The Summer Student Placement Specialist (SSPS) will connect students between 15-30 to employers in their community. The target will be to serve 100 students. The SSPS will actively recruit students through existing partners, youth workers, and the local high schools and post- secondary institutions. 

While all students will be provided with a service, special emphasis will be placed on recruiting students with social or employment barriers including literacy and numeracy and students who are members of a visible minority. Success will be defined by placing 70% of the student participants into paid employment or career-related volunteer placements. SSPS staff will survey all employers and student participants for feedback on the experience via a survey through survey monkey.

What you’ll be doing:   

Student Engagement

• Implements the student engagement strategy
• Visits local high schools to promote the program
• Connects with students via social media
• Develops an online registration form for student job seekers to complete.
• Supports students to connect with summer jobs in the community
• Conducts a screening interview to match student’s interests to employer’s needs where applicable

Employer Engagement

• Develops a summer jobs outreach plan with the wider WorkBC team
• Develops a marketing package to present to employers to actively solicit job postings for students
• Meets with employers to present marketing package
• Actively markets our job posting service to employers
• Part of community events to promote services
• Collaborates with the wider team to organize a student hiring fair
• Matches suitable student job seekers to vacant jobs or volunteer opportunities
• Follows up in weeks 1 and 4 of the job with both the employer and students to ensure success in the workplace
• Conducts job search 101, resume and interview workshops for all student job seekers
• Connects with student job seekers while job seeking 

Administration

• Records all client information, contacts and updates in the Summer Student Tracker
• Works with an employer database with key contacts
• Documents all employer contacts

What you’ll need: 

• Candidates will preferably be post-secondary students in a related discipline
• Comfortable in delivering presentations/workshops
• Comfortable cold calling employers
• Strong team player
• Ability to work in a flexible environment and relate well with others
• Must have excellent computer skills.
• A valid clear criminal record check (including working with vulnerable populations) is required.

What we offer:   

We offer our eligible employees the following benefits as part of their total rewards package:   

• Flexible working arrangements for applicable positions    
• Employee Family Assistance Program, a confidential and voluntary support service for employees and their eligible family members    
• A workplace that prioritizes employee health, safety and well-being, including many learning and growth opportunities such as our employee mentorship program and three equity committees that help to support our goals towards achieving meaningful equity and inclusion.    

Pay Rate: $23.76