Part-time Studio Facilitator

1 week ago

Toronto, Canada YWCA Toronto Full time

**Employment Type**:Part-Time, Permanent

**Work Hours**:28 hours per week (including evenings and weekends)

**Salary**:Prorated $44,751 annually (Level 7), plus comprehensive benefits

**Location**:389 Church Street Toronto, Ontario M5B 2E5

**Internal Application Deadline**:Friday, November 17, 2023

**External Application Deadline**:Monday, November 20, 2023

**JOIN OUR TEAM**

The Part-Time Studio Facilitator is responsible for coordinating the daily program of Inspirations Studio including managing the space, communicating studio practices and policies, and liaising with the Manager on member access and public pottery classes/ workshops. The position also coordinates core members' program including outings, Master Potters' workshops, custom pottery orders, on-line and in-house shops, Bi-annual Holiday Market and Open House, and pottery team building exercises. The responsibilities are to be carried out in accordance with the mission and policies of YWCA Toronto.

**ABOUT YWCA TORONTO - INSPIRATIONS STUDIO**

Inspirations Studio provides studio access, storefront selling opportunities and arts education for women and gender diverse people who have experienced marginalization. Through creative, therapeutic and skill-building work, participants gain self-confidence and stability while connecting to community, gaining a source of supplemental income, and finding a new way to engage with the world as makers. Since 1994, Inspirations Studio has served hundreds of marginalized women and gender diverse people and helped to transform their lives.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assists and supports tenants to be successful in their tenancy by ensuring tenants assume and maintain their tenancy obligations;
- Assists the Intake Co-ordinator with intake and move-in orientation processes;
- Provides crisis prevention, intervention and counseling for women and children primarily in the Affordable units to respond to crisis in ways that support individual and community well-being;
- Models and coaches tenants to use conflict resolution and mediation skills to support positive relations between tenants;
- Assists tenants to problem solve and access relevant community supports;
- Provides education to the tenants on the rights and responsibilities of tenancy, conflict mediation and resolution, crisis prevention and intervention, referrals regarding income supports, employment and health care, assists with budgets and preparation of payment plans when needed;
- Maintains a working knowledge of the Residential Tenancies Act, Housing Services Act, Ontario Human Rights Code and Rent geared to income calculations;
- Receives and responds to all housing related forms in accordance with YWCA procedures.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- In-depth knowledge of an academic discipline normally acquired through completion of an undergraduate degree in Art, with a specialization in ceramics or an undergraduate degree in a related field with an equivalent of a two-year degree in ceramics **(Cases for Equivalency and Demonstrated experience will be considered)**;
- 3-5 years demonstrated expert knowledge and experience working in ceramics and teaching ceramics courses;
- Knowledge of hand-building clay, wheel throwing, pugging, slab rolling and kiln loading, glaze making and firing;
- Adult education training an asset;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and awareness of issues affecting women and girls;
- Experience working in a pottery studio, including health and safety practices;
- Knowledge of and training in trauma-based care, conflict resolution and de-escalation and anti-oppressive practices;
- Counselling approach that is flexible, de-escalates tension, teaches conflict resolution and is focused on success;
- Experience working with volunteers and in customer service environments;
- Excellent customer service skills important;
- Ability to work within an anti-oppression, feminist framework;
- Ability to deliver culturally sensitive services in a multicultural environment;
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure;
- Ability to handle crisis situations effectively both in person and by telephone;
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Ability to maintain a positive approach and a professional manner at all times.

**Posting Date**: November 8, 2023

YWCA Toronto transforms lives. As the city’s largest multi-service women’s organization, we help women and gender diverse people escape violence, move out of poverty and access safe, affordable housing.

We work tenaciously to break down barriers that hold women and gender diverse people back from achieving equality.

**Vaccination Policy**: In accordance with YWCA Toronto’s COVID-19 Vaccination Policy, all YWCA Toronto employees, students and volunteers are strongly encouraged to obtain all COVID-19 vaccinations and booster doses as recommended by Toronto Public Health

YWCA Toronto is a Scent-Sensitive Workplace.

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