Manager, Mystartr Program Delivery - Toronto, Canada - MaRS Discovery District

MaRS Discovery District

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Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Health and dental coverage:

Highly competitive package for individuals and their family members, as well as access to the confidential Employee and Family Assistance Program.

Time off to recharge:

Starting vacation entitlement of three weeks in addition to a week-long holiday office closure and personal days.

Transit accessibility:

Indoor bike parking and showers along with direct access to Queens Park subway station.

Cutting-edge building:

Architecturally-inspiring, amenity-rich building housing some of the world's most progressive minds.

World-class events:

Access to hundreds of annual conferences, lectures and networking showcases.

MaRS Social Committee:

Year-round team-building outings as part of our social, health and wellness program.

About MaRS:

MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others.

In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

About MyStartr:

MyStartr is Canada's only employer-led youth hiring coalition that helps young people who face barriers find meaningful jobs and build skills, experience and confidence.

Our goal is to change the youth employment system in Canada so that it works better for everyone, from young job seekers and the community services organizations who support them, to the businesses who hire and invest in them.

MyStartr is based at MaRS Discovery District, North America's largest urban innovation hub. MaRS' purpose is to help innovators change the world for the benefit of all. We're part of the MaRS system change portfolio focusing on driving better youth futures.

The MaRS community fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration to drive breakthrough discoveries and new solutions to be adopted in Canada and beyond, growing our economy and delivering societal impact at scale.

About the role:

The Manager, MyStartr Program Delivery is responsible for all employer and community service provider relationships. This role will lead all program delivery activities including planning and executing hiring events. This role will also be accountable for achieving youth served and youth hired targets.

Key Responsibilities**:

Directly manage relationships with 30 + employer partners and three community service provider partners (YMCA Vancouver, Regina Work Prep, Toronto Youth Employment Services)
Employers: Meet with employers to understand their hiring needs and also explain how MyStartr works and our expectations from employers
Secure signed Memorandum of Understanding from each new employer. Decide which employers to do hiring events with and for which jobs
Decide dates and number of hiring events per employer
Follow up with employers to get hiring results data
Community Service Providers: Meet with CSPs to understand their capacity and number and types of youth they have.
Share employer hiring needs with CSPs and plan hiring events.
Communicate regularly with CSPs to support them and learn
Plan, run, measure and track all hiring events to help place 150 youth in jobs per quarter meet regularly with and support a three person team of youth coaches
Consolidate all data points (work with senior manager data & analytics, employers and CSP's to gather data) and write up all reporting deliverables to funding partners describing preparation, hiring activities, and results on a quarterly basis
Lead quarterly digital employers symposiums. Create agenda, lead as MC, organize speakers and panels, manage breakout rooms, manage satisfaction survey, overall ensure employers see value and are satisfied
Work with Marketing and Communications team to create content for quarterly employer newsletter with key updates, photos and stories to drive employer engagement and satisfaction
Continuous improvement of processes and partnership model seek efficiencies, innovation and process improvement opportunities

Qualifications:

Undergraduate university degree
Experience working with marginalized youth or talent acquisition and/or hiring placement agency, government or funding reporting writing experience
Project management experience, plus overseeing operational teams and implementing collaboration, team processes and efficiencies, an asset
Program or business leadership and general management skills
Relationship management skills, organizational skills, people leadership, data and insights skills, corporate work experience ideally in a direct HR capacity, Power BI, events, Microsoft Office, Asana

Salary Range:
$74,600 - $85,000, up to 10% discretionary incentive, benefits and paid time-off.

Applications will close at 5pm EDT on April 26, 2023.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in On