Restorative Communities and Supportive Housing Team

2 weeks ago

Kitchener, Canada Mennonite Central Committee Full time

**Position Title**
- Restorative Communities and Supportive Housing Team Lead

**FTE**
- 1.00

**Compensation Type**
- Salary

**Salary Minimum**
- $66,945.00

**Salary Description**

**Benefits**
- Group Benefits package is employer-paid: Supplemental Medical/Dental/Vision, Life Insurance, AD&D, global medical assistance, EAP, and RRSP contributions match - starts on day 1 of employment.

**Location City**
- Kitchener

**Location Country**
- Canada

**Location Description**

**Applications Close Date**
- Aug 03, 2023

**Start Date**
- Sep 05, 2023

**Start Date Flexible**

**Term Length**
- Sept 30, 2024

**Qualifications**
- Required
- Experience in program coordination, administration, and leadership
- Experience leading various types of group facilitated processes
- Proven ability in monitoring and guiding a team to follow best practices for case management, and following program standards, documentation, evaluation, and reporting
- Effective organizational and interpersonal skills are essential
- Experience relating to and communicating in a team environment while supporting case management, and working with professionals in community and in the criminal justice system
- Experience or strong interest in working with diverse and vulnerable populations including people from various cultural backgrounds, income levels, and sensitivity to their needs
- Ability to communicate in an articulate, engaging manner with tact and diplomacy when speaking with diverse audiences including government, donors, supporters, volunteers, etc.
- Initiative, creativity, and flexibility
- Solid reading, writing and analytical skills
- Ability to work independently and prioritize a wide variety of tasks
- Respect for and discretion in dealing with confidential material
- Willing to work within and promote MCC’s Operating Principles
- Ability to work non-standard hours required, including evenings and weekends, as necessary
- Working knowledge of MS Office programs
- Experience in documentation and using a database for case management
- Valid ‘G’ Ontario driver’s license and access to own transportation
- Police vulnerable sector check (required upon hire)
- Legally able to work in Canada

Preferred
- A minimum of five (5) years’ work experience working in a community-based setting delivering programs and services to marginalized individuals, federal or provincial offenders along with a degree in a social services/human services related field, or equivalent
- Experience using different peacemaking, and restorative justice Circle models
- Experience in volunteer coordination and supervision

**Job Synopsis**
- This is a full-time contract role that provides leadership and oversight to two teams of Program Associates working within the Walking with People in Poverty (WWPiP) and Restorative Justice Programs. Contract end date Sept 2024 with options to extend.
The Circle of Support and Accountability (CoSA) Program supports the needs of communities for enhanced safety by providing Circles of Support and Accountability for released individuals with a history of sexual offences returning from Federal or Provincial Institutions. We also provide support for reintegration and work closely with prison institutions.
The Circle of Friends helps meet the need for community integration, a key principle in the “Housing First” approach to ending chronic homelessness. Circle of Friends aims to help participants develop positive social relationships, meaningful activities, and new social roles when they have transitioned from an experience of homelessness to stable housing and a greater sense of having a home in the community.
This is a hybrid role, with the expectations of bring in-person at 50 Kent Ave, Kitchener, Ontario a minimum of 2 days a week.
MCC is a charitable organization that partners with churches and community organizations worldwide to walk with people who are disadvantaged. MCC supports activities that provide emergency assistance, reduce poverty, and promote healthy communities, sustainable living, and alternatives to violence. As an internationally recognized NGO, MCC currently serves in more than 45 countries with over 475 partners, 1,000 staff and 40,000 volunteers.

**Challenges**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Team Lead
- Support the Program Coordinator in leadership and program development
- Experience with and willingness to continue learning to use an anti-racism, anti-oppressive and trauma informed approach to support work, program design, evaluations of processes and service delivery; contribute to a culture of belonging and connection where each person is valued
- Provide guidance and supervision to team members ensuring program standards are being met
- Ensure health, safety, and risk management is in place for staff, volunteers, and participants
- Leading/chairing regular Circles Program team meetings for both CoSA, and Circle of Friends, and integrating team synergies when appropriate
- Integration and

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