Manager, Women in Red Seal Skilled Trades - Brampton, Canada - Sheridan College

Sheridan College

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Brampton, Canada

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Description

Reporting to the Associate Dean, Magna School for the Skilled Trades, the Manager, Women in Read Seal Skilled Trades is responsible to design and execute a variety of complex functions.

They are responsible for creating awareness and connecting women with opportunities to explore career education, networking, and apprenticeships in the Red Seal skilled trades.

The purpose of the work is to increase the participation and retention rates of women in Red Seal trades in Ontario.

The manager will partner with the trade union Unifor and three colleges that also offer skilled trades and apprenticeship programming, St.

Clair College, Fanshawe College and Durham College.

The role requires resource planning, coordination, execution, enrolment planning, curriculum, data materials and management, and collection of data for government reporting.

The position will be responsible to spend and steward Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) and Unifor funding over three years.

The Manager will serve as the first point of contact for the program and deliver project activities at all four above named colleges, with Sheridan as the lead.

Their objectives are to attract and retain women to careers in Red Seal skilled trades by providing networking, leadership, and mentoring opportunities; provide women in skilled trades apprenticeships with financial, social, and academic supports; and promote and expand project participation with employers and additional Ontario colleges.

The Manager is responsible for advertising training opportunities to women seeking pre-apprenticeship training and apprenticeships in the Red Seal trades and market the project to trades employers; reserving training seats, enrolling and distributing financial supports to 45 women apprentices by project completion; and host quarterly meetings of the Women in Skilled Trades Advisory Committee.

This position is critical to the success of delivering the objectives outlined in the Women in Red Seal Trades ESDC ministry grant and Unifor funding.

The incumbent also oversees the e-learning curriculum specialist as well as the coordinators assigned to this work at each of the four colleges.

What You'll Be Doing

Providing leadership for the development and delivery of the equity, diversity and inclusion curriculum and training plan to be delivered to 50 women apprentices and their community employers, using a human-centred, iterative design process;
Establishing and launching a Women in Skilled Trades Advisory Committee comprised of Unifor and College trade leaders, as well as women apprentices and journey women from industry;
Developing an advertising and marketing plan for attracting women to Red Seal skilled trades; creating, launching and revising advertising and marketing solution(s) in partnership with other college coordinators and Unifor;
Promoting and expanding project to one additional Ontario college; establish a "Women in Trades Network" community of practice peer support network for women apprentices;
Hosting workplace tours for women apprentices and pre-apprentices, and Women in Trades networking events, in person and online for employers, women apprentices and women pre-apprentices;
Hosting community building and leadership retreats for 60 women participants including apprentices, faculty journey women and skilled trades Ontario female leaders;
Performing other related duties, initiatives and activities, as required.

About You

You have the skills and knowledge to work with an increasingly diverse student and staff population as well as a proven commitment to anti-oppression, equity, and inclusion.

Your collaborative spirit is balanced with your ability to take initiative and act independently to advance initiatives.

You are a self-directed natural leader and combined with your keen interpersonal and communication skills, empowers you to build positive and collaborative relationships and create and maintain a positive organizational culture.

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to present to diverse audiences and communities.

You have sound understanding of project management principles and tools and have the ability to multi-task, prioritize, balance and manage multiple complex and competing demands.

You have the ability to positively interact with a wide range of individuals and facilitate conflict resolution.

You are an analytical thinker, detail oriented and have a proven ability to problem solve and respond quickly in high pressure scenarios.

Master's degree in Education, Arts, Social Sciences or Humanities or related field.

5 years of teaching experience, supporting students in the classroom within a post-secondary environment (equivalency to be considered).

Experience using iSpring/Articulate, Hopin, MS Teams, SLATE/D2L, NVivo.

Experience managing staff.

Research skills and the ability to analyze and summarize information using e.g. NVivo or LLMs.

Solid understanding of technology in