Employment Counsellor

1 month ago

Toronto, Canada Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto Full time

**Job Posting**: Employment Counsellor**
**Hours**: 21 hours per week**
**Duration**: March 2025 (with the possibility of extension)**
**Remuneration**: $33.80/per hour**:
**About the Organization**:
**This position is a part of MNLCT’s employment initiative to help clients get access to meaningful employment opportunities. The position holder is expected to provide labor employment counselling and supports to newcomer women and other vulnerable populations - individual and group. This role will oversee creating bridges to engage employers in hiring newcomer talent, and preparing clients in occupation-specific mentoring, networking opportunities, and Canadian workplace culture. Working directly with our Settlement Workers, this position will help clients explore appropriate career paths within their field, provide guidance and counselling, and support clients job search initiatives. This role reports to the Settlement Program Coordinator.**:
**Position Summary**
**Essential Duties**
- **Work as part of a team with the support of the Program Manager, and other employment counselling staff.**:

- **Analyze potential employment opportunities to determine suitability with job and career objectives.**:

- **Develop and facilitate an engaging training curriculum on job search skills such as resume writing, mock interviews, information interviews, workplace culture and networking.**:

- **Create an innovative course and workshop content that applies adult learning principles and methodologies to engage, enroll, and retain clients.**:

- **Conduct group and 1-1 job coaching sessions to help participants explore realistic career paths.**:

- **Create, write and edit resumes with participants; knowledge of various resume formats, ATS capabilities and the ability to determine the best formats based on clients’ fields.**:

- **Maintain an active caseload, including all file management responsibilities.**:

- **Offer Individual support to participants who struggle throughout the program and refer them to the appropriate services (internally and externally).**:

- **Build and sustain relationships with private and public sector employers, encouraging them to offer employment opportunities, and to hire newcomer women Provide reports on outcomes as outlined in the Project Work Plan as it relates to the client’s participation in program activities.**:

- **Support program events, admissions, documentation, and other program related activities as needed.**:

- **Represent MNLCT at external workshops and meetings.**:

- **Other related duties as assigned.**:
**Minimum Qualifications**
- **A post-secondary education in Career and Work Counselling, and/or an**

**acceptable combination of equivalent experience (career development,**
**human resources and/or adult learning).**
- **1-3 years of experience working in a similar role.**:

- **Demonstrable success in placing clients in a variety of fields/sectors of**

**employment.**
- **Experience in job search facilitation and employment case**

**management.**
- **Experience with successfully matching program participants with**

**employers; relationship building with stakeholders and employers.**
- **Thorough knowledge of job search and career development including**

**networking, labor market trends, and social media platforms such as**
**LinkedIn.**
- **Knowledge of adult learning principles including facilitation, use of**

**digital/social media and/or online learning concepts.**
- **Demonstrated experience in case and file management.**

**Knowledge and experience working with immigrant, newcomer, and**
**refugee women.**
- **Excellent presentation and facilitation skills (online facilitation in**

**Zoom/MS Teams).**
- **Passion for people, equality, and social justice. Empathy, cultural**

**sensitivity, anti-oppression, and gender equity approach.**
- **Must have experience working with newcomers and other vulnerable**

**populations from a variety of cultural backgrounds.**
- **Strong teamwork skills with the ability to work independently.**:

- **Ability to work virtually and in person at any of MNLCT’s locations.**:

- **Exceptional computer literacy skills and above-average proficiency in all**

**aspects of Microsoft Office, Client Management Systems, Adobe, and**
**other similar productivity software.**
- **Speaking Spanish is a Must.**:

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