🌿 Afternoon Childcare Aide – Montessori School | 📍 Ellicott City, MD | ⏰ Mon–Fri, 1:00–5:00 PM Only | 💰 $17–$20/hr Looking for a part-time afternoon job working with young children? This is it. Bambini Montessori Academy is hiring an Afternoon Childcare Aide to join our team — no mornings, no weekends, no evenings. Just a consistent, Monday–Friday afternoon schedule at a warm, Montessori-inspired child care center serving children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHAT YOU'LL DO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Support lead teachers with afternoon activities and routines • Assist children with snacks, nap time, diapering, and transitions • Engage children in play and developmentally appropriate learning • Help keep classrooms safe, clean, and organized • Promote positive behavior and social-emotional growth ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • High School Diploma or GED (required) • Experience in childcare, babysitting, or early education (preferred) • Infant/Toddler experience is a plus • Patient, dependable, and great with young children • Ability to lift up to 50 lbs and stay active throughout the shift • 45-hour Child Development training preferred — or willingness to complete ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎁 WHAT WE OFFER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • $17–$20/hr based on experience • Paid holidays + PTO + sick and safe leave (after 90 days) • Health, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with employer matching • $150 employee referral bonuses • Professional development and training • Staff appreciation events, quarterly team-building & more! In-person only. No telework. 📩 Apply today — perfect for college students, parents re-entering the workforce, or anyone who loves working with kids in the afternoon hours.