Coordinator, Youth Initiatives

**Job Posting**: Coordinator, Youth Initiatives

**Type**: Full-Time

**Salary**: $40,000/year

**Start**: As Soon As Possible

**Locations**:Winnipeg and surrounding communities

**Reports To**: Manager, Youth Initiatives

**Executive Summary**

Career Trek Inc. is looking for an energetic, dynamic, team player who thrives in a space of innovation, growth, change, and out-of-the-box thinking to work as its Coordinator - Youth Initiatives. Reporting to the Manager,

Youth Initiatives, the primary role of the Coordinator is to provide leadership and support in the day-to-day development and delivery of the Career Trek’s youth programs, which include 'M' Power, CRAVE, Get Ready to

Work, Youth Summer Day Camps, Career Trek Days, and any new programming for grades 9 to 12.

The Coordinator is responsible for ensuring high-quality delivery of hands-on, experiential lessons, spanning a number of sectors including trades, technology, natural resources, STEM, and healthcare, and will work to incorporate land-based education and an Indigenous perspective. The Coordinator practices and role models

1. Ensuring high-quality, high-impact program delivery that provides participants with engaging and immersive career exploration lessons and skill development opportunities

2. Establishing relationships with participants and their families, schools, community members, businesses, and other organizations that align with Career Trek’s Mission and Vision

**Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities**
- Provide leadership to program staff to further Career Trek’s culture, mission, vision, and core values
- Work with and support the Manager, Youth Initiatives, and other members of the Programs

Leadership Team to ensure consistent, high-quality, high-impact, programs across all portfolios and regions
- Establish and nurture a working environment that creates employee engagement and empowers Career Trek employees and volunteers to thrive in an environment of change

**Programming**
- Coordinate the day-to-day logistics and delivery of the programs in the Youth Initiatives portfolio
- Provides on-site supervision at program delivery sites as needed
- Communicate effectively and professionally with staff, families, partnering schools, post
- secondary partners, and the public
- Ensure program activities operate within the policies and procedures of Career Trek
- Establish and strengthen relationships with departments at each partnering post-secondary institution, community groups, organizations, schools, and families
- Participate in the implementation and evaluation of all programming activities in the Youth

Initiatives portfolio
- Provide feedback to Career Trek’s Curriculum Development Team to ensure programming is current, relevant, and engaging for participants
- Participate in the review of Career Trek programs, practices, and policies through an anti-racism and reconciliation lens
- As part of a team, develop and facilitate presentations to students, families, and school personnel
- Plan and implement special events, such as family days, graduations/celebrations, and various service contracts

**Human Resources**
- Participate in the recruitment, hiring, training, and mentorship of programming staff and volunteers
- Be informed about, and adhere to, human resources policies, procedures, and practices of the organization
- Ensure that program staff personnel files are properly maintained and kept confidential
- Ensure Youth Initiatives program staff meet performance standards by providing support, direction, and feedback
- Create a work culture that empowers staff to think creatively, bring new ideas forward, and thrive in an environment of change and expansion

**Financial and Administrative Management**
- Assist the Manager in drafting, managing, and monitoring Youth Initiatives program budgets according to established accounting policies and procedures
- Record program information, data, and progress on objectives, including narrative comments, on a consistent basis, to support the development of reports, proposals, marketing, and communications
- Ensure that participant and alumni files are properly maintained and kept confidential
- Ensure required invoices and expense reconciliations are generated and submitted for review and payment according to established accounting policies and procedures and in a timely manner

**Revenue Development**
- Monitor, track, and report on achievement of key metrics for each of the Youth Initiatives programs
- Provide program-specific narrative content for use in reports, proposals, and communications
- Maintain successful and productive relationships with current and potential funders in the region

**Skill Requirements**
- 1+ years of management and supervision experience
- Experience in program or project planning and implementation
- Flexible, professional, and effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Strong