Details: 20hrs/week x 17 weeks/intake @ $27/hr (with possibility of continuing)
Apply by email directly to: [email protected]
This position reports to the Youth Media Project Team Leader.
The Comox Valley Art Gallery hosts the Youth Media Project – multiple 17-week programs for community action that provide media, art & employability skills to youth between the ages of 16 and 30. This position provides employability and life-skills support to project participants through: workshops, demonstrations, group dialogues, etc. The individual also works one-on-one with youth to enable progress on an employment action plan and connects youth with a work placement and a range of career and community resources as needed. Where appropriate, the Coordinator connects youth with employment opportunities that fit within the youths’ overall career goals and strategies.
Following the leadership of the Team Leader, the Employability Coordinator is responsible for assisting in creating a safe environment for all participants of the program. Workshops will be given within the culture and framework that is co-created between the YMP Team Leader and the youth participants. The space that is created will proactively build on issues around accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity and engage participants in a personally and socially transformative experience whenever possible.
Workshop Development
- Provides group and individual tutorials to participants related to employability strategies. Some examples of these workshops are not limited to but can include Self-Assessment, Life Mapping, Setting Goals and Conflict Resolution.
- Works one on one with participants to assist them in setting and achieving individual goals.
- This position requires working with youth to develop an action plan that will lead to employment at the end of the program.
Administrative
Supporting the administrative requirements of this position as set by the Project Facilitator. This includes securing contracts for outside work placements.
- Ensuring that each participant is assigned to a work placement. This includes meeting with participants and work placements to ensure suitable assignments, ensuring that each work placement clearly understands the terms of the contract, and ensuring that each work placement signs a contract.
- Assisting with regular administrative reporting tasks, such as overseeing and checking in with participants to ensure they have invoiced and communicated with their work placements effectively.
- Preparing and filing clear records of each Workshop.
- Assisting with the final screening of works produced by participants.
- Assisting with any other tasks as directed by the Project Facilitator. This includes assisting with food preparation, distribution of flyers and ensuring that all work placements have been invited to attend by participants.
The Coordinator will encourage self-sufficiency and collaboration, will assist in creating a safe environment for all participants in the program, and will work to create a space that will proactively build on issues around accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity.
COMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY
580 Duncan Ave. Courtenay, BC. V9N 2M7 T: 250-338-6211
Please email resumes to [email protected]
This project is funded in-part by the Service Canada Skills Link Program
Partners: Wachiay Friendship Centre, Creative Employment Access Society, Sid Williams Theatre
Application DEADLINE: August 14, 2026
Start Date: August 24, 2026
The Comox Valley Art Gallery is an equal opportunity employer and actively engages in diversity, equity and inclusive practises.
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: $27.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Flexible schedule
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Courtenay, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Work Location: In person
