CEDEC helps communities throughout Quebec to identify, assess, and prepare to act on social, cultural, and economic development opportunities. CEDEC supports communities by lending planning expertise, and following through by brokering the strategic partnerships that make plans a reality. CEDEC strives to encourage and empower all small business owners and entrepreneurs, prospective employees, and potential stakeholders with information, expert input, and other resources indispensable in the development and sustainability of new wealth-generating opportunities.

Project description

CEDEC has been studying the unique needs and challenges of educated Black youth in finding meaningful and gainful employment. The Advancing African-Canadian Career Excellence (ACCE) project encourages Black graduates to stay in the province of Quebec and to contribute to the vitality of the Black community as a whole. This initiative hopes to enhance community vitality by supporting educated Black youth to attain meaningful and sustainable employment commensurate with their skills. To meet this objective, CEDEC is soliciting proposals to facilitate two workshops in September 2015 and January 2016.

Responsibilities

CEDEC seeks to hire a trainer or facilitator to lead its four workshops on Interviewing Skills and Cross Cultural Communication. The workshop presentation and materials must be amended to include hands-on activities (situational exercises) that enable students to practice and better retain the information. These situational exercises must relate to the diverse needs and realities of educated Black youth in Montreal. The Consultant may also choose to adapt the existing workshop materials further and can work directly with the Project Lead on changes that he or she would like to make.

Deliverables

•  Amend workshop presentation and materials:
•  Facilitate workshop : Interview Skills:
•  Post workshop summary report:
•  Amend workshop presentation and materials:
•  Facilitate workshop : Cross-Cultural Communication:
•  Post workshop summary report:

Delivery Date

• July 10, 2015
• end of September 2015 (TBC)
• October 12, 2015 (TBC)
• November 27, 2015 (TBC)
• end of January 2016 (TBC)
• February 8, 2016 (TBC)

Note: The post workshop summary report should include a summary of the student evaluations, the workshop content, the workshop process, best practices, lessons learned and recommendations. Additional topics may be requested. The exact dates and times of the workshops will be confirmed and the summary report will be due within a week of the workshop, unless otherwise agreed upon.

Duration of contract

The contract will end March 31, 2016.

Submissions

All submissions should include the following components: Cover Letter, Contact Information, Information about Consultant and/or Company, Work Plan, Relevant Project Experience, Three Customer References, and Detailed Quote.

Proposals must be received no later than 5:00 pm on Friday, May 29th, 2015 and should be sent via email to the attention of Stacey Dakin at stacey.dakin at cedec.ca. Please indicate “ACCE Workshops” in the subject line.