Description of Program

1st Steps to Employment is a new program that will offer training and support to assist participants in becoming more employable. This position is part of a team so many of the activities listed below will be done as a team.

Personal and Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to work with flexibility and creativity while striving to get tasks and activities accomplished
• Ability to relate well with people of diverse ages, backgrounds and ethnicity
• Ability to encourage and work in an empowering way with others
• Ability to foster an atmosphere of respect and accountability
• Ability to work collegially as part of a staff team
• Good crises intervention and conflict management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good sense of humour
• A non-judgmental attitude
• Clear sense of personal boundaries, gifts and limitations
• Commitment to community development principles
• Awareness of social justice issues

Organizational and Administrative Skills

• Knowledgeable of community services, agencies and resources
• Ability to gather and disseminate information
• Ability to set up and implement screening processes
• Ability to develop necessary administrative tools such as forms for tracking attendance
• Computer literacy skills

Connecting and Supportive Skills

• Ability to encourage and build capacity and independence in the trainees and volunteers
• Ability to engage and oversee trainees and volunteers

Training Skills

• Experience and demonstrated ability to develop curriculum following adult learning methods
• Ability to create processes to track trainee’s progress
• Ability to develop and administer learning and social related assessment tools
• Experience in successfully working with adults with multiple learning barriers

Education Qualifications

• Post-Secondary Education with training in adult education or equivalent work experience

Remuneration: Twenty (20) hours per week/$20-$22 per hour commensurate upon experience. Dependent on funding, hours may increase during the term of the contract.

Submitting an Application

Application Deadline Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Send resumes to:
Attention: Juanita MacKinnon
e-mail: comymin@mts.net
St. Matthew’s – Maryland Community Ministry
641 St. Matthews Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3G 0G6

ONLY APPLICANTS SELECTED FOR INTERVIEWS WILL BE CONTACTED.

Interviews will be held on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012.

Anticipated start date is late February or early March, 2012.