About You
As a Job Developer/Employer Services you bring strong employer-engagement, job-development, and relationship-building skills. You understand Ontario’s landscape and horticulture industry and can identify employers’ workforce needs, develop employment opportunities, and communicate the value of hiring GROW participants.
You are proactive, results-focused, and comfortable building new relationships through outreach, site visits, industry events, and ongoing follow-up. You can manage multiple employer relationships and placement opportunities while maintaining accurate records and working toward defined employment and retention targets.
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
Employer Engagement and Job Development:
- Recruit and engage landscape and horticulture employers across Ontario.
- Build and maintain an active portfolio of employer relationships and employment opportunities.
- Conduct employer outreach through calls, meetings, site visits, industry events, chapter and sector activities, and referrals.
- Assess employers’ workforce needs, hiring requirements, workplace environments, and available positions.
- Promote the benefits of hiring GROW participants, engage and support employers with apprenticeship registration, sponsorship and workforce development, and encourage inclusive, barrier-free recruitment practices.
- Position Landscape Ontario and GROW as trusted workforce-development partners for the industry.
- Maintain regular contact with employers to identify current and future workforce needs.
Employment and Placement Matching:
- Match GROW participants with suitable registered employers based on participant qualifications, employment goals, employer needs, and workplace fit.
- Develop paid employment, work-experience, and Training Placement Agreement opportunities for GROW participants.
- Gather accurate information about job duties, qualifications, schedules, compensation, workplace expectations, and advancement opportunities.
- Work with the Employment & Career Development Coordinator and other program staff to identify suitable candidates.
- Coordinate employer introductions, interviews, hiring activities, and placement documentation.
- Support employers in understanding applicable hiring incentives, wage subsidies, and program requirements.
- Ensure placement opportunities meet GROW and Ministry requirements.
- Conduct employer and workplace monitoring visits when required.
Employer Support and Retention:
- Support employers throughout recruitment, onboarding, placement, and retention.
- Help employers address workplace integration, communication, performance, and retention challenges.
- Provide employer-focused coaching, practical resources, and referrals to relevant Landscape Ontario services.
- Liaise with participant-facing staff when an employment issue requires coordinated support.
- Identify risks early and help develop appropriate strategies to support successful employment outcomes.
- Gather employer feedback to improve participant preparation, training, placement quality, and program delivery.
Employer Initiatives and Industry Outreach:
- Recruit employer participation for hiring events, job fairs, information sessions, workshops, and industry events.
- Recruit employers to participate in GROW’s Employer of Choice (EOC) initiative and support ongoing EOC employer engagement.
- Deliver or support employer-focused training related to recruitment, onboarding, retention, and workforce planning.
- Represent GROW and Landscape Ontario at chapter meetings, sector meetings, trade events, career fairs, and networking activities.
- Develop relationships with industry associations, community partners, Employment Ontario providers, and other workforce-development organizations.
- Share employer and labour-market insights with the GROW team to support recruitment, training, and service planning.
Performance, Records and Reporting:
- Deliver shared employer engagement, placement, employment, and retention targets.
- Maintain accurate employer profiles, job opportunities, site visits, participant matches, placements, and follow-up records.
- Ensure Training Placement Agreements and related documentation are complete, accurate, and submitted on time.
- Monitor progress and provide updates on employer pipelines, participant matches, employment outcomes, risks, and required follow-up.
- Support internal and funder reporting by maintaining complete and reliable program records.
- Contribute to team planning and continuous improvement based on employer and participant outcomes.
Requirements:
- Experience in employer engagement, job development, recruitment, workforce development, business development, or employment services.
- Ability and willingness to travel throughout Ontario for employer visits, industry events, hiring fairs, and other program activities, including occasional overnight stays.
- Strong knowledge of Ontario’s landscape and horticulture industry, including its employers, occupations, workforce needs, and seasonal operations.
- Demonstrated ability to build and maintain employer relationships.
- Experience developing employment opportunities and supporting job matching, placements, or retention.
- Ability to work effectively with employers and participants throughout the employment process.
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple employers, participants, opportunities, and deadlines.
- Experience maintaining accurate records and tracking progress against established targets.
- Proficiency with digital collaboration, database, and program-management tools.
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, solve problems, and collaborate across teams.
- Experience with Employment Ontario, Ministry-funded programs, hiring incentives, wage subsidies, or Training Placement Agreements is an asset.
- A valid Ontario driver’s licence and access to reliable transportation are required.
About this position:
Full-time, fixed-term contract position through June 29, 2027, with the possibility of renewal.
Two positions are available.