Catholic Social Services is currently seeking one (1), contract, full Time, 37.5 hours per week, Intercultural Education Facilitator in EDMONTON to join our team. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community!

Contract until December 31, 2025

Job Summary:

As an Intercultural Education Facilitator, you will help individuals or groups learn about and understand different cultures, promoting cross-cultural communication, providing guidance and support to individuals and organizations seeking to develop their intercultural competence, and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people from different cultural backgrounds to interact effectively and respectfully.

Your focus is on the creation, development, and delivery of high-quality materials and suitable resources designed to support group sessions for clients, staff, and other stakeholders to develop intercultural skills and competencies and make progress toward their goals.

Session topics may include Intercultural Awareness, Parenting in Two Cultures, Take Control of Anger, Parenting Teenagers in Canada, and Men’s and/or Women’s groups. This position includes creating new workshops/training as needed by clients, staff, or the community.

Responsible for the smooth presentation of internal and external workshops in person or online, coordinating the equipment, materials, and locations for both internal and external clients while maintaining records.

Education and Qualifications:

• Degree in education, intercultural studies, or equivalent
• Experience developing and delivering workshops for adults
• Having worked in a multicultural environment previously
• Expertise in both intercultural theory and application
• Knowledge of educational and community resources
• Strong counseling, presentation, and public speaking skills
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks
• Proficient in the use of computers, including online video conferencing platforms (i.e., Microsoft Teams and Zoom), Word, Excel, Outlook
• You offer flexibility as you may be asked to work on Saturday or in the evening depending on the need

A valid driver's license and vehicle are required.

Police Information Check including vulnerable sector search and Intervention Record Check are conditions of employment and the financial responsibility of the candidate.

Fluency in Somali, Swahili, Kinyarwanda and/or French is an asset.

What We Offer:

• Compensation begins at $27.36 per hour, based on qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive benefits package 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 50 years of service delivery, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with more than 1800 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering 130+ programs throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

We welcome and celebrate the diversity of our employees and volunteers who choose to work with our Agency in support of our mission, values, and principles. We employ and serve people of all faiths, or no faith, while respecting all backgrounds and experiences.

“As a Catholic social services agency, we are guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.”

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.

How to Apply:

Please apply online, quoting the competition number 3398, at www.cssalberta.ca

Accepting applications until May 7, 2023.

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.