Lead, Health Equity and Accessibility

Compensation

• Salary range is CAD $38.88 to $55.89 per hour.

Position overview

Responsibilities

• Initiate and manage projects that strengthen health equity and community engagement capacity, skills, and tools.
• Coordinate regional community initiatives and engagement through idea generation, planning, implementation, integration, and evaluation.
• Develop sustainable engagement and partnership models responsive to community diversity and feedback.
• Oversee targeted interventions and community engagement, including volunteer supervision as required.
• Build partnerships with healthcare providers, professional organizations, nonprofits, researchers, governments, and community groups.
• Develop a multi-level communications strategy with Corporate Communications and partners.
• Contribute to programmes examining factors that affect implementation of community engagement and partnership best practices.
• Develop work plans, initiative documentation, action and decision logs, and structured risk analyses; prepare reports, presentations, and recommendations based on data.
• Support EDI initiative coordination, staff guidance, resource procurement, and external consultant contract monitoring.
• Evaluate innovations, best practices, and frameworks; support other Population and Public Health priorities.
• Collaborate across regions to advance strategies for equity-seeking communities.
• Attend community meetings, support regional health equity initiatives with community health specialist teams, and contribute to evaluation.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in a health-related discipline, including Public Health or Health Administration, or equivalent education, training, and experience.
• Three to five years of recent related experience in public health, program evaluation, program management, and work with equity-seeking populations, including public or population change initiatives.
• Demonstrated commitment to EDI, health equity, social determinants of health, and public and population health.
• Knowledge of change and project management principles and the public health and healthcare systems.
• Project planning and strategic planning skills; broad knowledge of public health policies, procedures, regulations, and legislation.
• Knowledge of other healthcare disciplines and their roles; ability to use a computer and a variety of software applications.
• Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing priorities and deadlines; physical ability to perform the role.

Schedule

• Community meetings may take place in the evenings and on weekends as needed.

Work setting

• The role involves community engagement and attendance at community meetings; specific office or remote-work arrangements are not stated.