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Job Description / Duties

Summary: Works collaboratively with the Program Manager to develop existing and new community connect programs. Supervises and provides support and leadership to Community Facilitator employees and volunteers. The Community Connect Coordinator is responsible for coordinating programming to connect marginalized community members with one another, with social networks and with community resources. The primary mandate of this role is to assist in reducing homelessness by providing support and resources to clients which may assist them in obtaining and/or maintaining housing.

Qualifications / Required Skills

Job Skills and Abilities
• Provides regular program supervision to advocate for and support Community Facilitators, the promotion of programs, program delivery, the recording of statistics, reporting, debriefing and problem solving as required.
• Fosters teamwork and communication between Community Connect and other CVTS programs to facilitate best practices in program delivery.
• In collaboration with Community Facilitators, initiates, promotes and maintains professional relationships with referring/collaborating agencies including increasing their awareness of connect programs as resources for the community members with whom they work.
• Ability to establish clear boundaries and maintain and understand the limits of confidentiality
• Understanding of the diverse context and experience of participants’ lives.
• Be trauma informed – understanding the prevalence of trauma and violence in the lives of participants.
• Ability to deal with substance misuse and mental health disorders- often overlapping.
• Practices’ a Relational approach recognizing the importance of relationships for participants and establishes trusting and respectful alliance, which is mutual, collaborative and individualized and reviewed regularly.
• Is client centered/led


Education and Experience
• Diploma in related human/social services field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Three years direct client service delivery experience, including one year supervisory or coordination experience preferably in a feminist-based delivery model.
• Experience working in community settings.

Other Requirements:
• Valid Level I First Aid Certificate including CPR
• Food Safe
• Full and valid BC driver's license and a clean Driver’s Abstract
• A clear Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check.
• VAT training is preferred.

Additional Information

General
• Maintains current knowledge of and complies with Comox Valley Transition Society (CVTS) mission, policies, procedures and standards of practice.
• Maintains strict confidentiality of information gained as a result of employment relationship with the agency.
• Abides by the CVTS code of ethics.
• Practices in accordance with a feminist philosophy as defined by CVTS.
• Abides by all applicable legislation and standards set out by funders.
• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative work relationships with CVTS. staff and community partners.
• Participates in professional development and training opportunities.
• Attends required agency and team meetings regularly.

Salary: Grid 14 $33.77-$38.77

Contact Information

Please email the HR advisor at careers@cvts.ca

Employer Profile

CVTS.ca - Founded in 1987 by a group of caring members of our community who were concerned that women in abusive relationships had nowhere to go.
From that time until 1992, CVTS operated as a safe home network, where local families voluntarily took women escaping violence and their children into their own homes.

In 1992, we turned vision into reality when we purchased and opened Lilli House, a large, comfortable home with eleven beds in six bedrooms situated in a quiet residential neighbourhood that provided a safe, confidential space for women fleeing violence and their children. That same year we started the 24-hour Crisis Line and received funding to begin our Stopping The Violence and PEACE (formerly Children Who Witness Abuse) Counselling Programs, which we’ve been offering ever since.


In 1999, CVTS began providing detox services and in 2015, we opened Amethyst House – a twelve bed social detox and supportive recovery home for women overcoming substance use issues, providing yet another level of support for women in our community.

For more than 30 years, CVTS services have grown and continued to fill an important need in the Comox Valley.

We offer Outreach Services for women, children and families who are unsheltered or struggling through poverty; we partner with the RCMP to provide Victim Services to those individuals who are victims of crime; working with the Comox Valley Coalition To End Homelessness, we operate and manage the Connect low barrier shelter; and we offer several supportive and educational groups for girls, men, and grandparents raising grandchildren.