JOB POSTING #2025-11-02

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants (CPSI)

Employment Specialist (Job Developer)

Wage: $26.52 per hour

Part Time: 13 hours per week, Monday to Friday  

Starting April 1, 2025

Temporary to March 31, 2026 (with the possibility of an extension)

Facilitate Job Placement Opportunities for CPSI Clients Seeking Employment   

Join the team at Archway

Come Help Us Help People

Location:  Abbotsford

On Site and Outreach

Job Summary:

The Employment Specialist (Job Developer) is responsible for providing direct client services to facilitate clients reaching their goal employment or Temporary Aligned Employment (TAE) by exploring job placement opportunities, promoting program participants to employers to generate job leads and secure paid employment, volunteering positions or on the job training, providing job coaching, and matching/connecting clients with potential employers. The incumbent provides both direct client service and outreach to prospective clients, as well as connecting with employers to seek job opportunities for project participants.

Your Role:

Archway’s Employment Specialist (Job Developer) with the Career Paths for Skilled Immigrants Program (CPSI) contributes by:

• Actively approaching employers and industry professionals for practicum and job placement opportunities through cold calling, email/phone, and on-site visits.
• Advocating on behalf of CPSI clients seeking job placements, promoting clients’ skills and experience, and negotiating with prospective employers.
• Conducting job searches and exploring job leads.
• Providing one-on-one support to clients through job coaching, assisting them with job applications, responding to career and job-related inquiries, practicing interview skills, attending interviews, and inspiring and motivating clients through program participation and active job searches.
• Networking with employers to build relationships and generate leads by visiting companies and employment locations, attending job fairs and community events, etc.
• Establishing and maintaining a directory of employers who can provide mentoring, paid/unpaid job practicums, job shadowing, or paid employment positions (work placement opportunities).

This position is a great fit for someone who has great networking and relationship-building skills, is knowledgeable of the job market and employment trends, can take the initiative in building a directory of employers who can provide work placement opportunities and is able to provide guidance and advice on job search and interview skills.   

Our Offer

• Wage:  $26.52 per hour.
• A part-time position at 13 hours per week, availability Mondays to Fridays, from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM. 
• Position starting April 1, 2025.
• Temporary until March 31, 2026 (with the possibility of an extension)

Perks include:

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

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

• Previous work experience as a Job Developer or Career Development Practitioner, in sales or marketing would be an asset.
• Established relationships with local employers, industry professionals, and the community.

The Job Requires you to have:

• Exceptional interpersonal and networking skills.
• Ability to work independently, be proactive and goal oriented.
• Well-developed written, verbal, and active listening skills; able to communicate respectfully and effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Ability to keep up to date on labour market information and employment trends as change occurs.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian workplace cultural norms.
• Knowledge of best practices in employment skills including resume and cover letter writing, networking, and interviewing.
• A satisfactory Criminal Records Check is a condition of employment.

Closing date is March 16, 2025.

No phone calls please. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.

Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

Your resume may also be forwarded to other Programs for their consideration for their job vacancies.  If you do not wish for your application to be shared with other Programs, please send an e-mail to with DO NOT FORWARD TO OTHER PROGRAMS, in the subject line of the e-mail and the job reference number to which you applied, in the body of the e-mail.

Archway's goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. Equity and diversity are essential to excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including Indigenous identity, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age.  

We acknowledge that we gather on the traditional and unceded territory of the Stó:lō people. Stó:lō territory extends from the mouth of the Fraser River to Boston Bar. Locally, this includes the Matsqui First Nation and Sumas First Nation. We give them thanks for sharing their land and resources with us.

We invest in the mental health and wellbeing of our employees.