Job Description: Career Coach
Company: Association of Co-operative Education and Work Integrated Learning
Location: Remote, British Columbia
Job Category: Development and Engagement
Job Type: Part-time
Salary: $35 -
Hourly
Career Coach
The Association of Co-operative Education and Work Integrated Learning BC/Yukon (ACE-WIL) is a provincial non-profit comprised of post-secondary, publicly-funded institutions in the BC/Yukon region that offer Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning programs. ACE-WIL is currently running the Talent MATCH Program, which promotes work-integrated learning to museums, arts, tourism, culture and hospitality (MATCH) organizations. As Talent MATCH enters its second phase, preparing students to work in these sectors will become a new goal.
Reporting to the Project Manager as well as to the Acting Associate Director, Optional & Professional Programs, the Career Coach will develop resources and coordinate webinars to better prepare students for work-integrated learning placements across the MATCH sectors.
Responsibilities
- Attend focus groups and listen to employers and students
- Liaise with work-integrated learning practitioners at public post-secondary schools across BC in order to connect with students directly and direct them to resource materials
- Research opportunities for student skill development
- Develop resource documents, videos, etc
- Create marketing plan to connect with students
- Coordinate and promote webinars with subject matter experts
- Track student work placements and other relevant statistics and KPIs
- Contribute project findings to final report
Qualifications
- Knowledge of human resources management, particularly recruitment and professional development
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven interpersonal and relationship-building skills with candidates/students
- Proven ability to work collaboratively
- High degree of initiative and proactivity with the ability to multitask.
- Familiarity with Google Docs, Zoom
- Experience with marketing tools such as Canva, Mad Mimi, and social media is an asset.
Due to the remote nature of this position, the successful candidate must have access to their own computer for work.
Wage: $35/hour
Duration: November-August
Hours: 20 hours per week
Deadline: Oct. 24, 2021
Apply to Talent MATCH Project Manager, Debby Reis at debbyreis@uvic.ca
We encourage applications from candidates with a broad range of backgrounds including, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, gender-identification, sexual orientation, class and physical ability.