Passport to Employment is a five week program designed to enhance the job search skills of mature workers 55 – 64. 

Some mature workers lack essential skills,health awareness and learning awareness which go beyond job search skills and are barriers to their successfully re-entering the workforce.

A unique program titled Passport Essentials, which is considered part of the Passport to Employment program is being written to assist mature workers with essential skills barriers.

The program has three primary categories: These are:

1. Communication: reading, writing, speaking, listening, numeracy

2. Health: social, emotional, physical

3. Learning: understand learning, how to learn, and learning barriers

We are seeking two individuals with specific skill sets for a ten week period  to

carry out the research, development and implementation of the program”

Research and Development position.

The individual is required to have:

1. Experience working with adults 55 – 64
2. Knowledge of mature worker literature
3. Capacity to write curriculum
4. Level 2 or 3 Choice Theory expertise
5. Capacity to administer Myers Briggs
6. Capacity to analyze data
7. Formal teaching experience
8. Understanding of learning theories
9. Understanding of the role of health in the lives of mature workers

Facilitator position

The individual is required to have

1. Experience teaching adults 55 – 64
2. An understanding of the age and stage of life as it relates to mature workers
3. Capacity to teach curriculum relating to the nine essential skills
4. Capacity to teach computer skills
5. Capacity to teach job search skills
6. Capacity to teach specific learning strategies
7. Capacity to integrate social, emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual health into the Essential Skills program

If interested, please email your resume to mamacisaac@gov.pe.ca.

Resumes will be accepted until Wednesday  January  14, 2009 5pm