School Age Educator

**Job Type**: Permanent

Location: City of Kawartha Lakes School Age Team - Jack Callaghan Program - Lindsay, Ontario

Hours: 30 hours per week in a split shift. Up to 40 hours during PA Days, Winter break, March break, and Summer camp.

Rate of Pay: $21.34-$23.34 per hour. Please note this rate is before the eligible $1.50 split shift premium.

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 you will work as a School Age Educator alongside some of the most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators in the industry. You will spend your time engaging, connecting, and learning alongside children, families, community partners, and co-workers. You are passionate about early learning and care, emergent curriculum, and life-long learning. You are energetic, resourceful, and creative in your pursuits of creating learning opportunities, building connections, and engaging with children and families. You will work in a split shift role Monday to Friday from 7 am to 9 am and 3 pm to 6 pm with 5 additional hours per week in between the split shift. You will work full-time hours and up to 40 hours per week during PA Days, March Break, Winter Camp, and during July and August for Summer Camp.

Hours will be based on the needs and funding of the program.

Some accountabilities associated with the role include:

- Planning and implementing play based experiences surrounding children’s interests.
- Observing and documenting children’s learning.
- Building and maintaining relationships with families and including them in the learning process.
- Building and maintaining relationships with staff, volunteers, students, community partners, and school staff, including principals, custodians, and teaching teams in shared spaces.
- Working as part of a team with Co-workers, Families, Community Partners, and Children.
- Ensuring 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.
- Demonstrating respect for spaces by ensuring the safety and cleanliness of all equipment, furniture, and materials.

Skills and Qualifications:

- Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act, and licensing standards in a childcare program.
- Has experience working/volunteering with children and youth.
- Possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education, Compass Early Learning and Care, and the Child Care Early Years Act to work in a childcare setting:

- Clear Police Vulnerable Sector Check
- Standard First Aid and CPR Level C
- Updated immunization records (Or a signed and notarized refusal of affidavit or medical exemption).
- Registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators, or has a post-secondary degree in a similar field (i.e. Child and Youth Care, Recreation and Leisure, Bachelor of Education, etc.)

How to Apply:
To address issues of systemic inequity within our communities, we strongly encourage individuals from communities and groups that have historically been disadvantaged and/or marginalized, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous Peoples of Canada, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, individuals who identify as women and/or gender diverse, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and persons with lived or living experience of homelessness to apply.

Additional Information

**Benefits**:

- Competitive wages (Living wage employer) (Provincial Wage Enhancements) (Shift Premiums)
- Benefits - health, 80% dental, paramedical $1000.00 bundled, EFAP (LifeWorks)
- Health Savings Account -HSA- $350.00 per year
- Professional Learning Opportunities (internal and External) (12 hours per year compensated in time in lieu if completed outside work hours)
- Defined Pension Plan - 3% employee contribution, 3% employer contribution
- Up to $100 for First Aid and CPR Training paid for all permanent employees who have not let their certification expire
- Reduced Child Care Expenses (20% discount)
- Paid RECE membership renewal for permanent staff.
- Paid Time Off-
- 4% vacation accrued annually on hours worked
- 4% personal sick time accrued annually on hours worked
- Unpaid Time - an option to purchase up to 4 weeks unpaid time that is prorated off of 24 pays
- Family-focused policies
- Networks and Committees
- Apprenticeship Spo