked and 4% personal sick time accrued annually on hours worked
- Unpaid Time - an option for permanent staff to purchase up to 4 weeks unpaid time that is prorated off of 24 pays

**Some accountabilities associated with the role include**:

- Build relationships and work collaboratively with co-workers, families, community partners, and children to grow a supportive and inclusive cuture.
- Ensure 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.
- Engage and support professional learning that builds a culture of reflective practice and collaborative critical thinking.
- Encourage and foster the leadership of all staff in the team.
- Nurture a culture of collaboration, research & reflective practice that grows our community of learners and deepens our practice in alignment with our pedagogical orientations and strategic vision.
- Create systems and structures for focused pedagogical time with educators (including individual and team meetings, and intentional side-by-sides).
- Support the development & ongoing reflection of Professional Learning Goals.
- Support educators to bring visibility to children’s learning and competencies using the Cycle of Inquiry, Visual Representation Protocol through research, and Storypark.
- Observe and document children’s learning, bringing visibility to children’s competencies, theories, ideas, and curiosities.
- Support the program in creating and maintaining aesthetically pleasing, rich learning environments, both indoors and outdoors, to engage children's curious minds and lively bodies.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- A minimum of 3 years experience working in a licensed childcare environment
- Is passionate about early learning and care, emergent curriculum, and life-long learning.
- Is eager to grow your practice as a collaborator, researcher, facilitator, and learner.
- Has a natural disposition towards research and inquiry.
- Has a deep understanding of How Does Learning Happen, related legislation, Compass ELC policies and procedures, distributed leadership, Compass ELC’s foundation series, CCEYA (Child Care Early Years Act), Compass ELC’s Strategic Plan, and supporting a culture of a safe and joyful workplace.
- Is registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators and possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education to work in