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Description

About:
The Creating Opportunities Strategy is a Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre program targeted to low-income individuals with multiple barriers to employment. The program is designed to meet each individual where they currently sit on the pre-employment spectrum. Creating Opportunities involves a mix of workshop facilitation, supported work experience placements, free public workshops and certifications, job coaching, and much more.

Job purpose
The Program Facilitator is responsible for organizing and facilitating public workshops and certification sessions that equip community members with the necessary skills and resources to succeed in their professional journeys. This position is highly collaborative, working in tandem with other Creating Opportunities Strategy staff as well as many external community partners to provide innovative, creative, and necessary content to the public.

Program Facilitation/Support Duties:
Develop workshop content to address community employment support and skills training needs according to community and industry trends.
Facilitate engaging and interactive workshops designed to develop essential employability skills, including but not limited to communication, time management, conflict resolution, interview skills, resume writing, culturally relevant programming, Canadian workplace culture, etc
Coordinate certification session, providing participants with specialized training to enhance their employability in a variety of industries.
Conduct needs assessments on prospective participants to determine where internal and external referrals are appropriate.