CAREERS
Summer Camp Leader
Salary: $18.50 per hour
Application Deadline: February 21, 2025, at 4:00 pm
Contract length: 11 weeks
Expected start & end date: June 16, 2025 – August 29, 2025
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Submit Application to: Tanner van Vliet, Education & Public Programs Coordinator by email: programs@homerwatson.on.ca
Position Summary
Do you love working with children and have a passion for art? As a Camp Leader, you will be working in the studio helping Homer Watson House & Gallery’s delivering art programming to children 4-11. You will be an integral part of making our art programs a creative and fun environment for all!
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Welcoming and greeting parents and children to camp each day.
- Planning, preparing, and facilitating 2-5 art lessons per week for children between the ages of 4 and 11.
- Studio maintenance. Preparing studio spaces for lessons including gathering supplies, taking stock of inventory, tidying and resetting studios after lessons.
- Child supervision during camp hours. Monitoring and engaging campers during art activities, morning drop off, sign in, sign-out, breaks, lunch time, along with afternoon extended care and pick up. Ensuring the safety for all participants at all times.
- Recording and documenting the progress of camp participants to regularly communicate with parents at pick up time and the weekly student exhibition.
- Collaboratively prepare and install an exhibition of student artwork at the end of each camp week.
Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Previous experience teaching / instructing / facilitating art or arts related subjects to children ages 4-11
- Enjoy working with children
- Have strong communication skills
- Have a passion for visual art
- Work well as a team
- Have a good understanding of HWHG and what we do
- Willing to learn new skills.
- Education/ECE training and working with children is an asset.
- Demonstrated experience and interest in arts programming including supervising groups of children in a camp or program setting.
- Keen and enthusiastic attitude and approach to children, parents and arts programming.
- Excellent organizational and customer service skills.
Requirements
- Actively pursuing a college diploma or university degree in the Arts, Education or Recreation and Leisure or other related field.
- Previous experience working with children
- Standard First Aid
- Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check.
This is a grant funded position. Applicants must meet the following criteria:
- Must be currently enrolled in a secondary, or post-secondary institution or within six months of graduation. Proof of enrollment must be provided.
- Between the ages of 15-25 years old upon commencement of employment or up to 29 years of age for persons with a disability, within the meaning of s.10 of the Ontario Human Rights Code, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.19, as amended from time to time.
- Available to work full time for the duration of the contract length.
- Students must be eligible to work in Canada and have a Social Insurance Number (SIN).
Accommodation needs and protection of privacy
The Homer Watson House & Gallery is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate the needs of qualified applicants under the Human Rights Code in all parts of the recruitment and hiring process.
Please contact the Public Programs & Education Coordinator to make your needs known in advance, with the nature of any accommodations that you may require in respect to any materials or processes used to ensure your full and equal participation throughout the recruitment and hiring process.
Personal information collected in relation to the recruitment process is collected under the authority outlined in the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and used solely to determine eligibility for employment with the Homer Watson House & Gallery only.
A Note on Qualifications
We believe there are many ways you could be qualified for this position – we value what you have learned in the classroom and outside, equally. In your cover letter, let us know your relevant experience and knowledge and why you are suited to this position. Applicants are welcome to submit additional support documents such as any examples of previous lessons or program plans you have developed & facilitated OR a small portfolio.
Successful candidates will be required to provide a satisfactory criminal record check dated within the last 30 days as a condition of employment. Letters of application should address the candidate’s expertise in arts programming for children & youth.
Applications to be submitted as one document to: programs@homerwatson.on.ca by February 21, 2025, at 4:00 pm.
HWHG Art Instructor
A little about us:
The Homer Watson House and Gallery is a not-for-profit gallery located in Kitchener with the mission to celebrate the legacy of Homer Watson, the first notable Canadian landscape painter, through the appreciation, enjoyment, and practice of the arts. We do this by offering public art programs for children, youth, adults, and seniors both in our gallery and around the community.
Are you a local artist looking to share your skills?
Summer 2025 art program submissions now open!
Click here to fill out the form.
Frequently asked questions:
- Compensation? Instructors for in-person classes & workshops are paid an hourly rate of $35/hr for instructional time. Virtual classes are split 50/50 in registration profit.
- How does the schedule work? Please mention your availability & preferred dates in your submission form. Your classes will be scheduled based on the availability and dates you submit.
- What are the age groups? Adult (ages 14+), Childrens (ages 4-13), Family (ages 4+)
- How long are the classes? Class length is determined by instructors but will be approved by the Program Coordinator. Typical class length ranges from 1-2 hrs.
- How many projects are typically accomplished? It’s up to you. Typically, the younger the class, the more projects are made. Course content is determined by instructors. Please note the programs coordinator may request a course breakdown/outline detailing the learning goals for each class.
- Course and material price? HWHG uses a standardized fee/rate to determine registration costs. Participants will purchase necessary materials and bring them to class. Our aim is to make art as accessible as possible.
- Who handles the logistics? Homer Watson handles registration and customer correspondence. The instructor is responsible for sending the gallery reference photos for virtual classes and promotion, material lists. We will also request feedback from the participants afterwards.
- Who handles the supplies? Participants purchase supplies/materials and bring them to class. If an instructor used specialty supplies or materials and would like to provide them for students HWHG will build materials costs into the registration fee.
What we need from you:
- Submit your proposal(s) and keep an eye on your email inbox!
- Instructors will be contacted via email to confirm class dates & times in addition to other necessary details required for advertising your class. Once program details are confirmed instructors will receive their contract.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: We require a background check in accordance with Ontario’s provincial laws. All staff and instructors working with the public require a criminal record check including Vulnerable Sector screening.
Homer Watson House and Gallery is committed to equity in all aspects of its operations. We encourage applications from indigenous people, persons with disabilities, ethnic or racial minorities, immigrants and refugees, Francophones, LGBTQI+ persons, women, and persons of all socio-economic walks of life.
Have any questions? Please contact our Educations and Public Programs Coordinator via programs@homerwatson.on.ca
Tanner Van Vliet
Education and Public Programs Coordinator
