Description
Summary:
Unionized Position
Full Time
Direct reports: 0
Reporting to: Executive Director
Hourly Rate: $42.27
About Community Action Initiative
We are Community Action Initiative (CAI), a nonprofit transforming mental health and substance use (MHSU) support across B.C. As connectors between grassroots organizations and government, we nurture community-led efforts, aligning local needs with provincial objectives. Through capacity building and trust-based granting, we ensure local wisdom and lived experiences shape MHSU programming. We believe lasting change starts with listening to communities, fostering a more community-centred approach to MHSU support.
Position Summary
Project Manager, Support Recovery will coordinate, manage, and facilitate the implementation, management, and administration of approximately 2 million in grants/bursaries in addition to supporting the development of an Indigenous Capacity Training program. With a focus on health equity, the aim of all CAI projects is to support the community-based sector to build capacity to achieve improved mental health and substance use outcomes in BC. This position reports directly to the CAI Executive Director.
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Lead the application and adjudication process for dissemination of capacity-building grant awards.
- Develop and administer grant program training and capacity-building activities.
- Ongoing communication with grantees, and follow-up to ensure alignment with original grant application.
- Ensure reporting and accountability requirements of grants are met by grantees and troubleshoot any difficulties or issues that arise.
- Coordinate outreach and recruitment efforts (in person and online) to build the community and establish an Advisory Table
- Organize monthly online sessions (e.g., webinars, panel discussions, and workshops), identifying topics and speakers based on training needs identified.
- Support the development of technical materials to enhance learning and practice (e.g., factsheets, manuals, guidance).
- Oversee the development of new aftercare curriculum, created in partnership with communities, and supported by a new Advisory Table.
- Develop and manage project budgets and resources to ensure cost-effectiveness and program accountability.
- Develop project reports, briefing notes, and status updates.
- Support knowledge translation efforts that promote high quality, evidence-based resources to guide and inform community-led approaches.
- Provide regular updates to the Executive Director and external partners.
- Perform other duties as required.
Qualifications and Experience
- A graduate degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Public Health, Public Policy, Public Administration, Social Work, Counselling Psychology).
- 3-5 years of project and/or grant management experience.
- Experience in working directly with Indigenous communities in British Columbia.
- Experience in working with community grants and an understanding of the principles and practices of contract management.
- Experience with communities of practice, online communities, and/or community organizing with proven capacity to have successfully developed such communities.
- Experience organizing and facilitating participatory events such as workshops,
presentations, learning sessions, and webinars. - Knowledge of adult education principles and curriculum designed is considered an asset.
- Excellent project management skills including project planning to ensure the project achieves its goals and objectives, resource and financial management, and being an effective communicator for successful project delivery.
- Knowledge of risk management, along with resourcefulness and innovation to solve problems.
- Strategic and conceptual thinking and analysis, including ability to adapt project delivery to respond to evaluation results, stakeholder input and opportunity.
- Establishing and maintaining effective relationships and partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
- Familiarity with the mental health and substance use service delivery systems and approaches in BC.
- Knowledge of and/or work experience in mental health and substance use.
- Ability to assess and prioritize multiple tasks and demands.
- Sound knowledge of principles of health equity, mental health and wellness, and social determinants of health.
- Plain language writing and editing, and structural editing.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent working knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Direct and/or Indirect Reports
None
Working conditions
- Flexible working schedule – being available in non-core hours relative to assignments
- Travel will be required.
- This is a full-time position (37.5 hours/week).
Additional Details
Application Process:
Please submit your resume along with a cover letter, clearly documenting how you satisfy the requirements outlined in this job posting to [email protected] by 5 p.m. Friday, January 10th 2024. The subject line should mention “Project Manager – Support Recovery”.
We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted to schedule an interview.
Preference will be given to candidates who self-identify as Indigenous in accordance with the organization’s commitment to diversity, equity, and reconciliation.
CAI is committed to our workforce reflecting the diversity of the communities within which we work. As such, we encourage applications from persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, people of all sexual orientations and genders,and others who may contribute to the diversity of our staff. Personal experience with mental illness and or addiction, either through self or a loved one, is an asset.
We are an equity employer and encourage applications from persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people, people of all sexual orientation and genders, and others who may contribute to our further diversification.