| City of Spruce Grove |
Posted Date:
February 21, 2024
Closing Date:
March 8, 2024
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| Contact | City of Spruce Grove |
The City of Spruce Grove is a fast growing, dynamic city committed to building and maintaining a fiscally responsible community that serves our residents, attracts visitors and promotes future growth. Through the actions of the Values We Live By, accountability, communication, leadership, integrity and respect are encouraged, while maintaining a work, play balance.
Position Overview:
The City of Spruce Grove is hiring Program Coordinators. This position plans, coordinates, and implements City offered quality programs and events within a number of Program Portfolios (e.g. Camps, Youth, Arts & Culture, Drama, Sport) for various community recreation, culture needs and interests, by preparing lesson plans, schedules, securing contractors and supplies within provided budgets.
Through the planning, training and supervision of program leaders, and, where necessary, direct leadership of programs, the incumbent facilitates and provides positive experiences for a variety of ages and abilities, while demonstrating high standards of supervision, professional interaction, and prioritizes safety and integration of creativity.
Grounded in the application of corporate and professional policies and frameworks, this position integrates key principles and standards in their program delivery such as, but not limited to, High 5, Developmental Assets Framework, Fundamental Movement Skills, Creative Youth Development, and Playwork Principles.
This position reports to the Recreation/Culture Program & Event Specialist position and provides day-to-day supervision to program leaders, assistants and volunteers.
The successful candidate will be required to be available for all program dates from May 6, 2024 to August 30, 2024.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities for this position include:
• Program Administration and Management
• Provide Leadership to Program Leaders
Qualifications:
• Enrollment in a post-secondary institution in a related field with completion of the first year.
• Minimum of one (1) year experience supervising staff.
• Minimum of one (1) year directly related experience in leading recreation, sport, arts, culture, youth and/or related educational programs.
• Minimum of two (2) years experience in a child/youth related role.
Basic knowledge of the benefits and principles of arts, culture, recreation, physical literacy, and/or fundamental movement skills.
• Knowledge of healthy child and/or youth development.
• Knowledge in the principles of inclusion and diversity, including but not limited to, LGTBQ+, First Nations, special needs.
• Knowledge of program development and delivery.
• Knowledge of a diverse and wide range of activities in program delivery areas (i.e. arts, crafts, drama, sport(s), skateboarding, music, active and passive games, etc.).
• Ability to problem solving and take action when required.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to instruct, organize and supervise group activities for youth/teens and younger children in a respectful and fun manner.
• Ability to effectively communicate.
COMPETENCIES:
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following competencies:
• Thinking & Acting Strategically – sees beyond current situation, understands impact, creates alignment, links priorities to strategy, advises.
• Building Influential Working Relationships – able to effectively build relationships with a wide range of partners internally and externally to the organization.
• Optimizing Performance & Results – knows and understands how to set and achieve results, they build accountability with their teams, and maximize their team’s performance. They strive to improvement performance through innovation, while continually assessing risk and inspiring others.
• Growing Talent & Workforce Capacity – fosters and inclusive workplace, and builds a learning culture that pursues continuous growth, and builds capacity within teams.
• Fostering Innovation & Steering Change – able to identify issues, stimulates creativity, remains on the leading edge, and is agile in change management.
• Politically Astute – knows and understands legislative and regulatory processes and has an intuitive ability to read the political implications of recommendations and actions; prepared to guide and mentor City leadership with solid and informed recommendations.
OUR COMMITTMENT:
At the City of Spruce Grove, our services center around people. We are not all the same and that is our strength. Our organization is fostering a culture of inclusion. Through curiosity and a commitment to listening, reflecting, and learning, we are striving to enhance our practices. Honouring our differences means we can better serve and build a welcoming, supportive, and safe community. If any employee wishes to discuss our commitment, or how we may accommodate or improve on our commitment they are to bring it to the attention of their supervisor or human resources.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Only those candidates selected for further consideration will be considered.
Please review the full position description attached and apply online.
If you require assistance applying to this job, please contact our support staff and refer to job number: J0224-0313.
For more information, please visit https://www.sprucegrove.org/
The Alberta Recreation & Parks Association would like to acknowledge the First Nations, the Métis, the Inuit and all of the people across Alberta who share a history and a deep connection with this land. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in the spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.