Position type: 6-month contract (September 2024 to March 31, 2025)
Schedule: Four (4) days per week (flexible days with some weekends and obligatory meetings and events)
Location: Remote Remuneration: $37,000 paid biweekly
Start date: September 20, 2024
Deadline for applications: September 16, 2024
About CESBA
CESBA is a bilingual, provincial, non-profit professional association that represents, advocates for, and supports adult and continuing education (A&CE) program staff working in over 60 school boards across Ontario. We celebrate twenty-five years of incorporation in 2024. Learn more at www.cesba.com.
CESBA currently supports 24 school boards that offer the Personal Support Worker (PSW) certificate training programs across the province. This project will unfold over the next 6 months supporting the needs of PSW students and graduates and long-term care (LTC) homes.
About the project
CESBA is launching a new PSW Engagement Strategy project that is twofold: 1. Increasing awareness and advocacy for a career in the health-care sector with a focus on the career of the PSW through the support of a PSW Engagement Strategy Project Coordinator and six regionally focused PSW Champions; 2. Providing information and promotional resources to school boards, high schools (with a focus on Health and Wellness SHSM programs) and employment agencies to promote PSW training programs, including those through school boards.
About the role
The PSW Engagement Strategy Project Coordinator is an integral part of the project and will work alongside the project team and supervise up to six PSW Champions to bring awareness of a fulfilling career in the health-care sector. You will apply key strategic thinking to support school boards and high schools through outreach, engagement, networking, and connections.
Your primary focus will be to work with the project team and PSW Champions on the development of the engagement and awareness packages providing awareness campaigns and marketing of health care and PSW career opportunities; promoting work in the health-care sector for high school/SHSM students and engaging with external partners (i.e. employment agencies) to increase awareness and promote the sector.
Working with the CESBA PSW Program Lead to advocating for health care and PSW career opportunities to high school/SHSM students, your key priorities will include:
- providing supervision and support to the PSW Engagement Champions for delivery of presentations, networking sessions, career fairs, etc., within their specific locations
- facilitating and providing awareness, advocacy for, and networking campaigns, alongside the regional PSW Champions to school board PSW programs, SHSM (Specialized High Skills Major) programs, career days, employment agencies along with other yet to be identified opportunities;
- supporting the development of project marketing strategies, workshops, presentations, etc., to SHSM health and wellness programs, community job/career fairs and at stakeholder conferences, to support with the success of the PSW Engagement Project
- consulting with Health and Wellness SHSM programs to identify and support with information and resources
- connecting with high school guidance to support students with information to support students with entry into the health care sector and PSW programs
- connecting with SHSM programs to provide marketing and awareness campaigns for promotion of the health care field and PSW careers
- developing, collecting data and conducting evaluations
- supporting the development of an engagement portfolio to present to high schools and potential partner sites (i.e. employment agencies) to increase the awareness of the role of the PSW and careers in health care.
CESBA is offering a compressed, contracted four-day work week position which provides the flexibility to manage your time and energy, combined with meeting the expectations of this initiative. You will be given meaningful work to engage your capabilities. Our organization operates fully remotely with a fair amount of travel throughout Ontario based on the needs of the project to high schools and job/career fairs. Travel expenses are reimbursed by CESBA.
About you
As we look to create innovative and sustainable ways to deliver the PSW Engagement Project, we are looking forward to welcoming an individual who will bring their passion to our vision – to be a key partner to engage high school students to enter the health care field.
To be successful in this role, ideally you are someone who has:
- Project management and development experience to engage and optimize the contributions of a multi-disciplinary team, group, or committee, to execute deliverables;
- Marketing and promotional material development experience to support with the creation of engagement packages;
- A post-secondary achievement preferably with a focus on project management, health care and education, or at least 5 years’ equivalent experience in the health care field with management and long-term care (LTC) experience preferred;
- Educational and/or work-related experience in health care community stakeholder relations;
- Strong knowledge of the PSW education sector through Ontario school boards;
- Strong knowledge of the LTC home sector;
- Ability to recognize opportunities, realities, and limitations, to inform project objectives;
- Expertise in coordinating like-minded professionals to share perspectives and promising practices;
- Experience in creating innovative programming and producing professional development events, both in-person and virtual;
- Expertise in facilitating and presenting to a vast variety and size of audiences;
- A demonstrated passion and ability for envisioning, embracing, and supporting innovation;
- An ease with a remote work environment, and the availability and ability to travel frequently to locations in the province for in-person meetings and capacity-building events (an automobile is required for this position);
- Strategic and critical thinking skills, with stellar verbal and written communication skills;
- An ease with working independently for much of this project;
- Proficiency with digital tools (e.g., MS Office, Teams, Zoom, etc.); and
- French language skills strongly encouraged.
How to apply
We’re looking forward to hearing about your passion for this work. This may take the form of a cover letter and resume, but we’re open to other forms of expression. Tell us why this work matters to you and the impact you believe you can make with the team at CESBA. When you apply, be sure to quote ‘PSW Engagement Strategy Project Coordinator’ in the subject line of your message.
Email your application to: resumes@cesba.com Attention: Selection Committee, no later than September 16, 2024 at 4 p.m. ET.
We appreciate the energy it takes to assemble your application, and with this in mind, we will be thoughtfully reaching out to those individuals who we believe closely meet the essence of and show potential for success in this role.
If you’re among those we select to engage in conversations with us, please don’t hesitate to mention if we can remove any barriers or obstacles to enhance your experience. It’s what the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, expects us to do, but we also believe it’s simply the right thing to do!
