BJO Employment Consultant; -CP

BJO Employment Consultant
-CP) | Contract Hourly | Until March 31, 2026 | 35 hours per week | 219 Dufferin Street, #1C, Toronto, ON | Salary: $30.33 per hour | Final date to receive applications:
December 16, 2025, 11:59 pm

Wood Green is a team of diverse and innovative change makers working together to make a difference in our communities. A United Way Anchor Agency with a proven track record and an entrepreneurial mindset, we continuously seek to develop solutions to critical social needs while striving to become a Centre for Equity.

We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce, representative of the communities we serve. We encourage, and are pleased to consider, applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized persons/persons of colour, women/women identifying, persons with disabilities, 2

SLGBTQIA+ persons, and others who contribute towards promoting innovative ideas and solutions.

The BJO Employment Consultant, Integrated Employment Services, is part of a high-performance team that improves communities, families and individual lives through effective access to employment. Working at a local Integrated Employment Services Centre or other sites in the City of Toronto, we rapidly help high‑need jobseekers obtain quality, sustainable employment. The employment needs in the City of Toronto are intense, and our Employment Consultants bring caring, energy, focus and skill to address these needs in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment.

Wood Green’s Employment Consultants are supported by caring managers, training, tools, procedures, and systems for success. We aim to have the best jobseeker client experience and outcomes available in Canada, and our Employment Consultants are a cornerstone of this success.

The BJO Employment Consultant guides and supports jobseekers to prepare and submit Better Jobs Ontario Applications to apply for funding for education & training in the hopes of finding quality, sustainable employment. They provide a context for jobseekers to believe in themselves and feel empowered to succeed in obtaining employment. Through rapid and intensive engagement with clients in a structured service delivery model, they establish excellent rapport and trust, understand client needs, prepare them for the BJO Application process and work alongside clients throughout the research and application process.

• Build rapport and an emotionally supportive context for each client to feel trusting, engage readily in the job search process, and believe in their own success to obtain employment. Help clients build their motivation and confidence.
• Ensure clients understand the Better Jobs Ontario and Integrated Employment Services approach and the value of services provided, particularly retention support.
• Create equity in all aspects of service delivery, striving for inclusion and equitable outcomes for all jobseekers who come to Wood Green.
• Manage a caseload of BJO applicants, in various stages of the application process. Using excellent time management and efficiency, effective appointment planning, client assignments, and activities, move clients toward skill upgrading and employment with pace and urgency.
• Maintain accountability for monthly individual intakes and application targets.
• Readily participate in training and coaching to support achievement of targets. Use supervisor monitors and feedback as a constructive learning experience.
• Compassionately and effectively administer the Province of Ontario’s Common Assessment Tool and intake clients into the Integrated Employment Services program in preparation for their application for Better Jobs Ontario funding.
• Through a series of primarily in‑person individualized client appointments and group activities, help move the client to employment by following the Integrated Employment Services Guidelines as prepared by WCG as well as Wood Green’s standard operating procedures.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service and skills in the delivery of client activities, particularly: developing an employment action plan, needs assessment and…