Before & After School Lead (Cedarhome Elementary)

Location:  Cedarhome Elementary, 27911 68th Ave NW, Stanwood, WA 98292

Availability: Monday-Friday; Must be available for shifts between 6:15 - 9:30 a.m. and 3:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Be a Role Model. Make a Difference. Have Fun.

Every day at the YMCA is an opportunity to help children feel safe, supported, and inspired. As a Before & After School Lead, you'll create a fun and welcoming environment where kids build friendships, gain confidence, and discover new interests.

At the Y, you'll do meaningful work, grow your leadership skills, and be part of a team that believes every child deserves a place to belong.

You are a Great Fit If You...

• Love working with children.
• Enjoy leading activities and keeping kids engaged.
• Are dependable, flexible, and positive.
• Like working as part of a team.
• Want a job that makes a difference.

What you will do at the Y:

As a Before & After School Lead, you'll help lead a licensed before and after-school program, working directly with children while supporting the daily operations of the site. You will partner with the Site Coordinator to create a safe, engaging, and inclusive program for children and families.

Work Schedule

This is an in-person, part-time position working directly with children.

Work hours are a combination of:

• Morning shifts before school
• Afternoon shifts after school
• Full-day shifts (up to 8 hours) on non-school days and during school breaks

Schedules vary based on school start and end times and program needs. Additional hours may be available during the summer through employment at a YMCA Day Camp.

Why Work at the Y?

• Make a positive impact every day.
• Build leadership and youth development skills.
• Receive paid training and professional development.
• Join a fun, supportive team.
• Grow your career with the YMCA.

Job duties/Responsibilities

· Work as part of a supportive team to provide a high-quality program.

· Implement and lead games, activities, and enrichment opportunities.

· Supervise all children and activities within program area

· Be a positive role model for children every day.

· Help ensure children's safety and well-being.

· Support family communication and child check-in/check-out.

· Assist with daily program setup, organization, and site operations.

· Maintain materials, equipment, and program facility

· Comply with state and local regulations as well as YMCA standards and procedures

· Adhere to program standards including safety and cleanliness standards

· Attend and participate in family events, program activities, and staff meetings as directed

· Follow YMCA policies and procedures, including those related to medical and disciplinary situations, child abuse prevention and emergencies

· Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

· Minimum age 18

· 1-2 years’ experience working with children, preferred

· Meet educational and experience qualifications established by Dept of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)

o Have a high school diploma or equivalent;

o Have completed twelve college credits in any one hundred-level or above college coursework within five years of employment

· Provide documentation of all certification and training requirements established by the DCYF, including position prerequisites, current negative TB test, fully vaccinated for MMR/other required vaccinations*, and portable background check

· Plan, organize, and implement high quality developmentally appropriate programming

· Fluency in second language preferred

*Medical or religious exemptions may be possible

Our Commitment to Inclusion:
The Y is made up of people of all ages and from every walk of life, working side by side to strengthen communities. Together we work to ensure that everyone, regardless of ability, age, cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender identity, ideology, income, national origin, race or sexual orientation, has the opportunity to reach their full potential with dignity. Our core values are caring, honesty, respect and responsibility—they guide everything we do.

We look forward to having you on our YMCA team

Y Culture:

· Build relationships with a diverse membership base in culturally responsive ways, connect members with one another and to the YMCA

· Exhibit Caring, Honesty, Respect and Responsibility

· Complete required training and certifications within established guidelines

· Arrive on time ready for shift, clock in/out within timekeeping system

Embrace Team Leader Core Competencies:

Mission Advancement:

• Models and teaches the Y’s values
• Ensures a high level of service with a commitment to improving lives
• Provides volunteers with orientation, training, development, and recognition
• Cultivates relationships to support fundraising

Collaboration:

· Champions inclusion activities, strategies, and initiatives

· Builds relationships to create small communities

· Empathetically listens and communicates for understanding when negotiating and dealing with conflict

· Effectively tailors communications to the appropriate audience

· Provides staff with feedback, coaching, guidance and support

Operational Effectiveness: 

• Provides others with frameworks for making decisions
• Conducts prototypes to support the launching of programs and activities
• Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team
• Effectively creates and manages budgets
• Holds staff accountable for high-quality results using a formal process to measure progress

Personal Growth:

• Shares new insights
• Facilitates change; models adaptability and an awareness of the impact of change
• Utilizes non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance
• Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills required to perform well; uses best practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in technology

Physical and Mental Demands:  The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by employees to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Physical Demands:

As directed, lead and participate in a range of activities in indoor/outdoor settings. Sufficient strength, agility and mobility to perform essential functions of position and to safely supervise program activities. Staff may be required to move weights of approximately 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Mental Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret data, information and documents; analyze and solve non-routine and complex problems; may use math and mathematical reasoning; observe and interpret situations; learn and apply new information or skills; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks; work under intensive deadlines with frequent interruptions; and interact with members, staff, volunteers, and others encountered in the course of work, some of whom may be dissatisfied individuals.

Working Conditions:  The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Typically interaction with others is busy, constant and occasionally interruptive. Work may be demanding at times. May require ability to work irregular hours. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.