Driver/Lead Before & After School (Utsalady Elementary)

Location:  Utsaladay Elementary, 608 Arrowhead Rd, Camano, WA 98282

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

Drive Safely. Lead with Purpose. Make a Difference.

As a Before & After School Driver/Lead, you will help children safely get where they need to go- and create a positive place for them to learn, play, and belong once they arrive.

This role combines safe transportation with hands-on youth leadership. You will serve as a professional role model, lead engaging activities, support daily site operations, and help children build confidence, friendships, teamwork, and social-emotional skills.

At the Y, your work matters. You will be part of a supportive team, build valuable leadership skills, and make a meaningful difference for children and families in your community.

Here's a version that matches the style of your other BAS postings- short, engaging, and focused on impact.

You're a Great Fit If You...

• Enjoy working with children and helping them grow.
• Are committed to safety and child supervision.
• Are dependable, flexible, and positive.
• Enjoy leading activities and keeping children engaged.
• Like working as part of a team.
• Want a job that makes a difference.

What you will do at the Y:

As a Driver/Lead, you will safely transport children between schools, YMCA program sites, and field trip locations. You will also work directly with children in our before and after-school programs, helping lead the daily program and stepping into additional site responsibilities as needed.

You will help create a safe, welcoming, and engaging environment where every child feels supported and included.

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

• Safely drive YMCA vehicles and transport children to/from schools, program sites, and field trip locations.
• Supervise all children and activities within program area.
• Implement and lead games, activities, and enrichment opportunities.
• Create a safe, fun, and inclusive environment.
• Help children build confidence, friendships, teamwork, and social-emotional skills.
• Work as part of a supportive team to provide a high-quality program.
• 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

· Follow YMCA safety standards and transportation procedures.

• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

· Minimum age 21

• Minimum of two years of driving experience with a clean driving record.
• 1-2 years’ experience working with children, preferred
• Meet educational and experience qualifications established by Dept of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)
• • Have a high school diploma or equivalent;
  • 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

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.