Manager, Cultural Safety and Humility

6 months ago


Vancouver, Canada Coast Foundation Society 1974 Full time

**Status**:Permanent Full-time

**Location**: Head office/Hybrid

**Salary Range**: $80,000 to $90,000

**Hours of work**: Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm

This position will partner with peers and senior leaders to help implement Coast’s initiatives to embed cultural safety and humility within the organization and ensure Coast 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 Coast policies, practices, regulatory functions and are reflected in Coast staff, board and committees.

The Manager, Cultural Safety and Humility will help build and foster relationships with Indigenous Knowledge Keepers, organizations, and communities to collaborate on Coast Mental Health 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.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- 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 the organization.
- 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 the organization’s strategic plan, goals and objectives.
- Supports the work and integration across Coast regarding preparation and implementation of the new Health Professions and Occupations Act (HPOA) related to discrimination, cultural safety and humility, etc. to ensure Coast 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 organizational cultural safety initiatives. Contribute to Indigenous-specific engagement strategies.
- Learning strategies
- Identify and facilitate anti-racism and decolonial learning opportunities and training for Coast staff, board and committee members to build organizational leadership capacity for integrating cultural safety and humility within Coast 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.

**Education/Requirements**:

- 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.
- Ministry of Justice Criminal Records Clearance
- WHMIS Certification
- Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination

**Experience**:

- Demonstrated experience implementing anti-racism, CSH, diversity and inclusion, and anti-oppression programs in complex organizations.
- Regulatory and healthcare experience is an asset.

**Knowledge, Skills, & Attributes**:

- 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, i



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