About the Role
The Childcare Provider ensures a safe, attentive, and nurturing environment for children and families during church events. This role involves actively engaging children in age-appropriate activities, maintaining a clean and secure space, and adhering to all church safety and child protection policies.
Responsibilities
- Supervise children during church childcare events, ensuring their safety and adherence to all established safety and security policies
- Engage consistently with children throughout the event through age-appropriate play, activities, and interaction
- Maintain the childcare room by picking up, cleaning, and restoring the space to its original condition at the conclusion of each event
Requirements
- Knowledge of early childcare safely practices
- Basic understanding of child development and age-appropriate behavior
- Ability to engage children through play, activities, and positive interaction
- Strong observation skills to monitor children and identify potential safety concerns
- Effective communication skills with children, parents/guardians, and staff
- Ability to supervise multiple children at one time while maintaining a safe environment
- Ability to respond effectively in the case of unexpected situations or emergencies
- Ability to lift, carry, or assist children and children’s materials, up to 30 lbs.
- Ability to actively supervise children for the duration of childcare events, including walking, standing, carrying and moving throughout the room
- Sufficient vision, hearing, and communication ability to monitor children and ensure safety
- Ability to sit on the floor, bend, kneel, and reach to interact with children and assist with activities
- Staff must align with Grace Fellowship's nine statements of faith
Skills
- Early childcare safety practices
- Child development and age-appropriate behavior
- Child engagement through play and activities
- Positive interaction
- Observation skills
- Effective communication
- Supervising multiple children
- Emergency response
- Lifting up to 30 lbs.
- Active supervision
- Vision
- Hearing
- Communication
Location
- Halfmoon
- Latham
Work Type
- Evening work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Occasional Thursday mornings
- Occasional weekend work
Education Level
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or equivalent combination of education and experience
About the Company
- Grace Fellowship is a Christ-centered, non-denominational, Christian church in the Capital District.
- The church believes in the authority of the Bible and focuses teaching on integrating God's Word into daily lives.
- Grace Fellowship’s mission is “to glorify God by making more and better disciples.”
- Grace Fellowship has 3 locations: Latham, Halfmoon, and Saratoga.
Equal Opportunity
- Grace Fellowship is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fair and inclusive hiring practices in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.
