JOB POSTING #2025-115-01

INTERNAL/EXTERNAL

Immigrant Settlement Program

Supervisor

Wage: $32.00 to $34.00 per hour

Part Time: 24 hours per week, Monday to Friday  

Temporary (May 2025 to end March 2026)

Lead the Team in Providing Services to Immigrants in the Abbotsford area   

Join the team at Archway

Come Help Us Help People

Location:  Abbotsford

On Site

Job Summary:

The Supervisor for the Immigrant Settlement Program (ISP), oversees all staff and services for ISP to help immigrants and refugees adapt to Abbotsford, and to the Fraser Valley.  The Supervisor provides guidance, direction and support to staff.  In addition, the Supervisor works with the team to provide settlement services and to identify gaps in service delivery and prepares reports on findings.  The Supervisor is responsible for providing leadership, supervision, and delegation to the team to ensure program deliverables are met and that the program operates in compliance with established policies and procedures.

Your Role:

Archway’s Supervisor with the Immigrant Settlement Program (ISP) contributes by:

•       Providing a leadership role to the ISP staff in the development and delivery of the Program to clients.

•       Ensuring all contract deliverables are met by the deadline dates.

•       Overseeing program services to ensure services provided align with program objectives.

•       Facilitating communication between systems, services, and clients with language and cultural barriers.

•       Participating in Advisory Committees (IRCC/BCNSP) to represent ISP and the Agency.

•       Attending community-based activities for networking purposes; promoting the program, recruiting clients, and building relationships with community partners.

•       Ensuring outcome-based quarterly and annual reports to track progress on deliverables and timelines.

•       Working closely with staff to identify gaps in service, preparing a report on findings, and discussing with the Associate Director ways to address gaps.

•       Managing and updating the program budget, ensuring appropriate allocation of funds to meet program deliverables and funder requirements.

This position is a great fit for someone who has great supervisory and leadership skills, fosters a supportive team-based culture with open dialogue, has excellent planning and organizing skills to meet deliverables, is able to multi-task and respond to priorities, and has cross-cultural experience and knowledge to recognize the barriers facing immigrants and refugees.   

Our Offer

•       Wage: $32.00 to $34.00 per hour

•       A part-time position at 24 hours per week, availability Mondays to Fridays, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM. 

•       Temporary (May 2025 to end March 2026). 

Benefits include:

o   Three weeks’ pro-rated vacation.

o   Three pro-rated wellness days per year.

o    Pro-rated sick leave days per year.

o   Opportunity to exchange a statutory holiday for a cultural day celebration.

o   A great benefits plan including extended health and dental; you choose your plan.

o   Employee and Family Assistance Program.

o   Access to online wellness resources including newsletters, physical health videos, and wellness events.

o   Free use of Archway’s wellness equipment.

o   Great in-house training opportunities.

o   Business insurance and associated mileage costs for program-related driving is covered by Archway. 

o   Rewarding work in a positive environment.

o   Work/Life balance.

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

•       A Bachelor’s degree or diploma in a Human or Social Services or related field, OR a combination of education, training, and/or experience. 

•       Valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License and a satisfactory driver’s record.

•       Experience with settlement needs and issues experienced by multi-barrier immigrants and refugees.

•       Experience in program coordination.

•       Experience in supervision and leading a team.

•       Experience in networking, building relationships and collaborating with multiple community partners.

•       Experience in managing a budget.

•       Ability to speak an additional language an asset.

The Job Requires you to have:

•       Knowledge of community-based programs and related systems that support newcomers to Canada.

•       Knowledge of settlement needs and issues faced by vulnerable populations, particularly for immigrants and refugees.

•       Strong cross-cultural sensitivity and skills.

•       Budgeting skills; ability to manage a program budge efficiently.

•       Strong organizational and time-management skills; ability to balance and manage competing projects and priorities taking into consideration changing conditions and deadlines.

•       Computer competency skills; ability to use Windows Microsoft Office 365.

•       Demonstrated crisis intervention skills and the ability to de-escalate.

•       Skills in managing performance, providing feedback, coaching, and setting goals.

•       Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.

•       A satisfactory Criminal Records Check is a condition of employment.

Closing date is May 19, 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.