Pedagogical Culture Lead

Location: CELC Prince of Wales - Peterborough, Ontario

Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Anticipated Start Date: December 1, 2025

Please Apply As Soon As Possible

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 800 people working together on behalf of children and families.

About the role

At Compass ELC Prince of Wales, you will work as a Pedagogical and Co-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 as co-active leads to foster and support a program with a deepening culture of reflective practice and growing pedagogy that is aligned with Compass ELC's Vision Framework, Program Statement, Equity Statement, pedagogical orientations, cultural elements, and How Does Learning Happen. You will work 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday, in a split shift. Hours will vary based on the program needs, between 7 am and 6 pm. This role will have full-time hours during non-instructional days, including Summer Camp, PA Days, March Break, and Winter Break. The hours in ratio will be determined in collaboration with the co-Admin Culture lead and program needs. 

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 of unpaid time that is prorated off of 24 pays 

Some accountabilities associated with the role include:

• Lives into and supports a kind, caring, and joyful work environment. 
• Build relationships and work collaboratively in a co-active leadership model and with co-workers, families, community partners, and children to grow a supportive and inclusive cuture.
  
• Attend team, network, and All Leads meetings
• 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 in bringing 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 indoors and outdoors to engage children's curious minds and lively bodies.
  

Qualifications and Skills:

• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience working in a licensed childcare environment
• A minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience working as an Early Childhood Educator or Equivalent
  
• 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, Vision Framework, Program Statement, Equity Statement, foundation series, CCEYA (Child Care Early Years Act), collaborative leadership, and supporting a workplace culture that is safe and joyful.
• Is registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators and possesses the training and documents required by the Ministry of Education 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.
• Is familiar with CELC platforms, including StoryPark, Parent, and Bamboo.
  
  

How to Apply:

Please send your resume and cover letter to our HR team via our Bamboo Careers Page: 

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. In keeping with Compass Early Learning & Care's commitment to providing service in a manner that is accessible to all, reasonable accommodations will be provided for applicants upon request. We are committed to reducing barriers to employment, and we encourage you to bring your true or whole self and way of being to the interview process. We welcome differences, and we are happy to make meetings accessible based on your needs. Please contact Ryan Heath, Human Relations Coordinator  at ext. 217,