Labour Market Facilitator

2 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada Inclusion Nova Scotia Full time

**Labour Market Facilitator**

**Halifax**

POSITION: Full-time employment (37.5 hours per week)

TERM: Contract to March 2025, with the possibility of extension

Inclusive employers outpace their competitors by harnessing the unique skills, perspectives, and potential of a diverse workforce. **Ready, Willing & Able (RWA)** is a national employment initiative that supports employers to hire inclusively. Since 2014, RWA has supported businesses to hire more than 4,000 employees who are on the autism spectrum or have an intellectual disability. One of RWA’s Nova Scotia delivery partners, **Inclusion Nova Scotia** is seeking a **Labour Market Facilitator **to grow the RWA program in the HRM.

Inclusion Nova Scotia is a provincial not-for-profit organization committed to ensuring that individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families have the support they require to live full and inclusive lives in community. Inclusion NS does this by empowering and supporting individuals and families, promoting rights and values in keeping with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), encouraging reform, and collaborating with other organizations for social justice.

**About the Role**

Do you have experience building relationships with employers? Do you have a talent for making connections and creating linkages across sectors? The Labour Market Facilitator is a relationship builder - developing connections and partnerships with employers of all kinds, employment agencies, and a ready, willing, and able workforce of job seekers who have an intellectual disability or who are on the autism spectrum.

This position reports to the Executive Director.

**Salary: $50,000-$52,000 Annual **+ benefits

**Key responsibilities**
- Conduct business outreach & engagement across various sectors and industries to promote the value of inclusive hiring.
- Engage employers to diversify their hiring practices and expand recruitment and hiring of people on the autism spectrum or with an intellectual disability.
- Link hiring demand to qualified talent pool & build community capacity to support job seekers and employees with an intellectual disability or autism.
- Develop partnerships with community employment agencies and developmental service organizations to identify job seekers to fill open roles.
- Deliver presentations and information tools for business groups to promote the employment of people with an intellectual disability or who are on the autism spectrum.

**Additional Responsibilities**
- Ensure adequate and ongoing information dissemination, development of tools and resources, and development and delivery of public awareness efforts.
- Participate in national RWA communication and marketing campaign activities, including use of social media, LinkedIn, etc.
- Attend monthly national RWA team conference calls.
- Liaise and maintain working relationship with local RWA colleagues, the RWA national team and provincial partners.
- Meet all reporting and documentation requirements of the national RWA program, including but not limited to completion of quarterly reporting and maintenance of client management data base.
- Other duties as required and/or assigned.

**Qualifications, Skills and Experience**
- Commitment to full inclusion for people with an intellectual disability and autism, including the right to employment and economic participation in the community.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with talent to communicate effectively with people of all walks of life and experiences
- Strong knowledge of local labour market issues and trends.
- Experience in employment equity, diversity, and inclusion is an asset.
- Knowledge of issues and barriers faced by people with intellectual disability and autism in accessing the labour market is a plus.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation, and public speaking skills.
- Experience working in a community development framework.
- Proficiency in MS Office Applications and client relationship management software. Aptitude for learning new online systems and tools.
- A valid driver’s license and access to a reliable vehicle.
- Post-secondary education in a related field (e.g. Human Resources, Business, Communications, Marketing, Social Services, Disability Studies, Education) or equivalent experience.

**Working Conditions**
- Flexibility is required based on deadlines and requirements. Occasional evening and weekend work required.

**Applicants Must**
- Submit a cover letter with their resume
- Produce a clean criminal reference check, which includes vulnerable sector screening
- Possess a valid Nova Scotia driver’s license and vehicle for the purposes of work

**Salary**: $50,000.00-$52,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-06-09

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