Job Description

Position

The FoodAbility Specialist will be a part of the development team for a project called “Connecting Food and Beverage Manufacturers across Canada with People that have Disabilities”. This work will support persons with disabilities prepare for, find and maintain employment or become self-employed, thereby increasing their economic participation and independence. Assisting employers, through a range of hands-on supports, to diversify their workplaces and to create inclusive and accessible work environments for employees with disabilities and assist those who support persons with disabilities in employment and employers that hire them by assisting them to increase their disability-related skills and capacities. Also, to support career advancement of persons with disabilities who are employed full-time or part-time to gain greater knowledge, experience and essential skills to advance in their careers or have more job responsibilities.

The FoodAbility Specialist will assist FPSC with the identification and synthesized global best practices in disability inclusion within workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies specifically in the food and beverage sector as well as develop, facilitate and deliver various sessions in relation to the FoodAbility project. This work will include:

• Generate practical evidence-based recommendations resulting from a literature review plus 10-15 semi-structured interviews with global disability and DEI leaders as well as a full report (40-60 pages), Executive summary, presentation deck that can inform both Canadian employers and policymakers in strengthening inclusive employment standards, practices, and public policy for persons with disabilities.

• Development of Unconscious Bias Webinar.

The FoodAbility Specialist will develop a custom webinar design, material development, and facilitation of a 90-min session for up to 25 participants.

• Development of Unconscious Bias e-learning.

The FoodAbility Specialist will develop a custom Unconscious Bias 30-min e-learning module complete with curriculum content and full storyboard.

Requirements

• Solid knowledge and understanding of disability in the workplace
• Post-secondary education, or equivalent work experience
• Excellent writing, analytical, and research skills are essential
• Solid organizational skills, including multitasking, and time-management
• Experience in presentation development skills and facilitation skills for small to large groups
• Ability to understand subject material
• Experience in research and accessing data
• Strong secondary research skills
• Strong primary research skills for targeted interviews
• Experience in competency framework development, NOS development, career profiling and laddering, training curriculum development, training benchmarking
• Strong written and communication skills, ability to create original correspondences and materials
• Strong teamwork skills
• Intermediate experience with outlook, word, excel, and powerpoint.

Assets

• Bilingual (French & English)
• Master’s degree
• Knowledge of labour economics and labour market policies in Canada.
• Experience writing for external audiences.
• Experience in a similar role, all forms of work experience will be considered
• Background or experience in not-for-profit
• Background or experience in project management, communications, marketing, business, human resources or research
• Experience with project management software
• Experience with data visualization
• Experience in graphic design, using the Adobe Suite (PDF editor, InDesign, Photoshop, etc.)
• Experience working with statistics
• Experience in food service, groceries, food processing, food catering or general manufacturing
• Experience with Web Design or other online platforms and tools (Learning Management Systems, WordPress, social media, etc.)

Current Work Environment

FPSC is currently in a hybrid work model where staff are working remotely as well as in the office.

About Food Processing Skills Canada (FPSC)

FPSC is a national and not-for-profit council dedicated to the advancement of Canada’s food and beverage processing industry. FPSC is a recognized leader in LMI, both within and beyond the food and beverage processing sector. LMI is essential for Canadian food and beverage stakeholders in making informed business, workforce, and policy decisions.

FPSC is constantly seeking new and innovative approaches to make LMI more usable and accessible to all stakeholders. Our LMI research informs the other programs and activities that FPSC conduct. That work includes the development of skills and competency tools, training courses & educational tools, funding programs, government funded initiatives, networking events, and much more.

Located in a newly-renovated office space in Ottawa’s East end, our fun and dynamic team works hard to deliver top-notch programming and create exceptional products. Our fast-pace work environment, always has a wide variety of projects and activities on the go, providing ample opportunity to learn and grow in your position.  We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

We thank all applicants for their interest.  Only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.