Job purpose:
Romero House welcomes refugee claimants by providing housing, immigration, and settlement support. The Community Animator will support programming for children and their families, as well as community-wide events.
Duties and responsibilities:
– Assess community needs and coordinate appropriate activity for the summer (community garden club, women’s group, adult social group, etc.)
– Support our weekly kids club with planning, facilitation, or assisting the instructor.
– Gather information on children in the Romero community and suitability for summer
programming including camps, classes, day trips; assess child’s relevant strengths and
needs.
– Support the development of the Romero Eco-Summer programming (activity planning, excursion scheduling, connecting with local environmental organizations to collaborate, etc).
– Assist families developing options for summer activities and develop plans of action while
providing necessary support and assistance, including registering for summer camps (day
camps and overnight).
– Liaise with partner organizations that provide spots for summer camps for children in the
Romero community.
– Receiving offers of activities (such as sporting event, art class, movie or play) and
communicating those to relevant families who might be interested; coordinating the
logistics of connecting families to those experiences.
– Keeping program statistics on events and participation and presenting reports.
– Gathering feedback on events and facilitating a debrief process with relevant
stakeholders.
– Assessing need for bikes amongst clients.
– Assist with receiving offers of donated bikes and matching them with a family in need,
assisting with education and material for safe riding (helmet, lock, bell, etc).
– Assisting with community events, as needed, such as our street party, Canada Day, inter-
house soccer tournament, and team appreciation celebration.
– Record attendance and participation in activities and prepare report for the Community
Programming Coordinator.
To apply, please fill out the community animator application form (Opens in new window).