Team Lead, Come To Work

Full Time, Contract (2 years)

Edmonton, AB

CNIB invites you to build a career as unique as you! We are currently searching for a Team Lead, Come to Work! Reporting to the Manager, Programs & Operations, the Team Lead, Come to Work will motivate and inspire the Come to Work Alberta team. Specifically, this position will provide guidance to team members on their deliverables, as well as track and support the team’s goals specifically in relation to government reporting. The Team Lead, CTW, will work with the Manager or Provincial Director on special projects.

Your impact at CNIB

• Work collaborative with the Manager, Programs & Operations, on program delivery and evaluation, ensuring the meeting of targeting and deliverables as outlined in required contracts.
• Provide guidance to the Alberta CTW team during team meetings and regular one-on-one check-ins, where you actively listen to team members’ feedback and resolve issues, while keeping the Manager appraised.
• Support the Manager, Programs & Operations in delegating tasks, setting deadlines, and ensuring the team is adhering to service standards.
• Support with reporting on deliverables both internally and externally, creating and pulling reports as required
• Create a team environment where staff and volunteers are motivated and inspired.
• Ensures compliance with CNIB’s policies and procedures.
• Identify training needs.
• Ensure proper tracking and input of data by CTW Team in both Salesforce & Mobius
• Monitor team performance and report on goals

Requirements

Who you are:

• Experience creating reports or contract summaries specifically in regard to government is considered an asset
• Professional attitude, self-starter and adaptable to a dynamic organization.
• Well organized and excellent coordination skills
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills
• Ability to accomplish projects with little supervision.
• Good relationship/ team builder and ability to manage a diverse team
• Passionate champion of diversity, accessibility, and inclusion issues.
• Excellent time management skills
• Proven success in motivating and inspiring teams of staff and volunteers.

We want to hear from you if you have:

• Experience working with Mobius system is considered an asset.
• Experience or proficiency working with Salesforce is considered an asset.
• Post-secondary degree or diploma in a related field.
• 1 – 2 years of supervisory or volunteer management.
• 3 – 5 years’ experience ini job development, career coaching, program development, delivery, and implementation and/or project management within a charity/not-for-profit organization.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and database computer applications
• Personal or professional experience relating to blindness and sight loss is an asset.

Work Environment

• Occasional travel as required.
• Willingness to work flexible hours

Benefits

Apply now!

CNIB is committed to creating and fostering an inclusive culture and welcomes applications from diverse candidates, including but not limited to the Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) community, persons with disabilities, people who are blind or partially sighted, and those who identify as women, gender diverse, and/or 2SLGBTQ+. We strongly encourage applications from applicants with sight loss. Direct lived experience would be a definite asset. If at any stage you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to support your accessibility needs. We're excited to review your application!

Please note: while we invite applications from all interested and qualified applicants, we are unable to follow-up with every applicant.

Closing date: September 20, 2023

About Us

Life is a beautiful, wonderful, complex thing. Life with sight loss should be no different. At CNIB, we're on a mission to change what it means to be blind, and we're not slowing down. We think big, take risks, embrace change, and ask questions. We're inviting you to be part of the conversation.

Our diversity is our strength – we take pride in our inclusive workplace and are committed to recruiting and selecting in a fair, transparent, and accessible way. CNIB welcomes applications from those who have demonstrated a commitment to upholding the values of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) to join us in expanding our capacity for inclusion in the broadest sense. To this end, we strongly encourage applications from members of groups that have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including but not limited to Indigenous peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, people who are blind or partially sighted, and those who identify as women and/or 2SLGBTQ+. We enthusiastically invite applications from applicants with sight loss. Direct lived experience is a definite asset. CNIB is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities and will work with applicants requesting accommodations at any stage of the hiring process.

Our team's health and wellness are a priority, which is why we offer comprehensive benefits, competitive compensation, and flexible work schedules developed to help you stay healthy.

At CNIB, we are relentlessly passionate about what we do. We are in our second century of smashing societal barriers and stigmas through innovative programs and powerful advocacy. We are a collaborative, empowered team that drives achievement and equality. If that sounds like your cup of tea, let's talk.