PURPOSEAs one of Ottawa’s largest child and youth-serving charitable organizations, BGC Ottawa provides FREE, subsidized, and cost saving Community-based services, and life-changing programs to an annual average of 5,000 young Members each year. We provide safe, supportive places where all kids and teens, of all backgrounds, can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, and develop confidence and skills for life. From anti-Racism to Reconciliation to LGBTQ2S+, food security to scholarships to job readiness, our programs battle systemic issues with systemic solutions—equity, acceptance, support, opportunity.As a growing team that embraces different ways of thinking, abilities, and experiences we aim to make our staff feel safe. We want you to feel heard, respected, and empowered. We believe in our diverse shared power as being the key to serving our members, volunteers, community, and each other with the utmost care.BGC Ottawa is about building positive and inclusive environments for all.RESPONSIBILITIESMajor Responsibility 1: General Tasks and Responsibilities
Dispose of garbage, waste materials, and recycling.
Pick up debris and empty trash containers
Report anything in need of repair or replacement to the appropriate person
Keep your cleaning area and space clean and tidy at all times and your cleaning materials safely stored
Be familiar with the required care standards regulations governing your job
Maintain polite and good communication with you colleagues and residents at all time
Promote workplace safety and ensure workplace safety is practiced
Inform to manager of issues that need maintenance and repair of building interiors and exteriors.
Take corrective actions when required
Keep a current inventory of all supplies and equipment related to maintenance, contact manager to order supplies as needed.
Recommend improvements to camp facility.
Major Responsibility 2: Bathrooms
Clean showers
Clean and disinfect bathrooms and fixtures
Cleaning toilets, hand-basins, mirrors, paying particular attention to fittings, emptying rubbish bins, sweeping and washing floors, refilling soap and toilet paper dispensers as necessary and mopping down showers.
Major Responsibility 3: Dining Hall
Sweep and Mop Dining hall floor daily
Clean Washrooms including toilets and showers
Emptying wastepaper bins and replacing bins as necessary
Cleaning glass doors
Wiping down the surfaces of all tables and bench-tops
Major Responsibility 4: Log Home
Maintenance of clean, well-kept spaces and guest accommodations
Tasks can include, but are not limited to, dusting, sweeping, mopping, tidying, and cleaning kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms.
Perform other duties as requiredQUALIFICATIONS:Required Education/Experience:
Proven previous experience
High school diploma or general education degree (GED). Related degree from a technical college.
Standard First Aid/CPR certification
Police Record Check (vulnerable sector)
Required knowledge, skills and abilities:
Experience working in a community and child/youth-friendly environment considered an asset
Experience in managing cleaning services and or environmental services teams or contracts within institutional type environments
Knowledge of housekeeping operations
Knowledge of smart building practices
Knowledge of and sensitivity to child and youth developmental factors and community issues and how they are impacted by physical environments
Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills
Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision
Start Date: ASAP to December 31, 2025WORKING CONDITIONS:These are the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions.Example: The majority of the work is performed in an environment that is mostly, clean and comfortable. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision on a computer screen for a large part of the working day. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
