Child, Youth

**Date Posted**: August 5, 2025

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

**Location**:Bettie Allard YMCA (555 Emerson St, Coquitlam)

**Term**:Part-Time Permanent

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

**Shift**: Shifts vary but will include weekdays, evenings and weekends.

**Start Date**: September 2025

**Salary**:0-500 hours $18.39 per hour

501-1000 hours $18.94 per hour

1001 - 1500 hours $19.51 per hour

1500 + hours $20.10 per hour

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

**Benefits**:

- Training and Professional Development Opportunities
- Extensive Employee assistance program
- Reduced childcare rates and priority placement for YMCA Staff
- Be part of a charitable organization that positively impacts the community
- _Some benefits may vary based on region and employment terms_

**Nature & Scope**

YMCA BC cares about raising healthy and resilient children, ensuring youth feel confident and supported and helping people feel healthy and connected to others in the community. We believe that everyone deserves to be healthy in spirit, mind and body. Our state-of-the-art centres of community offer a range of health, fitness, and aquatics programs for individuals and families.

This position will report to the Supervisor, Child, Youth and work collaboratively with other members of the YMCA team to provide a safe and fun environment for our child, youth, and family programming and to provide a safe and welcoming experience in branch.

**Major Responsibilities**-**_in this position, you will_**:

- Lead programs for children aged 0 to 12 years old in a positive and professional manner
- Facilitate games and activities for various children’s programs to promote active and creative play
- Build meaningful relationships with children, parents, YMCA members, visitors, and colleagues
- Navigate challenging conflict situations using YMCA standards and procedures
- 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
- Strong work ethic and able to remain flexible
- Perform general administrative duties and record keeping responsibilities
- Ensure the safety of all members, participants, staff, and property by following YMCA policies and ensuring they are maintained among all members and staff
- Assist with training new staff/volunteers in procedures and practices
- Provide exemplary customer service to all members, guests and participants in all program areas by providing facility tours and education on current program offerings relevant to the member/family

**Qualification**-**_you bring_**:

- 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

**About YMCA BC**:
By igniting belonging and championing health equity, YMCA BC strengthens the foundations of community. With over 3,000 employees and volunteers, YMCA BC serves 150,000 individuals of all ages, backgrounds and abilities across hundreds of service locations, from the Sunshine Coast to Fort St. John.

As a charity, YMCA BC promotes equitable access to healthier outcomes by providing vital programs and services to help address many of our communities' most pressing social issues, including health and wellness, affordable child care and camps, mental health, employment services and community health.

We believe there is potential inside all of us and envision vibrant, healthy and inclusive communities for all.

YMCA BC is firmly committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging (EDIB). By taking an intersectional approach to our programs and services, the YMCA is committed to creating spaces and experiences where everyone feels safe, welcome, and like they belong. Learn more at bc.ymca.ca.

**Application Process**-**_r_eady to make a difference?_

**Application Deadline: August 15, 2025**
- If short-listed for a position: We will contact, you to move forward to the next step.