Community Outreach \& Social Engagement Coordinator (COSEC)
MAIN OBJECTIVE: Are you able to see the person within all of us? Do you believe in the right of all persons to continue to grow as human beings, to continue to create, connect and have meaning irrespective? Do you believe in the importance of community and the creation of community connections across the private, public and not for profit sectors? Do you want to champion the development of person and age friendly communities, to enable healthy aging and to bring people together to achieve common social goals?
If you have answered yes to all the above then Mosaic Home Care and Community Resource Center has an exciting opportunity for you.
We are looking for a person to fill the role of Community Outreach and Social Engagement Coordinator to support our non-profit outreach across the GTA and to help support the continuing development of the community interface for our award-winning person-centered model of care. The candidate will need to express the following key attributes:
- A recreational and community-based background and experience in creating, managing, and running events in the community and at our resource centres.
- The candidate will need to lead, organize, and create ideas for a range of community events for both in-person and online Zoom platforms.
- A passion for community and a willingness to spend time doing the necessary groundwork and research required to develop resources and connections.
- The candidate will need to develop strong relationships with other community agencies, non-profit and for-profit entities.
- An understanding of and a commitment to concepts of personhood as an important aspect of human relationships outside of the typical care constructs that are usually defined by the lens of incapacity and other vulnerabilities.
- An ability and a passion for working and communicating with people of all ages, needs, cultures and backgrounds.
- An ethical person with a strong awareness of their own self and a clear understanding of fundamental human rights.
- Well organized and detailed and able to work both on their own and within a team. The candidate will also need to be able to perform, collate and report on basic research conducted and to be responsible at times for initiating their own direction and work.
- Job specific proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as Adobe software, Outlook, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and comfortable using web-based applications.
- An ability and willingness to learn where their skill sets may be lacking is also important.
The role will involve the following key functions:
- Overall responsibility in running fun social Zoom programs with speakers and presenters online, plus face-to-face programs starting off at our resource centre in the coming months and in the community.
- Resource centre responsibilities include developing and running community events, researching community resources and keeping the resource library up to date and comprehensive.
- Mosaic is continuing with our community mapping project, and this would involve outreach and research with respect to this project and to connect with likeminded organizations who are receiving funding for community projects, that would like to collaborate.
- Mosaic hosts several events in the community and the role would involve responsibility for helping to run a number of these events.
- Marketing support and other administrative functions.
- Add our events onto community databases to get our company name in the public domain.
Role Prospects: This is essentially a non-profit and community outreach role and the starting salary will reflect this. The role itself has the potential to develop to one with much higher levels of responsibility within Mosaic Home Care and Community Resource Center.
To review the whole job description go to our website at www.mosaichomecare.com under careers.
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- Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
