Family Day Offers :
- Competitive compensation
- Generous vacation, sick leave and medical appointments
- Child Care discount
- Discounted GoodLife memberships
- Training & professional development funding
- Potential for career growth
- Employee referral bonus
- A positive and diverse work environment
Job Purpose :
The Program Facilitator plans, facilitates programs for families / caregivers and children from birth through six years of age, programming indoors, 4 season outdoors and virtual Facebook, Zoom, Storypark and doing live and making prerecorded videos of themselves. Upholds policy and procedures as they relate to the children’ services, personnel and team development. Ensure the accountability of all early years programs and services. Provide families / caregivers the resources and referrals to early child development. The centres are open six days per week. Work schedule will be flexible including evenings, week-ends & satellite locations.
Job Duties :
Demonstrates, promotes and articulates the value of children’s play as learningUnderstands and demonstrates age appropriate and developmental child guidanceAwareness of the learning process and the ability to follow a child’s lead to expand learning opportunitiesPlans and facilitates a variety of developmentally appropriate programs for families and responds to diverse cultural needsPrepares developmentally appropriate programs for infants / toddlers / pre-school children and their familiesProvides families / caregivers with evidenced based information to questions based on all aspects of a child’s developmentSupports families / caregivers by providing agency referrals and contact information in the communitySupports families in understanding the importance of interacting with their children during the programPlans for and facilitates family centered and professional development workshops and evaluates the effectiveness of the programsMaintains good relationship with other community agencies and early learning programsEducation and Experience Required
Must have an degree / diplomaRegistered with CECE CollegeKnowledge of parent education, child development & community resourcesExperience in facilitating parent education workshopsExcellent organizational & computer, communication, customer service and interpersonal skillsCommitment to Social InclusionAbility to work independently and in a team environmentAbility to speak second language an assetFlexible working hoursMust be computer literate and competent.Car required together with current license and vehicle liability insuranceMedical required – including TB (two stages) 6 months current to hiring datePolice Vulnerable Sector Check 6 months current to hiring dateValid Standard First Aid and CPR, level CYou will be required to work evenings and weekends