Youth & Family Engagement Coordinator

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Lumenus Community Services Full time

The Youth and Family Engagement Coordinator, will actively provide leadership in developing and strengthening the Lumenus Community Services youth and family engagement strategy through the following activities: embedding key principles at every level of the organization; informing best practice, new cultural norms and expectations; and building capacity and sustainability for the agency as a whole while supporting current youth and family engagement programming through the Youth Engagement Committee, Family Engagement Committee, and the New Mentality activities.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Operationalize the Lumenus youth and family engagement framework**
- Promote youth and family engagement activities across the agency through internal committees
- Develop and execute educational opportunities about youth and family engagement in collaboration with the youth and family engagement facilitators and related committees within the agency and the community
- Provide consultation to program staff across Lumenus regarding youth and family engagement
- Support Lumenus staff in creating opportunities for embedding youth and family engagement principles across the agency
- Hire and support youth and family engagement facilitator positions
- Chair monthly family engagement committee meetings
- Actively recruit for staff members and family members to participate in engagement committees

**Develop key partnerships within the community**
- Collaborate with key partners on youth and family engagement focused initiatives
- Liaise with sector youth and family engagement communities of practice

**Evaluation**
- Collect data for evaluation of the agency youth and family engagement strategy as a whole, as well as the specific activities within the framework
- Analyze Lumenus’ compliance with accreditation and industry standards for youth and family engagement

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Post-secondary education in social services or social studies
- Minimum 2 years experience supervising youth groups/projects

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:

- Strong group facilitation skills
- Ability to recruit and work with diverse youth and family members
- Computer and social media literacy
- Experience working effectively with youth and family members
- Ability to demonstrate and work through a lens of sensitivity to diversity related to race, religion, culture, cognitive functioning, poverty, sexual orientation and gender identity, etc.
- Demonstrated capacity for networking with strong interpersonal skills in order to effectively liaise with a variety of agency staff, external professionals and individuals
- Self-starter with ability to work in team environment and take initiative while accepting guidance
- Strong documentation and writing skills
- Strong organizational and administrative skills

**ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**:

- Satisfactory clearance under the Vulnerable Sector Screening process
- Flexibility and ability to work 2-3 evenings per week to facilitate youth and family meetings
- Must be able to participate in team meetings, supervision, and training sessions as required
- Ability to work respectfully and collaboratively with wider staff teams and abide by Lumenus policies.

We ask applicants to make any accommodation requests for the interview or selection process known in advance by contacting the Human Resources Department. Human Resources will work together with the hiring committee to arrange reasonable and appropriate accommodation for the selection process which will enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner.

Lumenus believes that immunization against COVID-19 is an individual and societal responsibility and that we must do everything possible to protect our clients, families, employees, students, volunteers and contractors against the spread of COVID-19. **As a condition of employment, proof of full vaccination or exemption under the Ontario Human Rights Code must be submitted to Human Resources seven (7) calendar days prior to start date.

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