Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre
Job Posting – Program Manager, Creating Opportunities Strategy
As a valued member of the Saskatoon Food Bank & Learning Centre team, you understand and embrace the unique challenges and opportunies involved in the community sector. Your work is rooted in the principles of community development and focuses on building strength and engagement in our community. You contribute to the strategic goals of SFBLC and work to further the organizaon’s mandate to decrease hunger, increase local food sustainability, and improve the health and wellness in our community. You value life-long learning and the opportunity to further your professional and personal development. You value the role of collaboration and teamwork, both internally and externally, and will contribute to an inclusive environment where all people are treated with respect and dignity.
The Creating Opportunities Strategy is targeted to low-income individuals with mulple barriers to employment. The program is designed to meet each individual where they currently sit on the pre- employment spectrum. There are three streams (pathways) in the Creating Opportunities Program:
Learning Pathway, Experience Pathway, and Transitions Pathway.
The Learning Pathway is designed to provide participants with basic life skills and to strengthen their capacity for change through short-term workshops and sessions. The Workplace Experience Program
Pathway is a 16-week job placement program which runs four sessions annually. It is designed to support participants who require hands-on workplace skills and experience to gain competitive employment.
Transitions Pathway provides coaching and further training to participants of the other two pathways to support their transition to the workplace. The Program Manager is responsible for the overall function, management, and success of these three pathways.
Job title: Creating Opportunities Strategy Program Manager
Responsible to : Program Director
Terms of Employment:
Permanent Full time
37.5 hours/week, Monday to Friday
Job purpose
The Program Manager is responsible for the overall function, management, planning, and successful operation of the Creating Opportunities Strategy Program.
Duties and responsibilities
- Plan, implement, and evaluate the Creating Opportunities Strategy program
- Ensure the Creating Opportunities Strategy program is aligned with the values, mandate, vision, philosophy and overall strategic objectives of SFBLC
- Create and manage the overall Program framework (including the attraction, and recruitment of participants, individual action plans, curriculum, and evaluation methods)
- Supervise Creating Opportunities program staff
- Manage the program budget, including monitoring and approving all budgeted project expenditures, as well as funder reporting and liaising. This includes strategic considerations around resource use and researching new funding sources.
- Collaborate with the Program Director to develop and revise program policies and procedures (for example: intake process, attendance policy, participant binder, etc.)
- Collaborate with other SFBLC program managers and directors to determine how the Creating Opportunities Strategy can support, be supported by, and/or otherwise link with their initiatives
- Develop, maintain, and strengthen working relationships with health and social agencies/ programs in Saskatoon
- Ensure confidential record keeping
- Write reports on the project for the board, senior leadership, funders, and media, as necessary.
- Liaise with funder regarding program issues, concerns, and successes.
Other Duties:
- Contribute to an inclusive environment in which clients, staff, and volunteers are treated with respect.
- As required to contribute to the mission of the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre
Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in Human Services, or equivalent knowledge and experience.
- Minimum 3 years of management experience within the charitable sector, or demonstrated knowledge and experience working in community-based organizations in a management role.
- Commitment to equity, inclusion and the mission and values of SFBLC.
Competencies
Teamwork
- Highly developed leadership and interpersonal skills
- Cross-cultural awareness and understanding
- Thorough understanding of working with marginalized individuals, groups and communities
- Sound analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills impacting customers, staff and community partners.
- Ability to work in a collaborative, emergent and adaptive manner.
Leadership
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation and communications skills.
- Advanced conflict resolution skills
- Strong ability to draw on various leadership styles and approaches to best serve the individual, organization, circumstance, or situation; ability to engage, motivate and inspire staff.
- Ability to lead change management.
- Ability to guide and support individuals and teams through high stress circumstances and to celebrate victories.
- Dedicated to building cohesive, collaborative teams.
- Committed to continuous learning; personal and professional growth for self and others
- Identify and orchestrate professional development opportunities, education and training for staff.
Initiative
- Identifying and dealing with a variety of issues pro-actively and persistently
- Seizing opportunities that arise to strengthen the organization and community.
- Ability to draw upon skills and experience to place "pieces of the puzzle" together to address complex issues and improve opportunities and outcomes
Engagement
- Identifying, building, and maintaining innovative partnerships and initiatives
- Promoting the values, work and mission of the SFBLC in a wide variety of situations and contexts
- Enriching relationships with donors and sponsors, community-based agencies, volunteers, corporate, small business, schools, the faith community and the general public.
Analytical Thinking
- Understanding a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
- Organizing the parts of a problem, situation, etc., in a systematic way
- Making systematic comparisons of different features or aspects
- Setting priorities on a rational basis.
Working conditions
Most work will be done in an office environment.
- Fast-paced, flexible working environment
- An interdisciplinary team with people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Highly collaborative work environment.
Physical requirements
- Work is performed in an office or environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment.
- Repetitive motion which includes substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- Must have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading, etc.
Direct reports
The following positions report to this position:
- Learning Pathway Facilitator
- Workplace Experience Pathway Facilitator
- Transitions Pathway Facilitator
- Intake/Administrative Assistant
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $26.68-$32.96 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- RRSP match
- Vision care
- Wellness program
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
Experience:
- Project management: 3 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person
