Are you looking for a rewarding role where you can make a meaningful impact while using your creativity, leadership, and passion for recreation? Do you enjoy planning and leading activities that promote wellness, teamwork, and positive engagement?
Consider joining the team as a Recreation Officer at Monteith Correctional Centre. In this role, you will plan, organize, and deliver a diverse range of physical, social, cultural, and leisure activities that support the well-being and rehabilitation of adult inmates.
Located in the close-knit community of Monteith, just minutes from Timmins, this role offers the opportunity to enjoy northern Ontario living—short commutes, access to outdoor recreation year-round, and a strong sense of community—while building a rewarding career in public service.
Note: This role requires shift work and the successful completion of a specialized, mandatory training once hired.
- Plan, organize, and guide the activities of various clubs and craft classes or other group activities
- Ensure appropriate security and safety measures are maintained
- Ensure the proper maintenance, repairs, and construction of recreation equipment and facilities
- Remain up to date on skills, techniques, rules, and regulations of games and other recreational activities
- Assist in the planning, implementation, and supervision of recreation programs and content, and special events
- Coordinate and schedule recreational facilities and equipment
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- have knowledge of recreation activities that are acquired through a supervised program of study, such as physical education, kinesiology, or recreation leadership, or equivalent experience in planning and managing recreation programs to meet the physical, social, cultural, and educational needs of adult inmates.
- Can participate in the design and implementation of recreation program content.
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- can effectively lead participants through recreational activities
- can demonstrate and supervise recreational activities
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- can draft various reports such as program evaluations, occurrence reports, etc.
- can provide clear instructions to participants on how to engage/perform a variety of recreational activities.
If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!
We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.
Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's
Human Rights Code and the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.
Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:
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diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
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accessibility
- Anti-Racism Policy
