Post by dk on May 22, 2007 23:34:29 GMT -5
Job Description
Job Title: Summer Indigenous Gurlz Club Facilitator (1 position)
Start Date: June 11th, 2007
End Date: August 25th, 2007
Hours: 30 hours/week
Are you interested in working with Indigenous and racialised girls this summer? Are you creative and think outside the box? Are you a team player? If so, the Summer Indigenous Gurlz Club facilitator is a perfect fit!
Tasks and Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
We invite all applicants but preference will be given to Indigenous women. We ask all applicants to self-identify in the cover letter. Please submit your cover letter and resume (by deadline) June 1st, 2007, 4pm to:
Hiring Committee
Antidote: Multi-racial Girls & Women’s Network
c/o Women’s Studies Department
Room B 111 Clearihue Building
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
E-mail: antidote_victoria@ymca.ca
Find background information on our website at www.anti-dote.org
Job Title: Summer Indigenous Gurlz Club Facilitator (1 position)
Start Date: June 11th, 2007
End Date: August 25th, 2007
Hours: 30 hours/week
Are you interested in working with Indigenous and racialised girls this summer? Are you creative and think outside the box? Are you a team player? If so, the Summer Indigenous Gurlz Club facilitator is a perfect fit!
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Work with the Gurlz club coordinator and the board of directors to create and implement a summer long program that cumulates in a community action project in August to highlight learning and products created over the summer.
- Create a space for participatory, peer to peer learning, and social action on issues that are important to racialised and Indigenous girls in Victoria (10-16 years old)
- Facilitate leadership and presentation training workshops to participants in preparation for public speaking engagements.
- Liaise with Anti-dote Sistah’s network to coordinate summer workshops.
- Organize, plan and find resources to continue the Indigenous Gurlz Club in the fall with Anti-dote Board and Sistahs.
Qualifications:
- Must be 19 years of age or older.
- Must be enrolled in school full-time in the semester prior to Summer Career Placement and planning to return to school full-time in September 2007.
- Education in Child & Youth Care, Social Work, Women’s Studies, Sociology, Education, Recreational Leadership, Physical Education, Fine Arts, Psychology, International/Community Development or related experience.
- Highly interested in and enthusiastic about working with youth.
- Knowledge of issues and barriers faced by visible minority girls and the dynamics of their identity formation.
- Experience facilitating youth group activities
- Experience working with people from diverse cultural communities.
- Ability to interact with various key players such as parents, co-workers, teachers, and social workers.
- Willingness to be challenged, learn new things and adapt to change.
- Computer skills in Word, Excel, and e-mail are an asset.
- Basic First Aid and CPR certification is required.
- A criminal record check is required.
We invite all applicants but preference will be given to Indigenous women. We ask all applicants to self-identify in the cover letter. Please submit your cover letter and resume (by deadline) June 1st, 2007, 4pm to:
Hiring Committee
Antidote: Multi-racial Girls & Women’s Network
c/o Women’s Studies Department
Room B 111 Clearihue Building
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
E-mail: antidote_victoria@ymca.ca
Find background information on our website at www.anti-dote.org