Director, Cultural Safety

1 month ago

Vancouver, Canada BC College of Oral Health Professionals Full time

**About the Role**

This position will partner with peers and senior leaders to help implement BCCOHP’s initiatives to embed cultural safety and humility within the organization and ensure BCCOHP meets its legal and ethical obligations to address Indigenous-specific racism in the delivery of oral health care. This role will develop and lead strategies for Indigenous anti-racism and cultural safety and ensure these principles are woven into BCCOHP policies, practices, regulatory functions and are reflected in BCCOHP staff, board and committees.

The Director, Cultural Safety and Humility will help build and foster relationships with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, Elders, organizations, and communities to collaborate on BCCOHP projects and initiatives. The position will develop, support and work with an Indigenous Advisory Circle, engaging the group for advice, feedback, and direction on initiatives, process, and policy.

This work will require significant engagement with First Nations, Inuit and/or Métis Peoples. Applicants should provide evidence of the capacity, experience and track record of working and engaging with Indigenous communities in a meaningful and culturally safe way.

**Essential Duties**
- **Program development**_
- Oversee the development and delivery of Indigenous Cultural Safety & Humility strategies and plans and facilitate continuous improvement and maintenance of programs (Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility Project).
- **Engagement**_
- Address anti-Indigenous racism and promote cultural safety by engaging and working with Indigenous Peoples.
- **Strategic planning**_
- Taking a systemic approach, lead the planning, alignment, implementation, evaluation, and transformation of organizational strategies, services and programs to advance cultural safety and humility initiatives throughout BCCOHP.
- Partners with leaders across the organization to ensure cross-program development and key initiatives are supported to integrate reconciliation, cultural safety, anti-racism, equity, diversity and inclusion are incorporated into BCCOHP strategic plan, goals and objectives.
- Supports the work and integration across BCCOHP regarding preparation and implementation of the new _Health Professions and Occupations Act_ (HPOA) related to discrimination, cultural safety and humility, etc. to ensure BCCOHP is compliant with the Act.
- **Review of regulatory processes**_
- Identify improvements to regulatory processes to ensure they are culturally safe, trauma aware and inclusive so that members of the public, particularly Indigenous peoples’, feel safe and respected when contacting the regulator and filing complaints.
- **Communication and collaboration**_
- Build and foster trusting relationships with key partners and audiences, including Indigenous communities, people and leaders to collaborate and support BCCOHP cultural safety initiatives. Contribute to Indigenous-specific engagement strategies.
- **Learning strategies**_
- Identify and facilitate anti-racism and decolonial learning opportunities and training for BCCOHP staff, board and committee members to build organizational leadership capacity for integrating cultural safety and humility within BCCOHP and for the oral health professionals it regulates.
- **Workplace culture**_
- Support the development and maintenance of an inclusive and safe workplace culture that recognizes and addresses colonial structures and racism within the organization.
- **Expertise**_
- Bring lived experience, leadership and expertise to support culturally safe and inclusive programs, services and engagement to the communities we serve. Bring an understanding of restorative and trauma-informed approaches to cultural safety and principles of UNDRIP and DRIPA. Support and work with an Indigenous Advisory Circle.
- **Maintenance and reporting**_
- Continue to build out cultural safety and humility throughout the organization through reporting (data reports, activity reports, project updates) and continual monitoring and improvement of cultural safety and humility initiatives.

**Essential Skills and Qualifications**
- A level of education, training, and experience that provides you with the skills and ability to advance systems level change and foster systems thinking to lead change.
- Demonstrated experience implementing anti-racism, CSH, diversity and inclusion, and anti-oppression programs in complex organizations.
- Knowledge and understanding of current and historical Indigenous issues, cultures, practices, Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, Indigenous-specific racism, white supremacy, anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenous worldview is required.
- Knowledge of basic human rights and/or anti-indigenous discrimination.
- Possess effective self-care strategies to manage/prevent vicarious trauma, burnout and/or compassion fatigue.
- Demonstrated experience creating, running and implementing outside the box and innovative workshops

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