Job Title: STEAM Educator Assistant
Reports to: Makerspace Lead
Wage: $16.55/hr
Part-time: 4 - 9 hours/ week
Term: (Temporary) Oct 2024 - June 2025
Location: Lindsay Makerspace, Lindsay, ON
After more than a decade of co-designing and delivering science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) education, Pinnguaq’s name is changing to reflect the organization’s evolution; Pinnguaq is now Ampere. Please take this into consideration while maneuvering our websites to better understand our story!
Do you like making, creating, thinking, playing, learning, sharing, unlearning, and hacking? Join Ampere this school year and help deliver amazing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) experiences to young and enthusiastic learners.
As STEAM Educator Assistant, you will support our STEAM Educators in delivering high quality learning experiences. You will also hone your social media skills, posting photos accompanied by short text blocks, to our internal shareables. As a member of our delivery team, you’ll be a public face of the programming we deliver and an ambassador of the work we do.
What you’ll do:
- Support the planning and delivery of our in-person After-School and Saturday Drop-in STEAM programming at our Lindsay Makerspace location, in Lindsay, ON.
- Ensure learners are supervised and safe at all times.
- Ensure all equipment/supplies are in safe working order before and after each program.
- Capture and store delivery events through photos and videos saved to the appropriate Google Drive folder.
- Support in creating and sharing stories and posts to Ampere’s social media accounts and websites (eg. Instagram, blog posts etc.).
- Foster an environment wherein participants have the best learning experience and are challenged in a positive, growth-minded manner.
- Represent the Ampere Association in a respectful and sensitive manner.
- Other duties as assigned.
Attributes and Qualifications:
Equal consideration will be given to non-academic skills and experiences of candidates.
- Minimum age of 14 upon hire.
- Experience working with children is an asset.
- Comfortable learning new technology and digital tools.
- Good decision making and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work in-person in our Lindsay Makerspace, Lindsay ON location.
- Work as a collaborative and flexible team player.
- Basic First Aid certification is an asset.
- For those 18yrs or older, a Vulnerable Sector Search (VSS) will be a condition of the employment offer.
Ampere prioritizes the safety of our employees and the community members we work with, because of this we may require both new hires and current team members to undergo a Vulnerable Sector Screening (VSS). The approval for acceptance of a VSS lies with our People and Culture Team and Management. To ensure up-to-date documentation, please ensure it has not been over six months since the date of completion of the VSS you are submitting. The expense for the VSS falls on the individual, not the company, if there are any concerns regarding this please speak to the People and Culture Team. Additionally, please confirm you're completing the VSS in the correct region.
Ampere strongly believes in fostering diversity within the communities we serve. We welcome those who would contribute to the further diversification of our staff including, but not limited to, Indigenous people, women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.
Ampere is committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. Please inform us should accommodation be required at any point in the recruitment process.