Language Assessor /Educational Counsellor (CF) - LVA

Catholic Social Services is currently seeking a contract position as a Language Assessor/Educational Counsellor (40 hours per week) in the Language and Vocational Assessment (LVA) program in Edmonton. Providing excellent client-centered care, you are confident, thoughtful, and motivated to achieve success when supporting others in your community. The contract will end on March 31, 2027.

Job application closing date: October 30, 2026.

The Meaningful Work You'll Do:

As a Language Assessor, you possess strong assessment and counselling skills and enjoy working with newcomers to Canada in a culturally diverse environment. You facilitate the integration of newcomers through offering language and vocational assessments, educational counselling, referrals to various educational institutions, follow ups, and information sessions and presentations.

What This Job Requires:

• Diploma/Degree in Human Services/Education (or equivalent)
• Experience teaching ESL is an asset.
• Prior knowledge of the Canadian Language Benchmarks
• Proficient in spoken and written English
• Knowledge of educational and community resources
• Strong counselling, presentation and public speaking skills
• Proficient in the use of computers, including online video conferencing platforms (i.e., Microsoft Teams and Zoom), Word, Excel, Outlook
• You offer flexibility as you may be asked to work on Saturday or in the evening depending on the need
• Vulnerable Sector Check
• Child Intervention Record Check

What We Offer:

• The Annual salary for this position starts at $60,635.52, (based on 40 hours/week) depending on qualifications and experience.
• Comprehensive benefit options when eligible
• Work within a highly collaborative, team-oriented organization, where your ideas are heard, and you can see your impact daily.
• Growth Opportunities: Apply and grow your skills within a dynamic, innovative and expanding Agency that is taking a leadership role in our industry.

About Catholic Social Services:

You will be joining an established Agency that is guided by faith to care for and bring hope to people in need with humility, compassion and respect.

With 65 years of service delivery experience, Catholic Social Services is one of the largest multi-function social services agencies in Canada, with nearly 2000 staff, and hundreds of volunteers delivering over 100 different programs to people in need throughout Central Alberta and Edmonton.

Our values are at the core of everything we do!

• Humility: We acknowledge with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.
• Compassion: We respond to people in need with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without condition.
• Respect: We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honouring their dignity and freedom.
  

We thank all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Catholic Social Services is committed to fostering a diverse and representative workforce. In an effort to enrich our agency and reflect the communities we serve, we welcome applications from qualified individuals of all diverse groups and backgrounds.