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Duties and responsibilities:
- Initiate, build and maintain positive long-term relationships with business owners, human resource professionals, union leaders and representatives and hiring managers.
- Anticipate needs of employers and recognize the fundamentals of business success in order to successfully market job seekers to employers ensuring a mutual benefit to both.
- Generate heightened awareness and increase knowledge to targeted individuals, groups and the community at large specifically - about accommodation, job carving, and supported employment concepts.
- Work within a team environment to understand the needs of job seekers, from this develop and implement a plan that will result in successful job matches for employers and Partners in Employment clients.
- Ability to analyze and present detailed descriptions of work environments, which includes physical environment, job duties, internal support systems, and co-worker relations in order to ensure a successful employment match.
- Record, analyze, evaluate and report statistics information as it pertains to business contacts, labour market trends and noted community need.
Qualifications:
- Degree in a relevant area of study (Business, Marketing, Human Services, etc.) and 2 years related experience.
- Strong understanding of business and employer interests.
- Demonstrated ability to think 'outside the box' and to effectively promote new ideas, concepts and strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with and gain the trust and support of people in and from a variety of sectors.
- Understanding of people with disabilities and the employment barriers they face as they enter the work world.
- Valid Class 5 Drivers licence and a reliable vehicle.
The final candidates are required to provide Criminal and Vulnerable Sector Record Checks.