Homelessness Project Coordinator

2 months ago

Edmonton, Canada City of Edmonton Full time

**Job Number**:50814**

The Affordable Housing and Homelessness Section works to ensure adequate, safe, and affordable housing options for all Edmontonians and coordinates the City’s response to homelessness. Working with the Homelessness Response and Prevention Team, this position is responsible for coordinating and implementing projects connected to the City’s Homelessness and Housing Service Plan.

**What will you do?**
- Successfully deliver assigned projects, including making operational decisions, managing budgets, and/or timelines within a delegated scope of authority
- Manage politically sensitive and confidential projects and initiatives
- Utilize influence, collaboration, effective communication, and mediation skills for issue resolution and problem-solving
- Coordinate and manage logistics in delivering training to various City departments that work various shifts and at various locations throughout the City
- Develop a training curriculum based on evidence-based best practices on homelessness and trauma-informed care, as well as, awareness of programs and services that improve responses to homelessness
- Work across the corporation to execute projects as it relates to the Homelessness and Housing Services Plan
- Utilize evidence and research to create different curriculum and training modules for varying business areas across the corporation that helps to increase awareness of the root causes of homelessness and evidence-based best practices for responding to the diverse circumstances involving houseless people that City staff may need to respond to in their jobs
- Develop and implement project plans, budgets, and timelines. This includes preparation of Memorandums’ of Understanding, Terms of Reference, governance structures, documents for Executive Sponsors, and close-out documents
- Collaborate with other orders of government, non-profit organizations, community groups and other stakeholders
- Identify and communicate community and sector learning opportunities
- Facilitate meetings, workshops, and consultations to gather input and foster partnerships
- Assist in the collection and analysis of data to inform the performance measurement and evaluation
- Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness, using data and feedback to make informed decisions and improvements
- Perform other duties as required

**Qualifications**:

- A University degree in Social Work, Public Health, Education, or a related field
- A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in a combination of project management working on complex, multi-stakeholder projects in the public sector with a social and policy focus strategic and operational business planning, working with service design or continuous improvement methodologies

**Assets**:

- Experience in homelessness and/or the affordable housing sector
- Coursework/training in partnership brokering; project management; service design, change management, evaluation, facilitation/engagement, training/education, process improvement, and/or leadership training
- Leadership or project management within a public sector environment would be beneficial

**Skills required for success**:

- Strong understanding of the root causes of homelessness, trauma-informed care, and the homelessness system of care
- Knowledge and experience in project management, continuous improvement methodologies
- Understanding of continuous improvement principles, program development, benchmarking, and alignment procedures for project objectives with the department's business plan goals
- Proficient in research methods, data collection, and analysis
- Demonstrates proficiency in project and process management, encompassing the ability to gather, synthesize, and analyze data effectively
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams, across programs, and collaboratively to share resources and information.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Have a proven record in establishing relationships and collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders
- Excellent organization and project management skills
- Empathy, cultural sensitivity, and a commitment to social justice and equity

**Conditions of Employment**:

- Valid Alberta Class 5 driver's license (or provincial equivalent); You will be required to arrange your transportation while on City business
- Applicants may be tested

**Work Environment**:

- This position may be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement with the flexibility to work from both home and the worksite as per the Letter of Understanding between the City of Edmonton and Civic Service Union 52.
- The weekly hours of work for this position are currently under review and may change at a future time. Any changes will be made in accordance with the City of Edmonton/Civic Service Union 52 collective agreement and the incumbent will be notified in advance.

**_ Up to 1 permanent full-time position_**

**Hours of work**: 33.75 hours per wee. Thi

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