Student Support and Placement Officer

3 weeks ago

Hamilton, Canada Mohawk College Full time

**Student Support and Placement Officer (App. D/Temp. Assignment: Sept. 2023 - Feb. 2024)** Status**:Appendix D/Temporary Assignment: September 2023 - February 2024

**Hours**: Monday - Friday, 35 hours/week

**Home Campus**: Fennell

**Payband**: G

**Rate of Pay**:$30.87

**Posting Date**:August 18th, 2023

**Closing Date**: August 24th, 2023 at 7:00 pm EST

We support and encourage the contributions of our diverse employees. We are committed to nurturing an equitable, diverse and inclusive (EDI) environment for everyone who learns and works at Mohawk College. We believe the rich diversity among our students and the communities we serve should be reflected within our workforce. As educators we believe it is important to act and show leadership in advancing the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in our community.

Mohawk College is currently recruiting for our next

**Student Support and Placement Officer**

The Student Support and Placement Officer role is an integral component of the Career Pathways team. The incumbent acts as a liaison and primary College contact for placement supervisors and students in the Career Pathways program. The incumbent will recruit placements in the community that are suitable for the needs of the student and the program. The incumbent ensures an appropriate match and provides liaison between the student and the placement. Throughout the placement term, the incumbent will monitor the students in their placements, including monitoring the students’ workplace performance through check-ins with supervisor, student, tracking hour completion, and relevant student’s assigned tasks. They will also provide basic employment supports to students through the review of various professional and employment skills, and will connect appropriate students to community-based employment supports as needed. The incumbent also provides academic student support in the classroom and the Career Pathways lab. In this role the incumbent will provide clarification of assignments and in-class materials, support a variety of learning strategies, accompany students to the Square, ALS, the OneCard office and invigilate tests and exams. The incumbent also advocates, intervenes and acts on behalf of the Career Pathways student with faculty, other College students, and College-wide services. The incumbent will attend staff meetings and communicate issues as they occur.

**Responsibilities**:
Position duties include, but are not limited to:
**Recruit appropriate placement sites that meet individual Career Pathways student placement plans by marketing and networking in the community as follows**:

- ** **Researching agencies, businesses and services within the geographic catchment area of the college to gain an understanding of potential placement opportunities
- Identifying and communicating with potential placement agencies/employers to educate them about the Career Pathways program goals and philosophy, and to recruit appropriate sites for Career Pathways student placements in a variety of focus areas
- Confirming placements that are available and appropriate for program/student needs
- Following up with sites before, during and after student placement to receive feedback and input for change/improvement
- Using placement plan information created in previous and community placement directories to identify potential placements
- Communicating potential placement sites to students to identify possible concerns and appropriateness

**Support students academically in Career Pathways lab and classrooms by**:

- ** **Providing clarification of assignments and in-class materials
- Escorting students to the Square to support student access of Square services (Financial Aid, Counselling, ALS Accommodations)
- Escorting students to IT or the OneCard office to support student’s technical needs
- Supporting a variety of learning strategies (including note-taking the use of adaptive technologies, computer program/software), and setting up and assisting with the use of adaptive equipment when needed (in and out of class)
- Providing technical assistance for students as they navigate the LMS
- Fostering student independence through encouraging self-advocacy and student initiative
- Invigilating tests and exams (including verbal testing, alternate area from class, group testing in the lab or classroom)

**Support students in placement experiences by**:

- ** **Preparing Career Pathways students for interviews and placements
- Facilitating interviews between Career Pathways students and placement supervisors
- Ensuring all placement requirements for Career Pathways students (e.g. health forms, police record searches, WSIB forms etc.) are completed and on file
- Ensuring that Career Pathways students have knowledge of and can arrive at placement in a timely manner
- Identifying and developing appropriate workplace strategies for the Career Pathways student and the supervisor to encourage Career Pathways studen

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