Accessible job offer (Project Manager) – AQEIPS

Summer job offer: project manager

Description

We are looking for a project manager to do a situational analysis on the transition between school/adult life/professional life for students with disabilities at the post-secondary level. This offer is available in the context of the Canada Summer Jobs Program. (See the eligibility criteria below.)

About the organization

The Quebec Association of Post-Secondary Students with Disabilities (AQEIPS) is a non-profit organization that was created in 1991 by and for students with disabilities. Its main mission is to promote equal opportunities in post-secondary education and to strengthen the community in its defence of the right to higher education, social inclusion, active life and citizen participation.

Eligility criteria

This job is offered thanks to the Canada Summer Jobs program. Certain selection criteria are required. Here is an exact list. Eligible candidates:

(a) are between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusively) at the start of employment;
(b) were registered as a full-time student in the previous academic year;
(c) intend to return to school on a full-time basis in the next academic year;
(d) are registered in a secondary, post-secondary, CÉGEP (Quebec only), professional or technical program;
(e) are Canadian citizens or permanent residents or have official refugee protection status under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act; and
(f) are legally entitled to work in Canada, according to relevant provincial/territorial legislation and regulations.

Responsabilities

Do a literature review of systems already in place (TÉVA) on other levels.

Request information from stakeholders of the field about the methods to be used to draft a project that respects the standards of the field.

Build ties between the stakeholders of the field at the level of transitions and of the AQEIPS.

Create a draft of the project of creating a framework on the subject of transitions at the post-secondary level.

Education

Have finished or be about to finish a university degree in a closely or remotely related field.

Work Experience

It is an asset to have worked:
• In a place with a fixed schedule.
• In a field related to research.
• In close cooperation with colleagues.

Requirements

• Excellent oral and written proficiencies in English or in French;
• Great thoroughness with scientific work;
• Capacity to adapt to work with colleagues in an open space;
• Meticulous presentation for work with partners;

Additional experiences/skills

• Being involved in a community or student association setting (an asset);
• Knowing laws, equal opportunity measures, policies and other issues related to post-secondary education in Quebec (an asset).

Working conditions

• Full-time position in our Montreal office (office is accessible to persons with reduced mobility);
• Thirty-five hours (35) per week for 6 weeks (possibility of adjusting hours, for example 26 hours per week during 8 weeks);
• Entry into service in May-June 2016;
• Salary: $13 per hour.

When equally qualified, priority will be given to a person with a disability.

To contact us

Send your CV, along with a cover letter, to info@aqeips.qc.ca, to the attention of Jérôme Archambault, president of the Board of Directors, at the latest on May 23 2016. Please specify in your cover letter which position you are applying for.