The Coordinator of Business Development is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of marketing, administration and executive support for the Director of Business Development.

• Overseeing day-to-day marketing and communication activities for PTP’s social enterprise, with a strong focus on Customer Service Relationships
• Liaising with new and existing clients and customers, as well as assessors
• Supporting the activities of the Director: Business Development in the execution of social enterprise goals
• Preparing presentation, reports and metrics for Business Development initiatives
• Coordinating funding and project proposals
• Managing correspondence and communications on behalf of the Director: Business Development
• Conducting background research and information-gathering as needed.
• Undertaking other tasks as assigned.
• Attending meetings as required.
• Adhering to PTP policies.

Required

• Post-secondary education in one of or a combination of Marketing/Communications and Education
• Strong administrative and organizational skills
• Experienced with MS Office Suite and social media

Advantages

• Experience in adult literacy, Workplace Essential Skills and marketing in the not-for-profit sector are advantages.
• Fully bilingual in English and French would be an advantage.
• Able to work flexible hours and travel if needed.

Contract Terms

• $35,000/year prorated for 21 hours/week
• Four months from May to August 2013

How to apply

If you are interested in the position, please submit your resume with cover letter to:
Pauline Larsen, Executive Coordinator at paulinel@ptp.ca
Posting Date: May 3, 2013
Closing Date: May 13, 2013

2012 was PTP’s 20th year and we celebrated the milestone with our annual general meeting at the Chef’s House. We bid farewell to outgoing board members and welcomed the new, and presented our 2012 annual report. It was the perfect time to catch up with those we don’t get to see that often. As always, the food and service from the students at the Chef’s House were impeccable. Here are some photos from the evening.

New dates for training in the CAMERA system are now available.

This training will prepare you to administer CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment) and use the associated curriculum guidelines (Signposts) and instructional materials (workwrite). Please read through the attached booklet for more information about the CAMERA System.

Training Details

Training will include:

CAMERA Assessor Certification and Workforce Essential Skills training

Length of training:

2.5 days

Dates:

January 16-18, 2013
February 20-22, 2013
March 20-22, 2013

Where:

PTP East Centre
815 Danforth Ave., Toronto, Ontario

Cost:

$1250.00 + HST

Discounts may be applied if organizations would like to send more than one participant

How do you register?

Please complete the attached screening form and return by e-mail to Heather Paterson at heatherp@ptp.ca. A follow up email will be sent to confirm that you have been registered for the training.

Need more information?

For further details feel free to contact Heather Paterson at heatherp@ptp.ca or at 416-510-3266 ext. 23.

Attachments

CAMERA e-booklet
Screening and registration form
CAMERA System training flyer

The presentation, titled “Dynamic Tensions: Balancing our social ideals with building revenue streams”, discussed the ways in which PTP and Saint John Learning Exchange have approached generating revenues to re-invest into social programs.

View the slides in PDF format.

Signposts

Get 15% off Signposts, our Workforce Essential Skills instructional guidelines. Single copies of Signposts are now $41.23. Order 4 or more copies and get 30% off your order.

workwrite

Get 20% off the full set of workwrite series e-copy. Order all 7 e-books in the series and receive 20% off.
The set of e-books is now $190.20 for a limited time.

How to order

To order contact:
Heather Paterson
publications@ptp.ca
416-510-3266

Order form

Download the order form here

We are pleased to offer another round of training in the CAMERA System this October in London, ON. This two-and-a-half day training will prepare you to administer CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment) and use the associated curriculum guidelines (Signposts) and instructional materials (workwrite). Please read through the attached booklet for more information about the CAMERA System.

Training Details

Where?

Nokee Kwe Native Education Centre
104-1069 Wellington Rd. South
London, ON N6E 2H6

Dates?

October 3-5, 2012
Please contact Heather Paterson for more information on CAMERA system training.

Cost?

$935.00 + HST
Discounts provided to organizations sending more than one participant

How do you register?

Please complete the attached screening form, and return by e-mail to Heather Paterson heatherp@ptp.ca or fax to 416-510-2566. A follow up email will be sent to confirm that you have been registered for the training.

Need more information?

For further details feel free to contact Heather Paterson heatherp@ptp.ca or at 416-510-3266 ext. 23.

Attachments

CAMERA -e-booklet
Screening and registration form
October CAMERA Training flyer

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Are you an assessor/practitioner helping adults develop their Essential Skills for employment?

This 3 day training will prepare you to administer CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment) and use the associated curriculum guidelines (Signposts) and instructional materials (workwrite). Please read through the attached booklet for more information about the CAMERA System.

Training Details

Where?

815 Danforth Ave. , Toronto, Ontario

Dates?

February 28-March 1
March 6-8
April 17-19
May 15-17
June 12-14

Cost?

$935.00 + HST

How do you register?

Please complete the attached screening form, and return by e-mail to Heather Paterson heatherp@ptp.ca or fax to 416-510-2566. A follow up email will be sent to confirm that you have been registered for the training.

Need more information?

For further details feel free to contact Heather Paterson heatherp@ptp.ca or at 416-510-3266 ext. 23.

Attachments

CAMERA -e-booklet
Screening and registration form

A very big thank you to our guests, community partners, supporters, clients and staff who came to make the day a huge success!

We worked in teams and came up with different ideas about how to represent the barriers in a drawing. Some groups represented the barriers as rocks falling across our road, another group used a mountain as a barrier, other groups used water to represent flooding and another group used tombstones because they felt “buried” by the barriers, stress and life experiences they’d had.

Then we came up with many different ways we get support to help us get around or through or over these barriers. Supports are represented by a bridge, a boat, a ladder, a detour, balloons and wings on our posters.

After we had everything figured out, we started drawing our ideas. We had to make a rough draft first and then we used flip chart paper and coloured markers to create our posters.

There was a lot of discussion and team work involved and it took us just over a week to complete our projects.

We’d love it if you came in to see what we did! In the meantime, here are photos of the posters. Click on a poster to see a larger version.

— by the Level 2 and 3 Communications Classes, with special thanks to Katherine.

Take flight

New paths

Climb the ladder

Set sail

Spread your wings

Across the bridge

PTP delivers the academic upgrading component of this four year program, assisting students with college preparation. The graduation ceremony featured students who completed academic upgrading, including the Valedictorian, Laura Hammond. It was a moving ceremony that brought many in the audience to tears. Barbara McFater, Claudia Abello and Lynn Manwar, along with the Acting Chair of Seneca’s Academic Upgrading program, Elise Sheridan, were in attendance for this memorable evening.

Elise Sheridan, Acting Chair, Academic Upgrading at Seneca College, Barbara McFater, Executive Director at PTP, Pauline Hockenstein, Director of Homeward Bound and Neighbourhood Services at WoodGreen, and Claudia Abello, Director of Operations at PTP

Lynn Manwar, Academic Upgrading Program Coordinator at PTP, and Pauline Hockenstein

The full list can be viewed at http://www.nald.ca/extresources.

We previously announced the availability of the workwrite series from Amazon.ca. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of workwrite in PDF format. You can purchase these e-copies directly from PTP. More information about workwrite and purchasing options are available at the workwrite page.

New to workwrite? You can read more at the workwrite page, and see all of our publications on the Publications page.

Barbara McFater, PTP’s Executive Director, was recently honoured with a Senecans of Distinction Award. This award recognizes the exemplary partnership PTP has developed with Seneca College to deliver Academic Upgrading at PTP’s Danforth location. Now in its fifth year, the Program has exceeded expectations: the number of students served and the number going on to college have been far higher than projected.

Barbara attributes the success to PTP’s fabulous instructors and strong partnership relationships. She thanks Leolyn Hendricks and Elise Sheridan of Seneca College for their strong and enthusiastic support of this partnership between a community-based program and a college and thanks as well WoodGreen’s Homeward Bound program for the role they’ve played in our shared success.

Claudia Abello, Director of Operations at PTP, with Barbara McFater, Executive Director at PTP

Bill Hogarth, Chair, Board of Governors at Seneca College, Barbara McFater, and David Agnew, President of Seneca College

Leolyn Hendricks, Chair, Faculty of Workforce Skills Development at Seneca College, Barbara McFater, and Elise Sheridan, Acting Chair, Academic Upgrading at Seneca College

Stan Talesnick, Dean, Faculty of Workforce Skills Development at Seneca College, with Barbara McFater

New to workwrite? You can read more at the workwrite page, and see all of our publications on the Publications page.

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Are you an assessor/practitioner helping adults and secondary school students develop their Essential Skills for employment?

This two and a half day training will prepare you to administer CAMERA (Communications and Math Employment Readiness Assessment) and use the associated curriculum guidelines (Signposts) and instructional materials (workwrite). Please read through the attached booklet for more information about the CAMERA System.

Training Details

Location: PTP East, 815 Danforth Ave., Toronto ON

Date: Tuesday October 4th to Thursday October 6th

Cost: $935.00 + HST

Registration

Please complete the attached screening form, and return to Heather Paterson via e-mail to heatherp@ptp.ca or fax at 416-510-2566. A follow up email will be sent to confirm that you have been registered for the training.

For further details feel free to contact Heather Paterson at heatherp@ptp.ca or at 416-510-3266 ext. 24.

Attachments

CAMERA Booklet (PDF)
Screening and Registration Form (Microsoft Word document)

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