Employment Opportunities

Program Coordinator:
Apatisiwin

Status: Full Time, Permanent
Location: London, ON
Wage: $24.00/hr
Deadline to Apply: October 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm

The Apatisiwin Program Coordinator will provide employment counselling, verify clients’ eligibility or entitlement to insurance benefits, assess the employment assistance needs of clients and determine appropriate interventions, assess client employment readiness and literacy needs in order to become employment ready, prepare client/employer/organization intervention contracts, engage in contract monitoring activities. The Apatisiwin Program Coordinator will report to and work under the direct supervision of the Education Section Manager.

Qualifications:

  • A bachelor’s degree or college diploma in a related field, such as psychology, social services or education, or Completion of secondary school

  • A minimum of two (2) years of direct employment counselling or job coach experience and/or certified in one of the following Assessment Component of Employment Counselling, Life Skills Coach, Career Development Practitioner or Career Facilitation or in services related to counselling

  • The Applicant requires strong public relation skills and demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining effective relations with community partners and stakeholders

  • Strong knowledge of and experience with contracts and the ability to maintain notes, files and action planning and counselling interventions

  • Demonstrated ability to provide respectful, courteous and professional services with a client-centered approach, paying particular attention to the client barriers to employment and career enhancement

  • Working knowledge of Industry trends, the local labor market and the areas of growth projected as skills shortages in various sectors

  • Experience in developing employment related workshops and group facilitation

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills

  • Will possess knowledge of Indigenous historical and contemporary issues

  • Possesses no criminal charges/record pertaining to offences against the vulnerable sector

  • Experience completing quarterly statistical and narrative reporting

  • Capacity to work under pressure, meet deadlines and work flexible hours

  • Proficiency in applicable software programs including word processing and data base programs

  • Must possess valid driver’s license and daily access to personal reliable transportation.

Responsibilities:

  • Verify clients’ eligibility or entitlement to insurance benefits, assess the employment assistance needs of clients and determine appropriate interventions, assess client employment readiness and literacy needs in order to become employment ready, prepare client/employer/organization intervention contracts, engage in contract monitoring activities;

  • Interpret EU budgets and financial statement, monitor contract commitments and actual expenditures on all contracts, understand the terms and conditions laid out in the allocations

  • Work in coordination with finance when administrating the operations and or intervention budgets

  • Participate on committees that promote Employment & Training Initiatives, Promotion of potential partnerships between other Employment Unit/Local Delivery Mechanisms and other agencies

  • Exercise confidentiality of client information as per Privacy Act

  • Maintain client flies in a locked filing cabinet

  • Input client information and maintain client files on a daily basis

  • Develop and design program promotion materials, advertising, pamphlets, brochures, newspaper

  • Report monthly and quarterly and annual basis as required by the OFIFC

  • Develop annual community plan, quarterly narrative reports to the OFIFC

  • Accurately report and ensure all program objectives are being met in accordance with agreements

  • To undertake any other such reasonable duties as may be assigned from time to time

If you are interested in applying to this position please submit a full application package including the following:
Cover letter, resume, Two (2) work related references and one (1) character reference, copies of any relevant certificates, diplomas or degrees, vulnerable sector CPIC.

Please email your application package to:
oms@namerind.on.ca
re: Apatisiwin Coordinator

or

Mail/Hand-deliver to:
N’Amerind Friendship Centre
260 Colborne Street
London, ON
N6B 2S6

 Please note that late or incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Only those contacted will be granted an interview.
A registered member of a First Nation as per Section 16 (1) of the Human Rights Act is preferred.
All applicants understand and agree that by submitting a job application; at their cost, the Successful candidate will be required to submit a clear Vulnerable Sector Police Record Check (Level 3) as a condition of employment.