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About the Role:

The Child and Youth Supervisor provides direct leadership and support to staff and volunteers, ensuring high-quality program experiences, and maintains a strong focus on member/participant satisfaction. In addition to branch-level responsibilities, the Supervisor actively contributes to association-wide initiatives by participating in task group meetings and supporting collaborative planning and program development. The role is accountable for the successful delivery of child and youth programs, ensuring they are safe, inclusive and developmentally appropriate.

Responsibilities:

Leadership

• Recruit, hire, train, coach, supervise and support all full-time and part-time staff and volunteers within the Child and Youth and Day Camp program areas. 
• Lead onboarding processes and ongoing training for staff and volunteers, including planning and facilitating quarterly in-services and contributing to annual day camp training for coordinators and counsellors.
• Develop and manage staff and volunteers' schedules ensuring sufficient coverage, proactive coverage planning and compliance with YMCA ratios.

Program Development & Delivery

• Develop sessional program schedules that offer programs for all ages of child and youth members, include a variety of program times and options that align with association-wide priorities and branch-specific targets.
• Oversee daily program operations: monitor program registration, track attendance and manage waitlists and cancellations.
• Actively supervise program delivery to ensure alignment with YMCA Service that Shines standards and principles of Healthy Child Development (HCD) and Positive Youth Development (PYD).
• Manage within an approved budget for programs, deal with suppliers for equipment and products, submit expenses to accounting within the month of accruing the expense.

Health, Safety and Child Protection

• Maintains a safe and supportive environment by following all YMCA Health, Safety and Child Protection and Emergency policies and procedures.

Qualifications:

• Post-Secondary Education in Recreation, Early Child Development, Education or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 1-year experience in leadership role within recreation, youth services or camp programming.
• Experience working with children and youth, preferably in a leadership role.
• Strong written and verbal communication, focused on positive team development and staff performance management.
• NCCP FMS (Fundamental Movement Skills), and HIGH Five Certification are considered assets.
• Intermediate (Standard) First Aid & CPR-C.
• Able to obtain a Police Information Check and Vulnerable sector check.  
• Flexible work schedule – including days, evenings, weekends and stat holidays. 

Why work for the YMCA?

The YMCA of Northern Alberta is a charity that ignites the potential in people, helping them grow, lead, and give back to their communities. We are committed to helping our employees and volunteers reach their full potential and are recognized as a great place to work and volunteer. We offer meaningful opportunities to make a difference in the lives of individuals and the health of our communities.

Joining the Y means contributing to over 100 years of providing opportunities for people to shine! Our Y serves tens of thousands of people each year through programs and services like health and fitness, licensed child care, day camps, mental health, employment and immigrant services, education and training, and services for youth, families and seniors.

Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Inclusion has power, and we take strides to create a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can belong. Diverse teams unleash new ideas, and employees thrive in a culture that recognizes and appreciates the unique perspectives and backgrounds of others. Through our differences in how we think and act we can form innovative and effective teams and deliver organizational success.

If we can make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about an opportunity so we can work with you to accommodate your needs.

In keeping with our commitment to safety and child protection, job offers are contingent on the successful completion of a Police Records Check. Prior to your first day and every three years thereafter, a Vulnerable Police Records Check is required.

The YMCA only considers applicants who are legally entitled to work in Canada. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the volume of applications we receive, we can only contact candidates who are selected for an interview.