CharityVillage

Employment Consultant - IES (2025-343-CP)
Employment Type: Permanent Full-time, Bargaining Unit (1 Vacancy)
Work Hours: 35 hours/week (Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm)
Work Setting: Exclusively Onsite - 1533 Victoria Park Ave, Toronto, ON
Salary: External Rate G7: $54,097.76; Internal Rate G8: $55,201.79
             
Program Overview – Integrated Employment Services, Community Programs
Integrated Employment Services at WoodGreen is a high-performance team that improves communities, families and individual lives through effective access to employment. Working at a local Integrated Employment Services Centre or other sites in the City of Toronto, they rapidly help high-need jobseekers obtain quality, sustainable employment. The employment needs in the City of Toronto are intense, and our staff bring compassion, energy, focus and skill to address these needs in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. WoodGreen’s staff are supported by caring managers, training, tools, procedures, and systems for success.  We aim to have the best jobseeker client experience and outcomes available in Canada, and our Integrated Employment Services team is a cornerstone of this success.

What You Will Do

• Provide job coaching, conduct intake assessments, develop Personal Action Plans, and provide one on one pre-employment support and employability skills guidance to job seekers.
• Schedule, prepare, update, and facilitate job search workshops, special events, and curriculum according to the goals of the program and clients’ needs utilizing a variety of multimedia tools.
• Develop excellent relationships with community partners providing services to youth, OW and ODSP case workers, and colleges and Universities programs to ensure all external partners are aware of start dates and refer to the program on job coaching to support successful work experiences/placement activities.
• Assist in tracking all program activity related to intake data, participation, milestones, outcomes, stipends, wage subsidy, and other required information
• Document client/employer files, case management, conduct appropriate and regular follow-up activities with program participants, and maintain client activity service statistical and financial information for monthly reports.
• Assess employment and stabilization needs of clients, establish realistic short- and long-term goals to address employment, develop employment action plans identifying next steps required to meet employment goals and employment outcome targets, and refer to other appropriate services in the community as required.
• Exceed all other required contractual, client and/or agency requirements.
• Work in collaboration with the Employment team ensuring optimum client service.
• Assist with administration, marketing, other duties as required to support the strategic plans.
• Follow all agency Health and Safety Policies and procedures.

What You Bring to the Team

• Degree or diploma in Social Work, Social Services Workers or related field.
• Experience and/or training in career counselling (e.g. needs assessment, job search, job development, job retention).
• Experience in leading group workshops or activities.
• Knowledge of labour market trends, especially related to employment of vulnerable populations including youth, newcomers, OW/ODSP recipients, and long-time unemployed population.
• Knowledge of pre-employment support methods and re-training opportunities

What Will Set You Apart

• Knowledge and/or connections with community resources and supports.
• Highly ethical, compassionate and purpose driven with an overarching desire to support client success toward employment, staff empowerment and system wide improvement in effective service delivery.
• Energy and enthusiasm to meet new people, listen and learn about their needs and experience, and work to improve their life and the lives and their families.
• Oriented toward coaching and facilitating others to share information and suggest success strategies;
• Comfortable speaking with employers to understand their needs/perspective while advocating for clients.
• A strong sense of personal accountability for achieving individual targets
• Patience, compassion and sensitivity to deal with different cultures and different levels of abilities among clients, colleagues, partners and others in the work environment.
• Understanding of and ability to communicate principles and practice of diversity and anti-racism.
• Excellent organization and time management skills and strong attention to detail.
• Strong computer literacy, including Microsoft Office suite and database application, online learning, online job search, online research, building an online presence (e.g. with LinkedIn), networking and community building online.