Employer Services Consultant-Horticulture Employment Program

Employer Services Consultant-Horticulture Employment Program

Workforce Development Full Time Milton, ON $65,000 - $75,000 CAD per year

As an Employer Services Consultant, you bring strong employer-engagement, job-development, and relationship-building skills. You understand Ontario’s landscape and horticulture industry and can identify employers’ workforce needs, develop employment opportunities, and communicate the value of hiring GROW participants.

You are proactive, results-focused, and comfortable building new relationships through outreach, site visits, industry events, and ongoing follow-up. You can manage multiple employer relationships and placement opportunities while maintaining accurate records and working toward defined employment and retention targets.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will build and maintain relationships with landscape and horticulture employers, develop paid employment and training placement opportunities, and connect employers with qualified GROW participants.

You will drive employer outreach, recruitment activities, workforce planning support, hiring incentives, placement monitoring, and employer-focused retention strategies. Working closely with participant-facing staff, you will help create strong employment matches and achieve GROW’s employer engagement, placement, and retention targets.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Employer Engagement and Job Development:
• Recruit and engage landscape and horticulture employers across Ontario.
• Build and maintain an active portfolio of employer relationships and employment opportunities.
• Conduct employer outreach through calls, meetings, site visits, industry events, chapter and sector activities, and referrals.
• Assess employers’ workforce needs, hiring requirements, workplace environments, and available positions.
• Promote the benefits of hiring GROW participants, engage and support employers with apprenticeship registration, sponsorship and workforce development, and encourage inclusive, barrier-free recruitment practices.
• Position Landscape Ontario and GROW as trusted workforce-development partners for the industry.
• Maintain regular contact with employers to identify current and future workforce needs.
• Employment and Placement Matching:
• Match GROW participants with suitable registered employers based on participant qualifications, employment goals, employer needs, and workplace fit.
• Develop paid employment, work-experience, and Training Placement Agreement opportunities for GROW participants.
• Gather accurate information about job duties, qualifications, schedules, compensation, workplace expectations, and advancement opportunities.
• Work with the Employment & Career Development Coordinator and other program staff to identify suitable candidates.
• Coordinate employer introductions, interviews, hiring activities, and placement documentation.
• Support employers in understanding applicable hiring incentives, wage subsidies, and program requirements.
• Ensure placement opportunities meet GROW and Ministry requirements.
• Conduct employer and workplace monitoring visits when required.
• Employer Support and Retention:
• Support employers throughout recruitment, onboarding, placement, and retention.
• Help employers address workplace integration, communication, performance, and retention challenges.
• Provide employer-focused coaching, practical resources, and referrals to relevant Landscape Ontario services.
• Liaise with participant-facing staff when an employment issue requires coordinated support.
• Identify risks early and help develop appropriate strategies to support successful employment outcomes.
• Gather employer feedback to improve participant preparation, training, placement quality, and program delivery.
• Employer Initiatives and Industry Outreach:
• Recruit employer participation for hiring events, job fairs, information sessions, workshops, and industry events.
• Recruit employers to participate in GROW’s Employer of Choice (EOC) initiative and support ongoing EOC employer engagement.
• Deliver or support employer-focused training related to recruitment, onboarding, retention, and workforce planning.
• Represent GROW and Landscape Ontario at chapter meetings, sector meetings, trade events, career fairs, and networking activities.
• Develop relationships with industry associations, community partners, Employment Ontario providers, and other workforce-development organizations.
• Share employer and labour-market insights with the GROW team to support recruitment, training, and service planning.
• Performance, Records and Reporting:
• Deliver shared employer engagement, placement,