Community Outreach - Ontario

Summary

• Are you a strong relationship builder who relishes the opportunity to leverage community partnerships?
• Are you excited about the prospect of making tutoring accessible for Indigenous youth in Ontario?
• Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children?

If you answered YES, you may be our next Community Outreach Lead for Ontario!

Chapter One is a global education nonprofit that envisions a world where all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive. For more than 30 years, we have worked tirelessly to close the literacy gap in high-need communities by providing children with one-to-one reading support at the time they need it the most. Established as a Canadian charity in 2018, we have grown 50-100% each year, increasing the number of children served by 10X over the last five years. Now serving 2000+ children in eight provinces and territories and counting, we partner with families, schools, and a growing network of sponsor companies and volunteers to deliver high-impact tutoring programs that help children learn to read in their pivotal first years of school. 93% of the students we currently support are Indigenous, living on or near a reserve. We are on track to double the number of students we support over the next two years. That’s where we need your help!As the Community Outreach Lead for Ontario, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a targeted outreach strategy, leading a non-profit effort to help Indigenous families in Ontario access free at-home reading tutoring for their children who are behind in their reading.

Building on the success of our global non-profit’s proven tutoring program, which in Canada currently serves 2000+ children in 23 schools and 50+ communities across 8 provinces and territories, you will help grow our at-home tutoring program across Ontario.Our at-home high-impact tutoring is conducted remotely, 3-5 times per week in five-minute sessions delivered by our trained Early Literacy Interventionists (ELIs) on family members’ smartphones. The program is available for free to Indigenous families, funded through Jordan’s Principle.

Reporting to the CEO, you will help parents and caregivers, education leaders, local Indigenous organizations, as well as health, social, and recreational services agencies become aware of the opportunity. You will personally assist these stakeholders in reaching out to families to sign up their children to help them achieve their grade level reading standards and develop a love for reading.

As the Community Outreach Lead for Ontario, you will play a vital role in advancing reconciliation in Canada by ensuring that Indigenous children have access to the same high-quality education as non-Indigenous children. By helping to close the literacy gap, you will give these children a brighter future and a greater chance of success in school and beyond.This is a remote work-from-home position, however you must be residing in, and have the right to work in Canada.

Key Responsibilities:

• Use personal/professional contacts to share opportunity widely with Ontario education leaders
• Create outreach pipeline, establish contact, set up meetings
• Personally follow-up with community representatives on a daily/weekly/monthly basis as required to ensure follow through
• Achieve monthly outreach goals

Required:

• Currently or previously employed in an education role within Ontario
• Experience pitching programs to school administrative teams
• Undaunted by cold-calling
• Exceptionally strong independent work ethic
• Results-driven approach
• Able to inspire others both verbally and in writing
• Knowledge of the diverse landscape of remote communities across Canada
• Passion for advancing reconciliation in Canada
• Desire to help strengthen a small but growing organization
• Diplomacy in difficult situations and ability to inspire others
• Ability to manage a challenging and varied workload and work under pressure
• Excellent communication skills with internal team members and external stakeholders
• Strong creative and innovative thinking abilities
• Ability to pass an RCMP background check

Ideal candidate:

Interpersonal & Work Ethic

• Collaborative and dependable: friendly, reliable, and thoughtful in teamwork
• Persistent and resourceful: always polite in approach
• Entrepreneurial and intrinsically motivated self-starter: dedicated and hard-working
• Driven by ambitious organisational goals and adaptable to various challenges: thrives on tackling obstacles both in team settings and independently

Experience & Knowledge

• Outstanding persuasive Skills
• Highly organized
• Upholds the highest standards: takes pride in all aspects of work
• Demonstrated success in an outreach role
• Experienced with Indigenous communities: This role requires someone who understands, respects, and has meaningful connections or experiences with Indigenous communities. Previous work with or within these communities will be considered an asset

How to Apply:

• Submit a resume and cover letter highlighting relevant experience and explaining why you are a good fit for this role
• Email application to
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until March 29, 2024

About Chapter One CanadaWe are a Canadian charity dedicated to transforming children’s futures by providing children with one-to-one reading support at the time they need it the most.

We believe that “it all starts with literacy.” Our success is based on the one-to-one connection we make with children from less advantaged homes to help them learn to read in their pivotal first years of school. The combination of technology and personal, human connection between a caring adult and a child is what sets us apart.

• Incorporated as a Canadian non-profit in 2018
• Registered as a Canadian charity in 2019
• Our work is backed by research and evidence-based methods
• Our innovative solutions are cost-effective and scalable: this year we served more than 50,000 students with 1:1 reading support across Canada, the US, and the UK
• We partner with over 30 Canadian corporations and businesses to provide financial support and online reading volunteers to marginalized children in high-need communities from coast to coast to coast

Our Programs:

• High Impact Tutoring: One-to-one high impact tutoring takes place in the classroom or at home via families’ smartphones. Sessions occur 3-5X per week and are 5-minutes long to maximize a young student’s attention span and work with the student at their proximal zone of development.

• Online Reading Volunteers: In the first program of its kind in Canada, we partner with local, national, and global corporations to recruit online volunteers who provide weekly 1:1 30-minute reading support to high-need children in under-resourced classrooms across the country. They use our custom online literacy platform at reading stations that we install in participating schools.

• Original Storybook Series: We co-create original e-books that reflect the culture and first languages of the communities we serve.

Our vision is a world where all children have the literacy skills needed to thrive.

Our values are:

• Literacy: We believe that literacy is a basic human right and a powerful tool for social change.
• Equity: We believe that every child deserves access to quality education and support.
• Innovation: We believe that we can always find new and better ways to achieve our goals.
• Collaboration: We believe that we can accomplish more by working together with diverse partners and stakeholders.
• Excellence: We believe that we can deliver high-quality programs and services by holding ourselves accountable, performing rigorous research, and striving for continuous improvement.

Diversity, Equity, and InclusionChapter One is an advocate for equity and is committed to ensuring its community is diverse and inclusive. We welcome applications from members of racialized minorities, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of various sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities and contribute to our excellence. We seek to maintain our commitment to excellence and recognize that increasing the diversity of our staff and ensuring an inclusive environment supports this objective.

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: $29.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10 per week

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Flexible schedule
• Paid time off
• Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote

Application deadline: 2024-03-29