Do you have experience building relationships with employers? Do you have a talent for making connections and creating linkages across sectors? The Inclusive Employment Facilitator is a relationship builder - developing connections and partnerships with employers of all kinds, employment agencies, and a ready, willing, and able workforce of job seekers who have an intellectual disability or are on the autism spectrum.
Responsibilities
- Engage employers across all sectors and industries to diversify their hiring practices and promote the value of inclusive hiring.
- Link hiring demand to a qualified talent pool & build community capacity to support job seekers and employees with an intellectual disability or autism.
- Develop partnerships with Saskatoon employment agencies to identify job seekers to fill employment opportunities.
- Deliver presentations and information tools for business groups to promote employment.
Qualifications and Experience
- Commitment to inclusion for people with an intellectual disability and autism, including the right to employment and economic participation.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with people from all walks of life.
- Excellent presentation, facilitation, and public speaking skills.
- Experience in sales and lead generation.
- Strong knowledge of the Saskatoon labour market.
- Experience in employment equity, diversity, and inclusion is an asset.
- Knowledge of issues and barriers faced by people with intellectual disability and autism in accessing the labour market is an asset.
- Proficiency in MS Office Applications and client relationship management software.
- Post-secondary education in a related field (e.g. Human Resources, Business, Communications, Marketing, Social Services, Disability Studies, Education) or equivalent experience.
See full posting here: https://ca.indeed.com/job/inclusive-employment-facilitator-629931c89428371d