Manager, Equity Programs and Initiatives (Designated)

                                                                                                           

 

Competition # : 44616 

Department: Health and Wellness

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG 

Closing Date: 17-Dec-24  (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

Designation Status

This opportunity is designated to applicants that identify as Indigenous Person, African/Black Nova Scotian and other Racialized Persons, Persons with Disabilities, and/or Women in occupations or positions where they are underrepresented.

See the Nova Scotia Government’s Employment Equity Policy for more information, including additional details on the designated groups.
 

About Us

The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians.  Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we’re committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, continuing care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.
 

About Our Opportunity

As the Manager, Equity Programs and Initiatives, you provide expertise in leadership, team building, project management, and stakeholder relations to advance the equity, diversity, and inclusion vision of the department. In addition, you lead the development and administration of the department’s health equity strategies and frameworks using an anti-racism anti-oppression lens, while focusing on social determinants of health and other related outcomes. Furthermore, you develop and lead equity-related project plans, while providing strategic leadership to key activities, reporting progress, managing internal/external project working groups, and building trust and reciprocal relationships with various equity-seeking populations, community groups, and institutions. This position reports to the Director, Strategic Health Partnerships.
 

Primary Accountabilities

 

• Provides project leadership and support to key divisional projects and initiatives such as the delivery of department’s staff equity strategy, staff equity and inclusion plan, the department’s Diversity Committee, and advancing various capacity building initiatives for departmental and health system partners.
• Provides policy leadership and development by creating anti-racism and anti-oppression policies; creating policies related to departmental workforce equity.
• Influences programs and legislation to establish collaborative relationships with a variety of stakeholders (internal staff, institutional stakeholders – community-based groups, advice to departmental leadership executive members to Minister).
• Fosters strategic, respectful, and reciprocal relationships with various community partners and institutional stakeholders, to build and sustain a culture of trust and collective ownership on EDI matters.
• Provides staff training and support to build leadership competency around health equity through the development of training programs.
• Provides leadership contributions to key relevant departmental conversations, research, policy and evaluation initiatives that are aimed at advancing health equity outcomes, perspectives and best practices.
• Monitors budgets and fosters relationships to support equity-focused health system programming.
• Ensures the effective management of human and financial resources by setting and evaluating staff performance targets, promoting diversity and a healthy, respectful workplace, demonstrating the leadership competencies, respecting corporate human resources practices, promoting teamw