WoodGreen Community Services is a non-profit organization that partners with health and
social service agencies in East and West Toronto. WoodGreen works with seniors, adults, youth,
and families to provide safe and affordable housing options, disability support, and a wide
range of physical and mental health services. We also offer newcomer settlement programs,
support for single mothers, childcare, financial services, and pathways to meaningful food distribution from Second Harvest Assistant Volunteer.

Responsibilities

As a Settlement Mentor, you will be supporting newcomers who identify as female by
mentoring and guiding them on their settlement journey. You will:

• Actively listen and provide advice to newcomer women with any settlement and/or
  employment needs they have
• Engage and empower newcomer women by helping them reach their settlement and
  employment goals
• Provide mentees with settlement/employment resources and advice on topics such as but are
  not limited to; social/professional networking, job interview skills, healthy living, education,
  parenting tips, Canadian culture, budgeting, volunteering, and more.

You must be:

• Willing to enroll and remain in the mentoring pool for 6 months
• Commit to 18 hours over 3 months to connect with their mentee (6 hours per month)
• Preference goes to those who are currently employed
• Must be over 18 years old and identify as a female
• Must have leadership skills such as effective communication, networking, collaboration,
• Reliability, team building, effective feedback, empathy, and active listening skills
• Must be able to be comfortable with providing resources and advice in settling in Canada

What You Bring to the Team:

Need to have experience in one of the fields listed below.

• Pharmacy
• Digital content creating
• Early Childhood Education
• Women’s health/gynecologist
• Beauty field/skincare/tattoo
• Personal Support Worker
• Social Worker
• Mental health worker
• Business analyst
• Finance specialist
• Data analyst
• Web design
• Application development
• Project Manager/Project Coordinator
• Laboratory research/microbiology/teaching
• Mid wife
• Project Manager/Project Coordinator
• Artist, archivist, gallery manager, or anyone who is working in social history or related
• Laboratory research/microbiology/teaching

Shift hours:

• 6 hours per month in a total of 3 months and 18 hours

Commitment:

• 3-month minimum commitment
• You may be asked to participate 3 months more with the same or different mentee

Screening Requirements:

• Sterling BackCheck or Vulnerable Sector Screening
• Reference Check
• Interview

Training:

In partnership with the Women’s Economic Council under the IRRC-funded Her Mentor project –
they are collaborating with WoodGreen’s NCIP to provide Settlement Mentors with virtual
training and orientation in workshop topics and resources such as anti-racism, helping mentees
with job search and more.