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Jobs - Contract Opportunity
Action for Healthy Communities (AHC) is a non-profit
community development organization working in Greater
Edmonton. Our programs strengthen the capacity of
individuals to organized and create initiatives that
contribute to improved community health and well-being.
Through community capacity building, leadership
training, and mentorship, we promote community inclusion
as a strategy for increasing citizenship participation
and action. To learn about AHC, visit
www.a4hc.ca.
10 Positions: Community Animators
10 Positions: Community Development Promoters
Terms: August 2009 -
January 2010 (6-10 hrs/month)
Compensation: According to education and
experience
Closing Date: Open until appropriate candidates
are selected
Are you passionate about working with others to create a
neighborhood full of positive change for yourself, your
family, and community?
Do you have skills and experience motivating others in
community projects to improve your neighborhood?
Do you have broad, solid connections to one of Alberta
Avenue, Norwood, Cromdale, Parkdale, McCauley, Spruce
Avenue, Eastwood, Boyle Street, Central McDougall or the
Queen Mary Park neighborhood?
Then, your community needs you and AHC can help you
learn new ways to build stronger communities, expand
your peer network and work better with local
new-immigrant/ visible minority communities.
As a Community Animator (CA) or Community Development
Promoter (CDP) you will help to create a neighborhood
team that will, with the teams of the other 9 CA and
CDP, organize the 2010 AHC Voices From Our Neighborhood
Forum. At the forum your team and community leaders
will:
share with municipal, provincial and federal
decision-makers and representatives of community
development organizations, the success of their ongoing
community building activities within the neighborhoods
share a vision of what residents want to do to improve
their neighborhoods over the next 5 years
help the team to remain, working for a common goal:
building the neighborhood they want.
To Apply - e-mail or submit in person a cover letter and
resume in confidence to:
Recruitment Committee, AHC, #101, 10554 - 110 Street,
Edmonton
preferably by email: actioncf4@shawbiz.ca
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