Community Coordinator

2 months ago

Saskatoon, Canada United For Literacy Full time

**Title**: Community Coordinator

**Term**: Permanent (Full-time)

**Location**: Remote w/ regular visits to project sites (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

**Employment Start Date**:December 9th, 2024

**Application Deadline**:ongoing until position(s) are filled

**Why Literacy? Work with purpose at United for Literacy.**

Canada’s literacy divide widens daily because so many people lack adequate support. Solving systemic literacy challenges is key to advancing social equity and prosperity across our country. Literacy changes everything.

United for Literacy (formerly Frontier College) is a national charity that was founded in 1899. We believe literacy is a right, and that every place can be a learning place. Our vision is a Canada in which everyone has the literacy skills they need to achieve their goals at school, at work, and in life. Our mission is to provide local learning support programs that change lives.

We acknowledge this position, and our programming takes place on Treaty 6 Territory and the Homeland of the Métis. We pay our respect to the First Nations and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship with one another.

**The opportunity**:
**Your main responsibilities and major duties**:
**1) Program performance and compliance (50%)**
- Develop, implement and evaluate community partnerships and programs that reflect organizational best practices.
- Customize programming to partner context and learner needs.
- Coordinate resources required to ensure program effectiveness.
- Manage volunteers in accordance with organizational policies.
- Deliver according to annual work plan, funder commitments and budget.

**2) People management (30%)**
- Recruit, select and develop an effective team of staff, volunteer organizational team and tutoring resources.
- Coordinate and manage staff and volunteers by communicating job expectations, planning for, monitoring and evaluating performance outcomes.
- Provide tutor training tailored to program-type and learner needs.
- Influence performance levels through ongoing coaching and feedback, while enforcing organizational values, policies and practices.

**3) Professional development (10%)**
- Coordinate and evaluate community-based conferences that provide literacy related professional development to partners and other stakeholders
- Design, deliver and evaluate literacy related workshops for staff and volunteers of partner organizations, other community stakeholders, parents and learners.

**4) Relationship management (10%)**
- Build, manage and sustain external/internal relationships necessary to support organizational goals by liaising effectively with partners, volunteers, learners, management team and supporters; attending and contributing at meetings, and accurately representing the needs and interests of the organization.

**Skills, Attributes and Requirements**:

- Knowledge and understanding of community and volunteer programs or equivalent, program planning and evaluation, partnerships, volunteer management, relevant socio-economic issues and trends.
- Minimum 1 year experience in related area of work
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-directed
- Diplomacy, tact and judgment
- Post-secondary education
- PC Proficiency (MS Office Suite)

**Additional Assets**:

- Experience with travel to and/or working in remote locations such as Indigenous communities
- Welcoming, confident, and friendly manner, with excellent interpersonal and conflict management skills.
- Experience delivering training material and fostering a vibrant, inclusive learning environment
- Highly committed and organized multi-tasker, with exceptional attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder projects
- Possess passion for literacy, essential skills, and cultural diversity

**Working with United for Literacy**

**Salary**: $45,000/year

**Hours of Work**: Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00pm (some evening and weekend hours may be required)

In addition to your salary, you will benefit from:
Paid time off: 15 vacation days per calendar year, pro-rated
- Plus: paid time off during our seasonal closure between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day
- Plus: half-days off before some long weekends (start your long weekend early)
- Plus: generous and compassionate wellness time allowance, and a “floating day” for personal/cultural events
- Flexible work hours, remote work options (in consultation with your supervisor)
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental benefits package after probationary period
- Employer-matched contribution to defined contribution pension plan. Eligible to enroll after one year of employment.
- A work environment that seeks to be open, inclusive, and fun
- Staff-led groups and committees include, among others: Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI); Green Team; Internal Skills Development; and more.
- Connect with your colleagues from coast to coast to coast for team-wide trainings and learning.

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