Burnaby has a wide variety of staff positions open, and city staff hope to create new training programs for youth and older adults.
In Burnaby, city staff are operating at an 11 per cent vacancy rate.There are currently 298 vacancies in PRC, in a department of about 900, meaning about a third of its positions are vacant, according to Mary Morrison-Clark, the city’s general manager of parks and rec.“We know that doing it the same-old, same-old way, it’s not going to work anymore. So we need to be innovative and we need to do targeted hiring,” Morrison-Clark told the NOW.
In March, staff told council Burnaby has seen a decline of about 46 per cent in swimming lesson spots , directly attributed to a lack of staff.“It really shows our inability to even provide those lessons,” Morrison-Clark said. “And when you do the numbers … that’s going to take us two to three years to catch up on that waitlist, quite honestly. There’s a long road ahead of us to get the pent-up demand and that waitlist reduced, if we can’t increase the number of instructors.
— Burnaby Parks & Rec April 24, 2023 Older adults sought Morrison-Clark said along with targeting high schoolers and youth, she wants to create training programs for older adults. She hopes to approach the training a bit differently, providing programs for those in their 50s to take with their own age group.
Morrison-Clark said the parks department is hiring multiple roles for full-time, part-time and auxiliary positions.
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