Summer Activity Worker

Summer Activity Worker:
Department: Student Boarding
Reports To: Head Boarding Advisor
Status: Part-Time, Term
Hours: 0-19 hours/week

This is an approximate 3-month term positions from June 2025-August 2025.

Are you energetic, enthusiastic, and enjoy working with youth? Join our team as an Activity Worker and assist in creating a safe, inclusive, and engaging environment for students outside of the studio. From evening activities to weekend adventures, you’ll be at the core of student life—supporting and guiding while enriching the overall student experience.

About Us:
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet enriches the human experience by teaching, creating, and performing outstanding dance. Located in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, the RWB plays an integral role in the city’s vibrant arts community. Founded in 1939, the RWB holds the double distinction of being Canada’s premiere ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America. In 1953, the Company received its royal title, the first granted under the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

The RWB is a leader, renowned for classical ballet and for pushing the boundaries of dance, including through the prestigious RWB School and its Professional and Recreational divisions. A fully integrated company and school, the RWB builds on strengths, challenges conventions, inspires artists, moves audiences, and builds connections locally and globally that unite us all through the universal language of dance.

The Role:
As a Summer Activity Worker, you will actively supervise boarding students aged 11-18, and non-boarding school students, during activities and events. You will work alongside other Activity Workers and Boarding Advisors to support all aspects of student life during evenings and weekends.

Key Duties:
• Provide supervision to students during evenings and weekends.
• Act as a role model for students.
• Support meaningful inclusion and active participation of all individuals within the community.
• Provide logistical and other support during activities and events.
• Walk or accompany students on van/bus to and from appointments, activities, and events.
• Forward concerns raised by students and their parents/guardians as appropriate.
• General administration such as attendance and note taking.
• Cleaning and other facility-related duties such as moving furniture, particularly during scheduled cleaning days.
• Perform clerical, customer service, and production support for Recreational Division recitals and registration.

Work Setting:
You will work in a Student Boarding setting and at activity locations throughout the city supervising students. In this position, you will utilize general recreational equipment, industrial cleaning supplies, and will be required to lift/move heavy items weighing up to 22 KG (50lbs).

What You Bring:
• Eighteen (18) years of age.
• Background in camp counselling, coaching, or a related field preferred.
• Experience working with children or young adults preferred.
• Current CPR and First Aid Certification desirable.
• Ability to speak and write in other languages an asset.
• Positive disposition and enthusiasm.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to take initiative within the scope of responsibility.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively as part of a team.

How To Apply:
Ready to join us? Tell us about yourself! Submit your cover letter and resume directly to People Services at peopleservices@rwb.org. While we’d like to connect with each applicant, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. To view a full job description, visit www.rwb.org/about/careers/.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is committed to an inclusive and diverse environment that values, respects and supports all individuals. We aim to have a workforce representative of the diversity within our community, and welcome and encourage applicants from various backgrounds including women, Indigenous people, racialized people, disabled people, people of all sexual and gender identities and others who may contribute to further diversification endeavors.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet is committed to providing accessible employment while ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the assessment and selection process. Requests for accommodation can be sent to peopleservices@rwb.org.

Closing Date: Open until filled.

As part of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet hiring process, successful candidates will be required to submit a satisfactory Criminal Background Check and Child Abuse Registry Check.