Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute employer consultation plan in Southwestern Ontario;
• Hold one-on-one and small group meetings (online or in person) at regional workplaces, business networks and professional associations to identify best practices in and/or barriers to recruiting/hiring and retaining immigrant talent;
• Coach employers on opportunities to address systemic inequities in recruitment and retention practices including facilitating conversations surrounding unconscious bias, racism and discrimination;
• Support employers in developing a realistic step by step action plan to strengthen workforce practices in immigrant talent attraction and retention;

• Document key transferable skills, company culture and emerging labour market demands of participating companies;
• Produce annual report on findings for distribution to immigrant job seekers, employers and community stakeholders; 
• Develop and deliver online training content on regional newcomer recruitment and retention resources available to support employers in immigrant hiring and retention;

• Liaise with agencies partners to connect employers and clients to employment opportunities;
• Through collaboration with other WIL, Access Centre for Regulated Employment and Immploy colleagues, promote inter-team and interpersonal cooperation to strengthen team effectiveness in providing the best possible service and outcomes for employers;
• Ensure that monthly reports on employers, client and team activities, statistics and other benchmarks/measurements are provided to the Immploy Project Manager in a timely manner to meet published deadlines, using the required format;
• Support outreach activities;

• Liaise effectively with community and program partners to achieve project objectives; and

• Maintain accurate records in client and employer database.

• Related post-secondary education;
• A minimum of 3 years of experience as an in person and online trainer for a business audience;
• Proven experience with immigrant employment issues;
• Training in unconscious bias, anti-racism and anti-oppression work;
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate conversations and training on systemic change;
• Ability to write, design, implement, facilitate and/or conduct training delivery of online or face-to-face course material from entry level to advanced;
• Demonstrated experience building strong and long term business relationships;
• Well-developed communication and coaching skills (advocacy, negotiating, networking, report writing and presentations);
• Ability to effectively manage, prioritize and oversee the delivery of multiple requests including analyzing issues, solving problems and making decisions;
• Well developed organization, time management and planning skills;
• Ability to research labour market information and assessment tools;
• Demonstrated ability to understand and uncover employers’ needs to ensure the most effective outcome from immigrant workplace integration development and learning plan goals for individual employers;
• Thorough knowledge and practice of social media techniques for optimal success is an asset;
• Community-minded individual with well developed networking skills including the ability to create, develop/maintain and build relationships with funders, other community groups, and regional/national employers;
• A change oriented mindset with a passion for continuous improvement and commitment to excellence;
• Highly developed understanding of database systems, and proficient with data entry;
• Proficiency in database report writing, queries and exports;
• Expert level proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and  Access);
• Must have access to a vehicle for remote meetings; and
• Vulnerable police check is required.