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***Must be currently an Ontario Work and Child Tax Benefits recipient***


Community Animator

Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre (RIWC) is a charitable organisation with a mandate to serve South Asian and Chinese speaking immigrant women and their families by providing culturally appropriate and linguistically specific settlement support and counselling services with the use of community determined strategies, developed and delivered by immigrant women.

RIWC is seeking a Community Animator who will be responsible for promoting RIWC’s social purpose enterprises within the catchment community. This is a part-time position and RIWC encourages applications from diverse cultural backgrounds, visible minorities and people with disabilities and women.

Responsibilities:
• Create an awareness of RIWC’s anti poverty and community economic development (CED) strategies within the community through various outreach strategies. Outreach will include the development/facilitation of presentations, group sessions/workshops and design/development of promotional materials.
• Create awareness of RIWC’s CED projects to increase enrolment of appropriate program participants.
• Network with major stakeholders and related agencies within the CED community
• Promote knowledge of community resources within the organization, including upcoming events/campaigns, sources of funding and existing programs/services.
• Develop and maintain a database of existing and potential social enterprise development initiatives in the city of Toronto.
• Participate in all agency events to network with program staff and participants
• Participate in program development
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
• Post secondary degree/diploma an asset
• Must be currently an Ontario Work recipient
• Must be Child Tax Benefits recipient
• Knowledge about CED, Sustainable Livelihood frameworks and social enterprise development an asset
• Demonstrated abilities in working with, facilitating, and encouraging participation from a diversity of people and groups, including community leaders, business, government representatives, general public, and ethno-racial minority communities.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and group facilitation skills
• Ability to maintain records and documentation
• Computer literate (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Windows applications)
• Understanding of key anti poverty strategies within the city
• Understanding and knowledge of barriers to access encountered by immigrant women within a feminist and anti-oppression analysis model as well as relevant policy
• Excellent administrative, organizational and analytic skills
• Ability to work both independently and within a team environment

This is a one-year contract position.

• Location: Gerrard and Coxwell
• Compensation: Competitive
• This is a part-time job.
• This is a contract job.
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