CCIS (Calgary Catholic Immigration Society) is a nonprofit organization that provides settlement and integration services to all immigrants and refugees in Southern Alberta. Since our inception in 1981, we have been a community leader with solid experience in the design and delivery of comprehensive services for our newest neighbours. We deliver these services through a dynamic multi-cultural, multi-denominational and multi-disciplinary team of professionals who collectively speak over 60 languages.
From airport reception to a first job interview, CCIS’s programs and services have been designed to assist immigrants and refugees through all phases of the settlement and integration process. CCIS is committed to welcoming and serving newcomers of all races, ethnic and national origins, cultural backgrounds and religions, sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions.
CCIS – Community Development and Integration Services (CDIS) Division
Our Community Development and Integration Services Division works towards empowering individuals and communities to make changes through education, volunteerism, and community development and integration strategies. CDIS is committed to creating a welcoming community and helping newcomers and the community alike work together to build an inclusive community. CDIS programs support this goal through various community approaches, including volunteerism, education, outreach, community development, and cultural diversity capacity building.
Foothills Community Immigrant Services, a CCIS project, is seeking a Local Immigration Partnership Coordinator. The position is intended to facilitate a collaborative framework with community partners to ensure the development and implementation of successful and sustainable strategies to build welcoming communities, integrate newcomer/immigrant needs, support immigrant recruitment and retention, create active inclusion, and increase the sense of belonging of newcomers.
Functional Statement:
The Foothills Local Immigration Partnership (FLIP) is a collaborative community initiative funded by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs):
LIPs do not deliver services directly to newcomers but facilitate a collaborative framework with community partners to ensure the development and implementation of successful and sustainable strategies to integrate newcomer/immigrant needs, build welcoming communities, support immigrant recruitment and retention, create active inclusion, and increase the sense of belonging of newcomers.
The FLIP coordinator will be based out of our Okotoks and High River offices, and primarily responsible for managing and facilitating objectives of the LIP in the communities within the Foothills region. S/he will work together with the CCIS LIP team lead and the Rocky View LIP coordinator and will be accountable to the Partnership Councils (or their Chair(s)) and a regional coordinator.
Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to submit resumes and cover letters to Ricardo Morales at rmorales@ccisab. ca and Jennifer Mah, Local Immigration Partnership Programs Manager, jmah@ccisab. ca by, May 6th, 2024. Please include “Application to Local Immigration Partnership Coordinator” in the subject line of your email.
NOTE: Resumes will be reviewed as submitted, and interviews scheduled as appropriate. This posting will be removed as soon as a suitable candidate is found, possibly before the published end date.
CCIS thanks all applicants; however, only those selected to compete further for this position will be contacted.
We acknowledge Calgary and area as Treaty 7 territory. We acknowledge the Treaty 7 nations; the Piikani, Siksika, Kainai, Iyarhe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina First Nations. We acknowledge the ancestral territory of Siksikaitsitapi, the Blackfoot Confederacy, and the home of the Métis Nation of Alberta—Region 3. We are all treaty people.
In partnership, we empower immigrants and refugees to successfully settle and integrate in our communities.
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