Employment Placement Support Services jobs

The opportunity

Generation Chosen is hiring a contract Employment Recruitment Specialist to open doors with Toronto-area employers before our first cohort of job-ready refugee youth graduates in March 2027.

Generation Chosen is a Toronto non-profit devoted to interrupting intergenerational cycles of trauma and poverty in the Jane & Finch and Weston communities. Our RE-Anchored Employment (R.A.E.) program trains refugee youth aged 18–29 in workplace readiness and emotional intelligence, supports every part of their lives while they train (meals, transit, therapy, coaching), and connects them directly to employers.

Your job is simple to say and hard to do: bring new employers on board to hire our youth. You open the doors; our Employer Partnerships Coordinator walks the relationships through interviews, visits, and placements. You will be measured on results, not activity.

What you'll do

• Build and work a target list of GTA employers with entry-level and career-track hiring needs — banking, media, tech, retail, hospitality, logistics, government, and beyond
• Cold call and cold email decision-makers: HR leads, talent acquisition, hiring managers, and business owners
• Run outreach on LinkedIn and other platforms — direct messages, posts, and warm introductions
• Bring your own employer relationships to the table and convert them into R.A.E. partners
• Pitch the program's value: trained, job-ready, supported candidates at no cost to the employer, with retention support after hiring
• Secure concrete commitments — interviews for graduates, workplace visits, guest hiring-manager sessions, and standing hiring pipelines
• Hand warm relationships to our Employer Partnerships Coordinator for long-term management
• Log all outreach in our tracker and report your pipeline at the weekly team meeting (virtual)

What you bring

Must-haves

• 3+ years in B2B sales, recruitment, staffing, business development, or employer partnerships
• A track record of opening doors from a cold start — you can show us partnerships or placements you built from nothing
• Self-motivated and results-driven: you work independently, remotely, and don't wait to be told what to do
• Strong written and spoken communication — you sound credible on a cold call and in a LinkedIn message
• Comfort pitching a social-impact value proposition to corporate audiences

Strong assets

• An existing book of employer relationships that carries over with you — this is the single biggest asset you can bring
• Experience in workforce development, newcomer employment services, or non-profit employer engagement
• Knowledge of the GTA labour market and which sectors are hiring
• Lived experience of, or genuine connection to, the communities we serve

Pay: $30.00-$45.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10.0 – 15.0 per week

Work Location: Remote