Job Type: Permanent
Location: CELC Monsignor Leo Cleary, Courtice ON
Hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, split shift.
Anticipated Start Date: September 2025
Please Apply ASAP
About Us:
Compass Early Learning and Care (CELC) has been in operation since 1981 and is one of the largest not-for-profit childcare organizations serving East-Central Ontario. With over 600 Staff and 50 Home Child Care providers, we offer 42 high-quality licensed childcare centers and over 50 licensed homes serving over 4,000 families. For over forty years, Compass ELC has been dedicated to early learning and child care. We believe in creating nurturing environments that celebrate children's 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.
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About the role:
As a Compass ELC Site Lead, you will work as a Registered Early Childhood Educator alongside some of the industry's most passionate, caring, and dedicated educators. You will spend your time engaging, connecting, and learning alongside children, families, and co-educators, as well as ensuring licensing standards are met and Compass ELC values are evident in all aspects of the program. You will model and grow an equity perspective and strive for a deeper understanding of cultural awareness.
You will work 35 hours per week. 25 of these hours will be in the program from 7 am to 9 am and 3 pm to 6 pm, Monday to Friday. The additional 10 hours per week you will be expected to work in our administration office in Courtice for administrative tasks, documentation, and pedagogy.
This role will have full-time hours during PA days, March break, Summer camp, and Winter break.
Some accountabilities associated with the role include:
- Working as part of a team with fellow Early Childhood Educators, Families, School Communities, and Children.
- Ensuring the safety of staff and children.
- Being willing and confident to engage in difficult conversations with educators, families, children, and community partners.
- Having daily administrative and pedagogical time.
- Acting as a link for other program staff, connecting them to our HR, Finance, Pedagogy, and Operations teams.
- Provide nutritious snacks based on a menu created in line with the latest nutritional guidelines.
- Responsible for billing, accounts receivables, enrollments, and managing child care waitlist.
- Ensuring that the program is meeting the requirements set out by licensing as per the Child Care Early Years Act, and in line with How Does Learning Happen, Ontario’s Pedagogy for the Early Years.
- Welcoming and training new staff into your program, including supply staff
- Planning and implementing play-based experiences following observations made children’s interests.
Benefits:
- Benefits – health, 80% dental, paramedical $1000.00 bundled, 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)
- Defined Pension Plan - 3% employee contributions, 3% employer contributions
- 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
- Paid Time Off - starting at 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
Skills and Qualifications:
- Is familiar with the Child Care Early Years Act, and licensing standards in a childcare program.
- A minimum of 2 to 3 years of experience working as an Early Childhood Educator or Equivalent
- 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 recognized field (i.e. Child and Youth Care, Recreation and Leisure, Bachelor of Education, Social Service Work).
How to Apply:
To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter through our Bamboo Careers Page.
Inclusivity 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, 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.
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 at 705-749-3488 ext. 245, [email protected].
