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When our employees were asked through a confidential survey to characterize The Career Foundation, they chose these words:
- Caring
- Compassionate
- Family
- Results-oriented
- Innovative
- Professional
- Helpful/Accommodating
We are dedicated to helping our employees achieve their career goals. Many of our current staff members were once our clients! We’re very proud of this because we feel it attests to the dedicated team we have in place.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Career Foundation is committed to diversity and inclusion and aims to create a healthy and rewarding environment for all. We welcome applications from qualified individuals who represent the diversity of the people we proudly serve, including, but not limited to, visible minorities, women, persons with disabilities, Indigenous peoples, and individuals of all genders and sexual orientation.
The Career Foundation, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), is also committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. We will work with candidates requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.
Career Opportunities
Join our team at The Career Foundation! You can view and apply to our current job postings below:
As the Community Outreach Worker, you would be an essential team member responsible for establishing, developing, and maintaining community partnerships within all communities served by our full-suite Employment Centres, as well as outreaching to recruit new, eligible participants into our programming. Your role would also support our job seeker clients in accessing employment services and wraparound support within the communities that we serve to help them achieve their employment goals. You will have individual targets to meet, contributing to the team’s overall goal of achieving successful outcomes for our clients.
Conveniently located in Etobicoke, North York, Downtown Toronto, York, and Scarborough, The Career Foundation’s five (5) full-suite Employment Centres provide job seekers with a full range of services, including exploring career options, improving their résumés, preparing for interviews, arranging employment placements, providing job retention support and much more. Our Employment Centres also offer a range of services to employers, including recruitment support, candidate screening, job matching, hiring fairs, workplace orientation, retention advice, and other services.
As an Employer Services and Retention Specialist, you would be an essential member of our team, establishing and maintaining relationships with employers across multiple sectors. You would assess their workforce development needs, provide job coaching to our job seeker clients, and match them to employment opportunities that you develop through direct connections and the effective relationships you build with employers. You would also support employers in implementing training and onboarding plans, arrange workplace accommodations when required, and offer on-the-job coaching to the job seekers you place in those roles, helping ensure they retain their employment. You will have placement targets to meet, contributing to the team’s overall goals of achieving successful outcomes for our clients
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
Eligible youth participants for The Career Foundation’s national Youth Thrive program include anyone aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, especially those who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
This Program Coordinator opportunity is available with our national Youth Thrive program based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and requires regular travel to Edmonton, Alberta. As the Program Coordinator, you will be a pivotal member of the project team. In this management-level position, you will be responsible for the direct supervision of program staff, ensuring effective team performance and development. You will also be accountable for the program’s budget, ensuring financial resources are managed efficiently and align with program goals. Additionally, you will monitor the program’s key performance indicators (KPIs) and progress towards objectives, preparing detailed written reports for the program’s funder. Your role will also encompass other essential responsibilities to ensure the overall success of the program.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
As an Outreach Worker/Facilitator with our national Youth Thrive program, you would be an important member of the project team. Your responsibilities would include promoting civic engagement and volunteerism among youth and engaging them in the program. You would also work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth participants by providing life and volunteer readiness workshops, as well as individual and group-based coaching to help them understand the expectations and requirements of non-profit workplaces, preparing them for success in their volunteer placements. Additionally, you would be responsible for achieving individual outreach and training targets.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
As a Placement Specialist/Coach with our national Youth Thrive program, you would be an essential member of the team. Some of your responsibilities would include establishing and maintaining relationships with non-profit organizations in multiple sectors and developing meaningful volunteer opportunities for youth. You would also work directly with youth participants to help them understand the expectations and requirements of various non-profit workplaces and what it takes to be successful in their volunteer roles. You would have a caseload of youth and mentors assigned to you, as well as placement targets to achieve.
Conveniently located in Etobicoke, North York, Downtown Toronto, York, and Scarborough, The Career Foundation’s five (5) full-suite Employment Centres provide job seekers with a full range of services, including exploring career options, improving their résumés, preparing for interviews, and much more. Employers that share our commitment to community hiring can also receive a range of services, including direct access to job seekers of diverse backgrounds and skills, support with coordinating and hosting community hiring events to meet our job seeker clients, advice on how to best coach and work with their new hires to help achieve job retention, and more.
The Career Foundation is seeking a results-driven professional to join our team in the position of Area Manager, Employment and Placement Services for our Scarborough Employment Centre. The Area Manager, Employment and Placement Services is responsible for managing the staff complement at our Scarborough Employment Centre and overseeing all aspects of client service delivery and operations to ensure the site meets or exceeds all performance management indicators.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
This position of Placement Specialist/Coach, Indigenous Community Relations, is available with our regional Youth Thrive program based at our Etobicoke location. In this role, you would be responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with Indigenous non-profit organizations in multiple sectors and developing meaningful volunteer opportunities for Indigenous and underserved youth. You would work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth to help them understand the expectations and requirements of Indigenous non-profit organizations and what it takes to be successful in their volunteer roles. You would have an assigned caseload of Indigenous youth and mentors with volunteer placement targets to achieve.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
Eligible youth participants for The Career Foundation’s national Youth Thrive program include anyone aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, especially those who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
This Program Coordinator opportunity is available with our regional Youth Thrive program based at our Etobicoke office. As the Program Coordinator for our regional Youth Thrive program, you would be a pivotal member of the project team. In this management-level position, you would be responsible for the direct supervision of program staff, ensuring effective team performance and development. You would also be accountable for the program’s budget, ensuring financial resources are managed efficiently and align with program goals. Additionally, you would monitor the program’s key performance indicators (KPIs) and progress towards objectives, preparing detailed written reports for the program’s funder. Your role would also encompass other essential responsibilities to ensure the overall success of the program.
Through the Ontario Bridge Training Program (OBTP), The Career Foundation offers sector-specific bridging programs to support highly skilled, internationally trained immigrants in integrating into the Canadian workforce within the fields of HVAC, Network Cabling, and Information Technology. Participants are provided with training and certification to successfully integrate into the job market.
This position of Job Developer on our OBTP team will perform effective job development functions for our OBTP Foundations in HVAC and Foundations in Network Cabling. The core duties of the position include developing relationships with employers in the HVAC and Network Cabling fields to find appropriate job placement opportunities for program participants and ensuring that job retention is achieved. The Job Developer also provides job coaching to program participants, participates in hosting information sessions, and performs other duties as assigned to support the program’s needs.
The Career Foundation’s Disability Employment Services program is dedicated to supporting job seekers accessing the Ontario government’s Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). Our program offers comprehensive services to these job seekers, including job search assistance, job matching and placement, job coaching, retention support, and more. Employers committed to inclusive hiring can also benefit from our tailored services, such as direct access to skilled job seekers with disabilities, assistance in organizing and hosting community hiring events, and guidance on effectively onboarding and coaching new hires to ensure long-term job retention.
As the Team Lead, ODSP Employment Services & Placement Specialist, you will manage a caseload of clients assigned to you while leading the program team, which includes one full-time ODSP Employment Services & Placement Specialist and one part-time Project Assistant. You will oversee the day-to-day operations of the program, ensuring the effective delivery of services to help clients currently accessing the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) secure and sustain meaningful employment for up to 12 months. Additionally, you will lead the team to meet funder-mandated performance targets, drive results, ensure compliance with funder guidelines, and build partnerships with employers and community organizations.
The Career Foundation’s Disability Employment Services program is dedicated to supporting job seekers accessing the Ontario government’s Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). Our program offers comprehensive services to these job seekers, including job search assistance, job matching and placement, job coaching, retention support, and more. Employers committed to inclusive hiring can also benefit from our tailored services, such as direct access to skilled job seekers with disabilities, assistance in organizing and hosting community hiring events, and guidance on effectively onboarding and coaching new hires to ensure long-term job retention.
As the ODSP Employment Services & Placement Specialist, you will play a key role in supporting ODSP clients in securing and maintaining meaningful employment. Your responsibilities will include providing tailored job search assistance, job matching, job development, job carving, coaching, and retention support to your assigned caseload. Additionally, you will build and maintain effective relationships with employers to identify suitable job opportunities for your clients.
As an Employment Services and Placement Specialist, you would be an essential member of our team responsible for providing solution-based employment counselling to an assigned caseload of clients in the areas of job search, job placement, career decision-making, job retention, and other areas to support clients with achieving successful outcomes. You would also be responsible for developing relationships with employers to find suitable employment opportunities for clients in your caseload, among other essential duties, including maintaining accurate records in online data reporting systems.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
This Placement Specialist/Coach position is available with our Ontario-based national program team. As a Placement Specialist/Coach, you would be an essential member of the team. Some of your responsibilities would include establishing and maintaining relationships with non-profit organizations in multiple sectors and developing meaningful volunteer opportunities for youth. You would also work directly with youth participants to help them understand the expectations and requirements of various non-profit workplaces and what it takes to be successful in their volunteer roles. You would have a caseload of youth and mentors assigned to you, as well as placement targets to achieve.
The Career Foundation’s Youth Thrive program operates both regionally and nationally, offering youth a variety of activities such as professional skills workshops, a virtual retreat, and volunteer placements. These opportunities help youth participants gain valuable skills and experiences, engage in important community projects, and promote civic engagement and social inclusion. Our national Youth Thrive program is available to youth aged 16 to 29 living in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, or Nova Scotia, while our regional Youth Thrive program serves eligible youth living in Ontario. Both programs particularly focus on youth who identify as Indigenous or are underserved from equity-deserving groups.
As an Outreach Worker/Facilitator with our regional or national Youth Thrive programs, you would be an important member of the project team. Your responsibilities would include promoting civic engagement and volunteerism among youth and engaging them in the program. You would also work directly with Indigenous and underserved youth participants by providing life and volunteer readiness workshops, as well as individual and group-based coaching to help them understand the expectations and requirements of non-profit workplaces, preparing them for success in their volunteer placements. Additionally, you would be responsible for achieving individual outreach and training targets.