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Work with us at Family Day!

Put your training, experience and passion for quality Child

Care and Early Learning to work at Family Day

Position Available: Program Facilitator, Permanent Full Time - 40 hours/week, 8 hours/day

Location: Mississauga EarlyON

Salary: $52,684.69

Vacancy Type: New

Start Date: October 16, 2026

About Family Day:

Family Day Care Services is a non-profit, charitable organization with a long and distinguished history of providing high-quality early learning and childcare services to children and families throughout Toronto, York and Peel Regions. We are a multi service organization with over 700 employees, providing a broad range of services including: 29 Child Care Centres, 49 Before and After Care programs, 204 Licensed Home Child Cares, 9 EarlyON programs, 2 Homework Plus programs, and Special Needs Resourcing for children and their families living in the Greater Toronto Area.

There are many reasons to work with Family Day:

Family Day Offers:

• Competitive compensation
• Health and dental benefits
• Pension plan
• Generous vacation, sick leave and medical appointments
• Child Care discount
• Discounted GoodLife memberships
• Training & professional development funding
• Potential for career growth
• Employee referral bonus
• A positive and diverse work environment

Job Purpose:

The Program Facilitator plans, facilitates programs for families/caregivers and children from birth through six years of age, programming indoors, 4 season outdoors and virtual Facebook, Zoom, Storypark and doing live and making prerecorded videos of themselves. Upholds policy and procedures as they relate to the children’ services, personnel and team development. Ensure the accountability of all early years programs and services. Provide families/caregivers the resources and referrals to early child development. The centres are open six days per week. Work schedule will be flexible including evenings, week-ends & satellite locations.

Job Duties:

• Demonstrates, promotes and articulates the value of children’s play as learning
• Understands and demonstrates age appropriate and developmental child guidance
• Awareness of the learning process and the ability to follow a child’s lead to expand learning opportunities
• Plans and facilitates a variety of developmentally appropriate programs for families and responds to diverse cultural needs
• Prepares developmentally appropriate programs for infants/toddlers/pre-school children and their families
• Provides families/caregivers with evidenced based information to questions based on all aspects of a child’s development
• Supports families/caregivers by providing agency referrals and contact information in the community
• Supports families in understanding the importance of interacting with their children during the program
• Plans for and facilitates family centered and professional development workshops and evaluates the effectiveness of the programs
• Maintains good relationship with other community agencies and early learning programs

Education and Experience Required

• E.C.E. degree/diploma
• Knowledge of parent education, child development & community resources
• Experience in facilitating parent education workshops
• Excellent organizational & computer, communication, customer service and interpersonal skills
• Commitment to Social Inclusion
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Ability to speak second language an asset
• Flexible working hours

• Must be computer literate and competent.

• Car required together with current license and vehicle liability insurance
• Medical required – including TB (two stages) 6 months current to hiring date
• Police Vulnerable Sector Check 6 months current to hiring date
• Valid Standard First Aid and CPR, level C
• You will be required to work evenings and weekends

Diversity and Inclusion:

Family Day fosters a positive inclusive workplace culture, with a workforce that is representative of the families and communities it serves. Committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion, Family Day encourages candidates from diverse backgrounds and those who may need accommodation, to apply to join our team.

In accordance with Ontario’s hiring transparency requirements, no artificial intelligence (AI) systems are used to screen, assess, or select applicants for this position.

Interested candidates should apply through our website: www.familydaycare.com

This document is available in alternate formats upon request.

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Family Day Care Services is committed to providing a safe environment for children. All applicants will be thoroughly screened using background checks and a review process.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Family Day Care Services will provide a reasonable accommodation to employees and prospective employees to the point of undue hardship upon request and as required in respect of the individual’s particular restrictions and limitations. If you require a specific accommodation because of a disability or a medical need to ensure your equal participation, feel free to contact Human Resources at [email protected].

We are Hiring! If you have the passion, creativity and dedication we are looking for, we would love to hear from you.