Labour Market Research Assistant

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada Skills for Change Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**JOB CLASSIFICATION**: Labour Market Research Assistant

**DEPARTMENT**: Program Design

**COMPANY**: Skills for Change

**LOCATION**: 791 St. Clair Ave West, Toronto ON

**REPORTS TO**: Supervisor, Research & Program Design.

**CONTRACT TYPE**: Permanent (Union)

**HOURS**: 20 hours per week (Monday
- Friday occasional evenings and/or weekend hours)

**RATE**: $19.06

**START DATE**: Immediately

**APPLICATION DEADLINE**: Open until filled

**COMPANY**:
Located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, Skills for Change is working towards advancing the Sustainable Development Goals for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Named Charity Village’s Best Non-Profit Employer - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and winner of the 2021 Canada Volunteer Awards for innovation, our organization is committed to reducing poverty, improving mental health, eliminating gender-based violence, building community, eradicating systemic racism, and settling and creating sustainable communities for all immigrants, refugees, and underserved communities. Start your career with SfC and join our 40-year history of creating innovative programming to build welcoming and equitable communities.

**GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY**:
Founded in 1982, Skills for Change is a leading non-profit organization serving immigrants and refugees in Canada. Our mission is to work with newcomers and underserved groups, providing holistic solutions that bridge the gap between potential and opportunity for success in Canada. Skills for Change is known for pioneering programs that respond to shifting immigration and workplace trends and lead to employment. Our Agency has played a major role in uplifting immigrant and underserved communities for 41 years. Skills for Change offers more than 25 programs and services and annually serves 20,000 individuals.

**Skills for Change is working to**:

- Reduce poverty through decent jobs,
- Settle newcomers to build a life in Canada,
- Improve Mental Health and Wellbeing,
- Build skills to promote increased labour market freedom,
- Advocate for environmentally sustainable and healthy communities,
- Combat social and professional isolation through mentorship and networking,
- Help underserved seniors to make friends and be digitally safe,
- Empower entire communities to work towards eradicating systemic racism,
- Provide youth with equal access to opportunities,
- Promote gender equality.

**PROGRAM NATURE AND SCOPE**:
The Research Assistant will work under the supervision of the Supervisor, Program Design and will support all research-related, activities, writing of funding proposals and provide assistance in regard to data management including (but not limited to):
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Support with remote data gathering activities using e-surveys, polls, telephone interviews, and virtual focus groups.
- Engage in data compilation activities including but not limited to: tabulating and entering data, preparing data tables, cleansing datasets and setting up spreadsheets;
- Engage in numeric and textual data analysis activities including (but not limited to) cross tabulations, descriptive data mining, frequency tables, measures of central tendency and dispersion, cluster analysis, time series analysis, content analysis, thematic coding, framework analysis, time-ordered matrices.
- Support the Labour Market Information Analyst’s research through literature review along with connecting with community stakeholders online and by telephone.
- Aid in the development and implementation of impactful research projects (e.g. needs assessments of core client groups, workforce integration strategy papers, Focus area best practices white papers, shared solutions podcasts/videos, shared challenges statement);
- Present data, when requested, in a manner that will be understood by co-workers and stakeholders.
- Support SfC project activities as required.
- Perform other administrative duties as required.
- Scanning and updating grants pipeline for funding opportunities as required.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:

- Strong verbal & written communication skills in English language (French and another language is an asset);
- Strong customer service skills.
- Demonstrated time management & organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently to achieve day-to-day results in a diverse and dynamic team environment.
- Evidence of research, analytical and report writing skills, preferably related to labour market information is required.
- Research experience in labour market or workforce development planning is required.
- Knowledge and experience performing analysis of multiple data sets, data collection, statistical analysis, quantitative and qualitative research, and dissemination of results is required.
- Knowledge of local, provincial, and federal labour market sources (i.e. Statistics Canada, Labour Force

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