Canada’s first financial literacy leader, Jane Rooney, is looking for influential people within the public, private and non-profit sectors across the country to serve on the country’s first National Steering Committee on Financial Literacy.
Committee members will provide leadership and promote participation within the sectors they represent, helping to ensure effective co-ordination across sectors in the development and implementation of a successful national strategy for financial literacy.
Committee members will be selected from the public, private and non-profit sectors across Canada, including the financial services industry.
Members’ responsibilities will include the following:
- providing advice and insight on issues related to financial literacy to the financial literacy leader;
- acting as champions by promoting a national strategy to stakeholders and encouraging participation in its development;
- facilitating co-ordination and collaboration to initiate financial literacy programs and activities that align with the national strategy’s goals and priorities, and securing commitments from organizations within their sectors;
- participating actively by implementing projects or activities within their organizations that contribute to the goals of the national strategy; and
- monitoring progress and reporting to the leader on the progress of their respective sectors in moving the national strategy forward.
“By bringing together leaders from so many different sectors within a single committee, our combined efforts will help develop and implement the National Strategy for Financial Literacy,” says Rooney.
Interested individuals need to apply online with the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada by June 16.
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