JOB POSTING 2024-114-05

• INTERNAL/EXTERNAL
• Immigrant Youth Services
• Arabic Youth Worker
• Wage: $21.50 per hour
• Part Time: 25 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Temporary to March 31, 2025 (possibility of extension)

Facilitate Community Activities for Newcomer Youth
Join the team at Archway
Come Help Us Help People

Location:  Abbotsford

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Job Summary

The Arabic Youth Worker is responsible for providing support to immigrant and refugee youth. This position meets with youth from a wide variety of backgrounds and provides them with professional support in all situations.  The Arabic Youth Worker plans and facilitates creative activities that connect newcomer and Canadian youth virtually, in-person, in community, and in schools.  This position provides afterschool programs from our office or other locations and works one-on-one with multi-barriered youth.   The Arabic Youth Worker must be able to communicate in both Arabic and English.

Your Role:

Archway’s Arabic Youth Worker with the Immigrant Youth Services Program contributes by:

• Planning and facilitating activities, such as field trips during school breaks, which can be delivered using a variety of methods including online and in-person in assigned schools. 
• Planning and facilitating after school homework support, leadership, and recreation activities that can be delivered in-person and online.
• Connecting with teachers, counselors, and colleagues from different programs at Archway to identify new immigrant youth who may benefit from the program. 
• Preparing and designing creative ways to reach targeted youth in assigned schools and recruiting them for lunch time and after school programs.
• Performing intake and needs assessment on youth who are new to the program.
• Providing one-on-one support, including outreach, case management and wraparound goals for multi-barriered youth.
• Transporting youth to and from programs and transporting multi-barriered youth to needed appointments.
• Recruiting volunteer youth to support immigrant youth. 

This position is a great fit for someone who speaks both Arabic and English, is energetic, identifies with immigrant youth, has great communication and facilitation skills, and understands the barriers facing immigrant youth.

Our Offer

• Wage: $21.50 per hour
• A part-time position at 25 hours per week, availability Mondays to Fridays, from 10:30 AM to 6:00 PM or 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
• Temporary until March 31, 2025 (possibility of extension).

Perks include:

• • Employee and Family Assistance Program that includes online access to wellness resources.
  • Great in-house training opportunities.
  • Rewarding work in a positive environment.
  • Work/Life balance.

Getting an Interview–you will be considered if you have:

• Two years of post secondary education in a youth-related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 2 years’ experience engaging and working with youth from diverse backgrounds.
• Experience delivering program services using a variety of software and technology.
• Ability to read, speak, and write Arabic and English.

The Job Requires you to have:

• Knowledge of youth culture, trends, issues facing youth, and of common barriers immigrant youth face such as culture shock and new behavioural norms and expectations.
• Knowledge of how to support people with English as an additional language.
• Strong cross-cultural skills; ability to communicate effectively across cultures and mindful of differences in culture.
• Good conflict resolution skills; ability to address conflicts and coach youth through conflict.
• Strong relationship building skills; ability to relate and understand a client’s experiences and share personal experiences in a helpful and appropriate manner.
• Good problem-solving skills.
• Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills and attention to detail.
• Good presentation and facilitation skills; ability to organize, prepare, and deliver engaging presentations.
• Strong computer literacy; ability to use Microsoft Office365, virtual meeting platforms, and keep up to date on social media trends.
• Recruitment and marketing skills; ability to effectively promote the program to potential clients.
• Knowledge of the BC school system including general schedule of the year, the high school experience, and school structures.
• Ability to work with clients outdoors during excursions and field trips.
• Ability to drive for program-related work, including the use of a personal vehicle.
• Valid class 5 BC Driver’s license and satisfactory driving record.
• Current Emergency First Aid with CPR/AED level C is a condition of employment.
• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check is a condition of employment.