Outdoor Educator - CELC Millbrook
Outdoor Educator - CELC Millbrook
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Job Description
Locations: CELC Millbrook Outdoors Millbrook Ontario
Hours: 35hours per week Monday to Friday
Anticipated Start Date: June 27 2025
Anticipated Contract end date: August 29 2025
Please Apply By May 1 2025
Come Work With Compass ELC: Us:
Compass Early Learning and Care (CELC) has been in operation since 1981 and is one of the largest notforprofit child care organizations serving EastCentral Ontario. With over 700 Staff and 50 Home Child Care providers we offer 42 highquality licensed childcare centers and over 50 licensed homes serving over 4000 families
For over forty years Compass ELC has been dedicated to early learning and child care. We believe in creating nurturing environments that celebrate childrens curiosity and whole selves. Our organization fosters a culture of growth collaboration and inclusivity where every team member has the opportunity to thrive. We are committed to supporting children and families in our community.
About the role:
At Compass ELC Outdoor Programs you will work as an Educator in a naturebased program designed to challenge the senses and inspire creativity imagination and childled play. You will work 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 coworkers. You will model and grow a perspective of equity and strive for a deeper understanding of cultural awareness. This role is a part of a pilot project with the Millbrook program spending time visiting natural spaces around CELC Millbrook outdoors for the will be based on program needs and funding. You will work 35 hours per week Monday to Friday. Program hours typically run from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm but may be subject to change depending on program need and funding.
Some accountabilities associated with the role include:
- Being committed to outdoor learning.
- Being reliable flexible and enjoys working outside in all weather.
- Planning and implementing playbased experiences surrounding childrens interests.
- Empowering ageappropriate risktaking and deep play based on processoriented learning.
- Observing and documenting childrens learning.
- Building relationships with families and including them in the learning process.
- Working as part of a team with fellow Coworkers Families Community Partners and Children.
- Ensuring the safety of staff and children by learning and acknowledging all childrens diverse needs and backgrounds and creating equitable opportunities for all children to engage.
- Demonstrating respect for spaces by maintaining a safe environment by providing Risk assessments and implementing safety plans on the areas used in the forest.
- Giving the children time and space to play in sensoryrich experiential learning environments.
- Using the environment as inspiration for creative play opportunities.
- Living into the calls of action 10 & 63 sharing the truth of Canadas history & offering an Indigenous lens
Skills and Qualifications:
- Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act and licensing standards in a childcare program.
- Enjoys being in an outdoor environment in all weather.
- Is familiar with outdoor programming and forest school methodology Compass pedagogical orientations and vision framework
- 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 refusalofaffidavit or medical exemption).
- Registered with the College of Early Childhood Educators or has a postsecondary degree in a similar field (i.e. Forest School Practitioner Child and Youth Care Recreation and Leisure Bachelor of Education etc)
- High Five training is an asset
- Access to reliable transportation
How to Apply:
Please send your resume and cover letter to our HR team via our Bamboo Careers Page: and Accessibility:
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 Mtis 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.
We are committed to reducing barriers to employment providing accommodations upon request and ensuring an accessible interview process. We encourage you to bring your true or whole self and way of being to the interview process. For assistance please contact our Human Relations Recruitment and Hiring Coordinator atext.217
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Contract
