Are you passionate about educating kids? Are you a planning wiz who loves details? Does a flexible part-time position that allows you to work both from home and on-location sound appealing?

Engineering For Kids is hiring a Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor to organize, manage and lead our birthday party program. Additionally, the position will support the Program Manager in the day-to-day business operations with a focus on our weekend classes and summer camps.

The Birthday Party Coordinator/ Instructor is part administrative work and part teaching; we believe that working in the field will provide you a deeper understanding of our organization, our curriculum and our clients. Experience in both areas is essential.

Responsibilities: This is a new role in our organization. While we have a general overview of responsibilities, it’s possible that responsibilities will change as needs are identified and as the role is developed (with your help!).

Birthday Coordination

Book and coordinate parties, including but not limited to responding to requests, scheduling staff, preparing supplies, communicating client needs to staff, arranging for invoicing

Client service & follow up

Act as the primary contact for staff and clients, including on weekends

Promote birthdays through various marketing platforms

Grow our birthday program with new ideas and activities

Weekend Classes

Support our weekend classes and staff, including booking substitute instructors, communicating with facility staff

Day-to-Operations

Provide customer service, including responding to emails, phone calls, and direct inquiries from clients, community partners, staff

Work with the Program Manager to create marketing campaigns and seasonal programming guides

Participate in staff training

Help create and/ or maintain procedures and documentation

Help update and/ or create programming curriculum

Manage supplies and inventory

Assist with managing the online staff schedule

Maintain regular communication with staff

Instruction

Work with a co-instructor to lead birthdays

Co-lead classes, workshops, camps, as needed, using EFK curriculum and lesson plans

Prepare and transport supplies to and from birthday/ class/ camp locations

Qualifications:

Experience planning, facilitating, and executing projects within a time frame

Strong customer service skills

Experience teaching children, ideally through hands-on learning activities

Experience with classroom management

Demonstrated leadership skills

Ability to communicate in a clear, concise, kind, and confident manner with both children and adults (oral and written)

Able to work both independently and in a team environment

Ability to quickly assess and problem solve a situation with confidence

Has a real interest in S.T.E.M fields (engineering, robotics, coding, Minecraft)

Requirements:

Access to a vehicle (you may be required to transport supplies to/from locations)

Has/ willing to obtain emergency first aid and CPR-Level C

Has a recent (within 4 months) vulnerable sector Police Information Check or is willing to obtain

Available on weekends and in summer

What we provide:

An awesome team of people to work with!

Ongoing training and support

Remote work opportunity (administrative work only)

A flexible, part-time schedule (up to 20 hours per week) with the potential for more hours in Summer

$20/ hour + 4% in lieu of vacation pay

Who we are:

Engineering For Kids Vancouver Island brings S.T.E.M. education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) to children ages 4+ through fun and engaging hands-on learning experiences that encourages creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and critical thinking. We teach after-school classes, workshops, parties and camps at recreation centres throughout Greater Victoria.

Members of visible minority groups and women in S.T.E.M are encouraged to apply