Employment Consultant, Chelmsford (Internal/External)

Cambrian College

$85K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum two-year postsecondary diploma or equivalent in a related field.
  • Three years of experience in career and employment guidance and counseling.
  • Experience in delivering employment workshops and facilitating job placements.
  • Ability to analyze and assess client needs and barriers.
  • Valid Ontario Driver's License and reliable transportation required.
  • Effective communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and customer service skills.

Responsibilities

  • Provide case management, employment planning, and job placement to clients.
  • Conduct intake interviews to assess client skills and eligibility.
  • Complete necessary client documentation and service plans.
  • Develop and monitor service plans to overcome employment barriers and set goals.
  • Research and deliver workshops on client needs and skill development.
  • Identify and negotiate career exploration opportunities with employers.
  • Maintain client-tracking systems and ensure documentation accuracy.

Benefits

  • 15 vacation days after one year of continuous service.
  • Comprehensive mandatory benefits including health, dental, and life insurance.
  • Defined benefit CAAT Pension Plan for secure retirement income.
  • Optional health care benefits for additional coverage.
  • Employee perks including education loans, tuition subsidies, and fitness discounts.
Full Job Description
Salary: $41.20 Hourly
Location : 3183 Errington Ave #5, Chelmsford, ON P0M 1L0
Job Type: Full Time Support Staff - Internal/External
Job Number: 26-00556
Division: Office of the President
Department: Employment Options, Chelmsford 3003
Opening Date: 09/04/2026
Closing Date: 9/14/2026 4:00 PM Eastern

Position Summary

Cambrian College's Employment Options - Chelmsford has an immediate requirement for a full-time Employment Consultant. This position's main location is the Chelmsford location but may require travel between Employment Options sites.

Note: Internal candidates, as defined by the Full-Time Support Staff Collective Agreement, will be given firstconsideration.
Duties and Responsibilities

  • Provide information and referral, case management, employment planning and preparation, and job placement to Employment Options clients daily.
  • Conduct intake interviews to determine client eligibility and needs by identifying and documenting clients' skills, interests, abilities, barriers, educational background, and work experience.
  • Complete all appropriate file documentation which may include items such as: application form, service plan agreement, releases of information, and obtain necessary identification.
  • Develop a service plan that clarifies vocational goals, barriers to employment and describes short-term and long-term steps required to overcome barriers and achieve goals. Provide on-going career direction to clients, making appropriate referrals to community services or additional Employment Ontario services as required. Monitor client progress and make appropriate adjustments to the service plan.
  • Research, develop and deliver workshops on topics that address the ongoing needs of clients.
  • Identify and negotiate career exploration opportunities such as job shadowing, voluntarism, job trials, and on-the-job training placements. Negotiate a subsidy reimbursement rate with employers and payment schedule within prescribed program guidelines. Appraise work sites for safety and quality of training.
  • Develop skills training plan in collaboration with training employer and maintain required documentation.
  • Monitor client performance during job search and placement; propose and implement appropriate problem solving, as required.
  • Maintain client-tracking systems, record the activities of individual clients and ensure the timely completion and accuracy of required documentation including contracts, payroll information, and statistics. Conduct 3, 6, and 12-month client follow-up.
  • Liaise with employers, government agencies, a variety of community, social and educational agencies; participate on committees where community planning needs and issues regarding training and employment are being addressed; make presentations to community groups and agencies as required.

Qualifications

Required:
  • Minimum of a two-year postsecondary diploma or equivalent in a related field. (A copy of educational documents must be submitted with application *** education completed outside of Canada, applicants are required to submit a WES or ICAS with their application).
  • Minimum of three years of work experience in career and employment guidance and counselling, along with experience in employment workshop delivery, and job placement.
  • Must have worked in an environment where analysis and assessment of client needs, and barriers was required.
  • Travel is required to employer job sites to monitor clients; therefore, a valid Ontario Driver's License and reliable transportation are essential.
  • Self-directed individual with the ability to balance multiple tasks with frequent interruptions.
  • Effective communication skills, good judgement, and the ability to problem solve.
  • Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft software such as Excel, Word, and Outlook.
  • Commitment to working within a team environment.

Additional Assets/Preferred:
  • Experience working within the college system.

Required Information

To be considered, candidates must provide the following as an attachment:
  • Educational documents
    • WES/ICAS Equivalence if degrees/diplomas are from a Non-Canadian University

Cambrian College offers the following benefits to full-time Support Staff employees:

Vacation Days:
  • 15 Vacation Days (after one year of continuous service)
Mandatory Benefits
  • Basic Life Insurance
  • Accidental Death and Dismemberment
  • Short Term Disability
  • Long Term Disability
  • Extended Health Care
  • Dental Care
  • Vision Care
  • Hearing Care
  • Pension Plan
Optional Health Care Benefits
College employees can purchase the following benefit plans:
  • Supplementary Life Insurance
  • Employee Optional Life Insurance
  • Dependent Life Insurance
  • Spousal Optional Life Insurance
  • Critical Illness
CAAT Pension Plan
Our employee benefit plan package includes a defined benefit pension to help you create a secure future. The CAAT Penion Plan provides you with a predictable lifetime retirement income, survivor benefits, early retirement options, and more without the stress of making investment decisions.

CAAT makes it easy for you to build stable, secure retirement income while you work.

Explore a career choice with a pension at http://www.caatpension.ca/dbprime-pensions-for-talent

Employee Perks
  • Education and Technology Loan Plan
  • Tuition Subsidy Program
  • Higher Education Funding
  • Technology Loan Plan
  • Family Tuition Bursary Program
  • Discounted Access to Fitness Facility/Fitness Classes
We also offer have a variety of employee discounts available at retailers
01

Do you have a minimum of a two-year postsecondary diploma or equivalent?
  • Yes
  • No

02

In what discipline is your diploma or equivalency?
03

Do you have three years of work experience in career and employment guidance and counselling?
  • Yes
  • No

04

Do you have three years of experience in employment workshop delivery?
  • Yes
  • No

05

Do you have three years of experience in job placement?
  • Yes
  • No

06

Do you have experience working in an environment where analysis and assessment of client needs and barriers was required?
  • Yes
  • No

07

Do you have a valid Ontario's Drivers License and reliable transportation?
  • Yes
  • No

08

Please rate you proficiency using Microsoft software such as Excel, Word, and Outlook
  • No experience or exposure
  • Fundamental Awareness
  • Novice
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Expert

09

Do you have experience working within the College System
  • Yes
  • No

Required Question

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