Skills Assessor - Victoria, Canada - British Columbia Construction Association

British Columbia Construction Association

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Victoria, Canada

5 days ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Do you have a passion for providing career or skills advice? Are you collaborative, people oriented and construction industry experienced? Then this role could be for you

BCCA-Integrating Newcomers (BCCA-IN) is looking for an organised, people-focused skills assessor to help newcomers approved to immigrate to Canada, successfully transition their skills, education, and experience to the construction industry.

Perhaps you have a HR, recruitment, or job developer background. Or maybe you've worked on the operations, trades, engineering, or project management side of construction-related businesses.

Either way, you feel your practical industry knowledge, employer insights and understanding of the broad range of construction professions, can be leveraged to ensure skilled immigrants find the jobs they deserve.

About us

About the role

As an assessor you will be:

Delivering skills, education and licensing advice via short 'assessment reports' to the employment liaison specialists of the Integrating Newcomers team. The reports will help program participants (our 'clients') focus on the best career, credentials and connections activities they can engage in pre-arrival.
Copresenting with the BCCA-IN program manager at national and international webinars to raise awareness of our Canadawide, prearrival, employment support services.
Researching and collating construction labour market, profession, and licensing trends to help inform the employment advice delivered by the BCCA-IN team.
Codeveloping labour and industry insights to share as content on the BCCA-IN web and social media channels (basic knowledge of video blogging and writing will be an advantage to you but are not mandatory).
Supporting the employment liaison specialist team, as required.

You will be joining a team with multi-industry and immigration experience who have built successful careers in Canada and are committed to providing practical advice to make the process easier for incoming professionals.

Your skills

As an assessor, you will have/bring:

Exposure to construction-related or technical industries either on the tools, operations, or business side.
Experience in HR, recruitment, job development or employment counselling. Or handson experience in hiring, training, and performance managing a constructionrelated team.
Awareness of the key constructionrelated professions incl. engineers, architects, technicians/technologists, project managers, estimators, skilled trades, health and safety, and the strategic business specialities.
Insights into the challenges and opportunities to support newcomers build their careers in Canada in the fastest way possible.
An appetite to research and share nationwide labour market trends.
Direct experience of living and working in more than one province, territory, or country.

Your attitude and approach to work

To excel in our team, you will:

Have a positive, can-do, team-player, and client-focused attitude
Be comfortable working in a fastpaced environment with varying workloads
Have high attention to detail and excellent communications skills
Be Microsoft Office proficient incl. Word, Teams, Outlook
Enjoy working in a downtoearth, multicultural team
And have a positive attitude towards change.

Location

Head office for the BC Construction Association is Victoria, BC with staff and programs operated out of several regional construction association offices across BC and SK.

The BCCA-Integrating Newcomers team currently work remotely, serving clients planning on landing and living in any location across Canada. We have a preference for BC-located job applicants, but we are open to discussing a SK location for this role

Please include a cover letter that highlights why you think you'd be a great fit for this role.
You must be eligible to live and work in Canada e.g. Canadian Permanent Resident.

Terms of employment
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This is a temporary 4 months contract, with an ideal start date in December 2023, until March 31, 2024
**This is a part time role, at 23h/week.