Intercultural Facilitator (CF) - Newcomer Settlement Program
Top Benefits
About the role
Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a contract full-time, 40 hours/week, Intercultural Facilitator position located in our Edmonton region. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!
This position is a contract until March 31, 2026 with possibility of extension.
Job Summary:
As a Intercultural Facilitator, responsible for planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating training geared towards promoting intercultural dialogue and increasing intercultural awareness and competences of Agency’s internal and external stakeholders. Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the field of intercultural studies and practice.
- Monitor newcomer trends and needs to develop additional programming and services.
- Work cooperatively to identify the needs of internal and external stakeholders when it comes to intercultural education and training (e.g., tackling racism and different types of discrimination to promote social justice).
- Develop and maintain training curricula, materials, and tools (i.e., handouts, training manuals, and other visual materials).
- Encourage and promote intercultural learning and awareness through coordinating, facilitating, and evaluating relevant training activities in the Agency and in the community.
- Maintain accurate records and statistics related to participation, training feedback and outcomes.
- Stay current and up-to-date with the latest developments in the field of intercultural studies and practice.
- Actively engage in outreach and promotional activities (e.g., ethno-cultural communities and mainstream groups; involvement in appropriate networks, committees, and collaboratives; participation in conferences, etc.).
- Perform other related duties as required.
What This Job Requires:
- Diploma/Degree in Human Services or equivalent.
- 2 years of experience as Training Facilitator/Coordinator or similar role.
- Experience working with newcomers and other vulnerable populations; ethno-cultural communities and faith groups.
- Must have experience working with newcomer men.
- Experience working on social justice projects.
- Additional relevant certifications or designations considered an asset.
- Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
For Police Information Check, including Vulnerable Sector Search, please visit the City of Edmonton's police service website.
For Intervention Record Check, please visit the informalberta.ca
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.
What We Offer:
- The salary for this position is $58,839.84 to $66,231.36 based on qualifications and experience. We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
- Flexible benefit options when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
- Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.
About Catholic Social Services:
You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.
With more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
Our values are at the core of everything we do!
- Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
We embrace diversity and offer equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of origin, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, gender identity, and people of faith or no faith.
About Catholic Social Services
For nearly 60 years, Catholic Social Services has been providing help to the most vulnerable members of our community. Today, we work in three priority areas, serving individuals with disabilities, children and families, and newcomers to Canada.
In 2018 alone, we served more than 20,000 vulnerable Albertan's through 90 programs, in 11 communities across Central Alberta.
A sample of the work we do includes:
- Providing counselling and other intervention services for families in crisis;
- Facilitating kinship and foster care for vulnerable children;
- Supporting adults and youth with disabilities;
- Developing and delivering residential care programs for vulnerable individuals, including youth, those with chronic illness, and those challenged by addictions;
- Providing shelter for women and children escaping family violence;
- Assisting newcomers to Canada with ongoing settlement supports.
Intercultural Facilitator (CF) - Newcomer Settlement Program
Top Benefits
About the role
Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a contract full-time, 40 hours/week, Intercultural Facilitator position located in our Edmonton region. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!
This position is a contract until March 31, 2026 with possibility of extension.
Job Summary:
As a Intercultural Facilitator, responsible for planning, designing, facilitating, and evaluating training geared towards promoting intercultural dialogue and increasing intercultural awareness and competences of Agency’s internal and external stakeholders. Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the field of intercultural studies and practice.
- Monitor newcomer trends and needs to develop additional programming and services.
- Work cooperatively to identify the needs of internal and external stakeholders when it comes to intercultural education and training (e.g., tackling racism and different types of discrimination to promote social justice).
- Develop and maintain training curricula, materials, and tools (i.e., handouts, training manuals, and other visual materials).
- Encourage and promote intercultural learning and awareness through coordinating, facilitating, and evaluating relevant training activities in the Agency and in the community.
- Maintain accurate records and statistics related to participation, training feedback and outcomes.
- Stay current and up-to-date with the latest developments in the field of intercultural studies and practice.
- Actively engage in outreach and promotional activities (e.g., ethno-cultural communities and mainstream groups; involvement in appropriate networks, committees, and collaboratives; participation in conferences, etc.).
- Perform other related duties as required.
What This Job Requires:
- Diploma/Degree in Human Services or equivalent.
- 2 years of experience as Training Facilitator/Coordinator or similar role.
- Experience working with newcomers and other vulnerable populations; ethno-cultural communities and faith groups.
- Must have experience working with newcomer men.
- Experience working on social justice projects.
- Additional relevant certifications or designations considered an asset.
- Equivalent combinations of education and experience may be considered.
- Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, and Intervention Record Check current within six (6) months
For Police Information Check, including Vulnerable Sector Search, please visit the City of Edmonton's police service website.
For Intervention Record Check, please visit the informalberta.ca
Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search, Intervention Record Check and/ or summary of driving record are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.
What We Offer:
- The salary for this position is $58,839.84 to $66,231.36 based on qualifications and experience. We offer flexibility and supportive working environment.
- Flexible benefit options when eligible.
- Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
- Growth Opportunities: apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.
About Catholic Social Services:
You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.
With more than 60 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1900 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.
Our values are at the core of everything we do!
- Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
- Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
- Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
We embrace diversity and offer equal opportunities to all qualified applicants regardless of origin, culture, ethnicity, age, ability, gender identity, and people of faith or no faith.
About Catholic Social Services
For nearly 60 years, Catholic Social Services has been providing help to the most vulnerable members of our community. Today, we work in three priority areas, serving individuals with disabilities, children and families, and newcomers to Canada.
In 2018 alone, we served more than 20,000 vulnerable Albertan's through 90 programs, in 11 communities across Central Alberta.
A sample of the work we do includes:
- Providing counselling and other intervention services for families in crisis;
- Facilitating kinship and foster care for vulnerable children;
- Supporting adults and youth with disabilities;
- Developing and delivering residential care programs for vulnerable individuals, including youth, those with chronic illness, and those challenged by addictions;
- Providing shelter for women and children escaping family violence;
- Assisting newcomers to Canada with ongoing settlement supports.