Youth Development Worker

Join Our Team at Whytecliff Agile Learning Centres

Are you passionate about working with teens and ready for a youth-work role with more depth, creativity, and potential for growth?

Whytecliff Agile Learning Centres () in Burnaby, BC is looking for a dedicated and experienced Youth Development Worker to join our Langley team. This is your chance to be part of a supportive, close‑knit community helping students grow, thrive, and discover their potential in a unique and innovative school setting.

This is active, school‑based youth work with real variety. You’ll be mentoring students, leading wellness activities, building hands‑on projects around student interests, planning field trips, supporting learning, and helping students experience themselves as capable, connected, and genuinely valued — often in the ordinary moments that matter most.

Whytecliff is unique in BC: we are an independent school that is also CARF‑accredited as a therapeutic Positive Youth Development program.

At our Burnaby campus, we work with approximately 30–40 students in grades 8–12, all with IEPs. Many have struggled in traditional school settings and may be navigating anxiety, ADHD, ASD, school avoidance, social or emotional challenges, low confidence, learning differences, or a history of feeling that school has not worked for them.

That is why our mission is different and our work is so important. Our goal is bigger than just helping kids achieve graduation. Our goal is to help students experience school as a place where they can belong, contribute, discover their gifts, strengths and talents, build real skills, and reach their true potential.

We offer a whole‑person approach that blends academics with Positive Youth Development, outdoor education, project‑based learning, mental wellness, social‑emotional growth, and real‑world skill building.

Physical activity, wellness, and hands‑on learning are key parts of our program. We have a full gym across the street that we use regularly for structured activity, team challenges, confidence‑building, regulation, and health‑focused programming.

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We’re seeking an energetic, grounded, and adaptable person who can lead from the front — whether that means running a gym session, organizing a team challenge, helping a student turn an interest into a real project, joining a field trip, or offering calm, steady mentorship to a young person who needs guidance.

You have real hands‑on youth work experience, ideally with adolescents in alternative education, special education, youth programs, coaching, outdoor education, camp leadership, or another setting where you’ve learned how to build trust with young people.

You understand Positive Youth Development not just as a buzzword, but as a way of working with youth: seeing strengths, building belonging, creating challenge, supporting growth, and helping students take the next step.

You’re likely a strong fit if you are:

• A natural mentor and role model – You build real trust with young people and lead with consistency, humour, patience, and genuine interest.
• Active and confident with groups – You can run a gym session, lead a team challenge, manage group energy, and help students work through frustration, teamwork, and success.
• Creative and hands‑on – You can turn student interests into something real: a fitness challenge, a photography project, a podcast, a simple website, a video, a hands‑on build, an outdoor activity, or a presentation students can feel proud of.
• Comfortable with different kinds of kids – You can connect with the active kid, the anxious kid, the quiet kid, the tech kid, the funny kid, the guarded kid, and the kid who has mostly given up on school.
• Curious about what makes youth grow – You think about motivation, identity, confidence, belonging, and what helps a young person take the next step.
• Practical and proactive – You notice what needs doing, step in without waiting to be asked, and follow through on the details that keep the day working.
• A strong teammate – You enjoy working closely with teachers, counsellors,…