South Asian ‘Women’s Community Centre[1]
Job opportunity for Youth Community Worker
The South Asian ‘Women’s Community Centre (SAWCC) isdedicated to empowering women of South Asian origin. We are committed to supporting South Asian women and their families who face discrimination on the basis of physical and mental ability, religion, colour, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation and identity, and class. We are guided by the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Canadian and Quebec Charter of Human Rights. We are informed by a feminist ethos and sisterhood, and principles of intersectionality[2] equality, equity[3] and transparency.
Position: Community Worker for the Project South Asian Youth (SAY) at the South Asian Women’’s Community Centre (SAWCC)
This’ is a full-time (30 hrs. /week) position for a 1-year contract (renewable based on availability of funds).
The community worker, an integral part of the Centre’s team, will undertake projects and event-planning that foreground the needs of South Asian Youth and women in the Montreal community, and that create spaces for youth empowerment and community-building.
Job responsibilities:
- Work in collaboration with the Centre’s Coordinator and the Manager with regular reporting on the progress of projects undertaken by SAY.
- Liaise with the Youth Secretary on the Executive Council.
- Outreach and recruit young South Asian women from high schools, CEGEPS, universities and the community to form different youth groups that fulfil the objectives of SAY.
- Contact and re-establish connections with secondary school administrations in the Montreal area as each semester commences.
- Develop projects, activities and workshops for South Asian youth that tackle issues such as violence, racism, mental health, and/or health issues among South Asian youth and women.
- Create, plan, organize and animate the activities that reflect the needs and interests of South Asian youth and women.
- Encourage curiosity, questioning, critical thinking and foster discussion groups among the participating youth.
- Outreach and develop a core group of volunteers and mentors.
- Inform participants, volunteers and mentors about membership in SAWCC and the importance of youth taking their place in SAWCC more generally.
- Prepare and publish the youth activity calendar regularly, Prepare the youth section of the annual report.
- Provide brief reports for publication in the SAWCC Bulletin.
- Prepare and update a youth program budget as a function of allotted funds (to be discussed and agreed upon with the Centre Manager).
- Help the Centre Coordinator to write grant applications for funding pertinent to SAY.
- Participate in day-to-day maintenance and functioning of the Centre; attend Centre team meetings.
- Attend staff meetings, team development, training sessions, Executive Council meetings (on rotation), and represent the Centre at public events/protests in which SAWCC participates.
Requirements:
- Speaks and writes fluent English and French (requirement), South Asian language(s) an asset
- Between the ages of 19 and 30 years old (requirement)
- Knowledge and experience of work in the South Asian community sector (requirement)
- Priority is given to women of South Asian origin
- Believes in and is able to uphold SAWCC ethos of feminism, intersectionality, equality and sisterhood
- Is creative and is comfortable working both independently and in teams
- Experience in youth work is an asset
Work hours: 30 hrs. /week
Position start date: June 2024
Salary: $25 / hour
Deadline to apply: April 26, 2024; before 5:00 p.m.
Please send your CV and a cover letter addressed to Ghazala Munawar: sawcc@sawcc-ccfsa.ca
[1] We acknowledge that we are on unceded Kanien‘kehá: ka (Mohawk) territory.
[2] Intersectionality — the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
[3] Equity — the quality of being fair and impartial; recognition that fairness must be based on the premise that not everyone is completely regarded as equal position because of various factors, and therefore there is a need to ensure recognition of this difference while striving for equality; justice achieved not simply according to the strict letter of the law but in accordance with principles of substantive justice and the unique facts of the case. E.g. pay ‘equity’ which is not simply ‘equal pay for equal work’ but ‘equal pay for work of equal value’. To illustrate this, school teaching and nursing, are areas that have been historically underpaid due to the fact that most workers in these areas were women, and being underpaid had little to do with the amount and quality of work. So salary revision schemes would look at how gendered work has fed into unequal pay and pay equity seeks to ensure fairness when comparing ‘apples’ to ‘oranges’.