Program Lead, Focus On Youth Program

3 weeks ago


Hamilton, Canada Hamilton Wentworth District School Full time

**Job Code**:
3419697

**Closing Date**:
Feb 24, 2023 4:00 PM EST

**Employer**:
**Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board**

**Posted on**:
Feb 06, 2023

**Job Type**:
Full Time
Contract / term
Occasional

**Job Category**:
ECE, EA and Support Staff

**Openings**:
**Mandatory Document**:

- Resume

Cover Letter
- **School**:

- Hamilton ON
- **Start Date**:
2023/03/27

**End Date**:
2023/09/01

**Salary**:
$30.00 per hour

**Program Lead, Focus on Youth Program**

**$30.00 per hour, 35 hours per week**
***March 27**(Approximately) to September 1, 2023**
**Contract Position**

Under the direction of the HWDSB Engagement Officer, the Focus on Youth (FOY) Program Lead supports the Focus on Youth summer program. This role employs best practices in recruitment, hiring, training delivery, program evaluation, and student success strategies to meet the needs, interests, and strengths of student employees to engagement them in a meaningful and rewarding experience.

**Duties include, but are not limited to**:

- Coordinate interviews, hiring and orientation of HWDSB secondary students and contribute to arranging the placement of hired students in a variety of programs
- Coordinate interviews, hiring and orientation of Focus on Youth Program Monitors and Assistant
- Create and/or build upon tools for managing information collection and program evaluation
- Develop, deliver and evaluate training in accordance with HWDSB policies/procedures and applicable legislation for approximately 70 Focus on Youth student employees hired to work in various placement streams
- Oversee and support five Program Monitors and one Program Assistant
- Plan and implement one week of pre-employment training for FOY student employees
- Support a group of student employees in the successful performance of placement duties, in collaboration with a team of Program Monitors and a Program Assistant
- Assist in the preparation of program final reports
- The successful applicant will require the flexibility to work some evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the program and its participants

**Qualifications**:

- Completion of a relevant post-secondary education, including but not limited to, education, recreation and leisure, social work, community engagement
- Demonstrated understanding (gained through lived and professional experience) of issues affecting underserved groups and working with diverse communities using anti-colonial, anti-oppressive and anti-racist lens, culturally relevant and responsive approaches
- Demonstrated experience supervising and supporting children and youth, preferably in a community program setting
- Experience facilitating training and development to a youth audience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail, and multi-tasking abilities
- Proven interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to engage, problem solve and work efficiently with a diverse group of stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively as a member of a team to provide appropriate and proactive support and services
- Demonstrated ability to lead consistently and provide objective evaluation
- Criminal Record Check (vulnerable sector) valid within the past six months
- Must possess a class "G" driver's license valid in the province of Ontario and have access to a reliable vehicle
- Knowledge of HWDSB organizational structures, program and policies is considered an asset
- Valid Standard First Aid CPR-C & AED certification is an asset

**Deadline for submission is 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 24**th**, 2023.**

**Interview Dates: March 13**th** - 17**th**, 2023**

**Interview Format**:Panel over MS Teams**

**Employment Equity Statement**

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board is committed to equity in employment. We are committed to fair and equitable hiring practices that allow us to hire qualified staff who reflect the diversity of the communityweserve,whowillfosterthesuccessandwell-beingofourstudents,whoarelifelonglearnerswho demonstrate a commitment to equity and inclusion in theclassroom.
- Indigenous Peoples (e.g. First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples)
- Members of groups that commonly experience discrimination due to race, ancestry, colour, religion and/or spiritual beliefs, or place of origin; (e.g. Black and racialized communities, immigrant communities, etc.)
- Persons with visible and/or invisible (physical and/or mental) disabilities;
- Persons who identify as women; and
- Persons of marginalized sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions. (e.g. Two Spirit and LGBTQIA+)

We are committed to the security and confidentiality of information under our control, and to the protection ofprivacywithrespecttopersonalandconfidentialinformationthatiscollected,used,disclosedandretained inthesystem**(Policy**1.6**-**Privacy)**.**Informationonthisformiscollectedpursuantto**Ontario’s**Education**Equity**Action Plan**(Ministry of Education) and in accordance



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