Science Communicator – Overnight Camp-ins

Science Communicator – Overnight Camp-ins

$20.50 per hour

Do you fancy yourself a night-owl? This is the perfect opportunity for you! Did you know that Science North hosts overnight school groups in what are called camp-ins? Students arrive in the late afternoon and stay right until morning – what an adventure. They are treated to a full agenda of activities across the centre and with no visitors for the majority of that time they have the place to themselves to explore.  First thing in the morning before our visitors arrive they jump back on their bus and head home. See full description of available opportunities below.

May & June 2025:  Variable hours: 18 to 27 hours per week. $20.50/hr, working two to three camp-ins per week

Shifts run 12am (midnight) to 9 am and you must be available for the entire time period

Key Responsibilities

Assist the evening supervision of the camp-ins and stay up overnight to supervise the participants sleeping in the Cavern. An off-site supervisor will be available by phone for emergencies.

Duties include:

• supervision of  students exploring the science centre
• ensuring participants are ready to sleep for the night
• remaining awake and able to assist participants throughout the night in the Cavern (teachers will also be present through the night)
• ensuring participants are awake in the morning and serve them breakfast
• delivering hands-on programming
• getting students ready to meet their bus(es)
• ensuring that the science centre is clean and ready for the school groups and visitors in the morning

Qualifications

• Available from midnight until 9am (overnight)
• Comfortable working independently
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Must have first aid certification

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Science North, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Apply online. An early application represents your best opportunity for consideration. Science North is committed to an inclusive workplace and invites applications from all qualified individuals to join our diverse team. Accommodations are available upon request in all aspects of Science North’s selection process. We thank all interested candidates; only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Science North is grateful to work with First Nations across Northern Ontario and we give thanks to the Indigenous Peoples who have cared for this land since time immemorial. We pay respect to their traditions, ways of knowing, and acknowledge their many contributions to innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, past and present. We also recognize the Métis Nation of Ontario for their historic and ongoing contributions. Science North commits to deepening engagement, relationships and partnerships in order to advance truth and reconciliation, honour and reflect Indigenous ways of knowing, grow economic opportunities, and collaborate with Indigenous peoples as partners in order to inspire all people to be engaged with science in the world around them.

Science North is a registered charity and is an agency of the Government of Ontario.