Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity

3 days ago

Kitchener, Canada Region of Waterloo Full time

Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Advisor

**Job Number**:2063

**Job Type**: Full-Time
**Temp Contract Length**:
**Location**: 150 Frederick St - Regional Admin Headquarters
**Job Category**: Administration
**Number of Positions**:1
**Department**: Truth and Reconciliation
**Division**: CAO Division
**Hours of Work**: 35
**Union**: Management/Management Support
**Grade**: Management/Management Support Grade 06
**Salary Range**: $89,289.20 - $111,602.40 per year

**About Us**

The Region of Waterloo is a thriving, diverse community committed to fostering opportunities for current and future generations. Home to over 674,000 residents and expected to grow to nearly one million by 2051. Guided by our 2023-2027 Strategic Plan, “Growing with Care,” we focus on equity, inclusion, and sustainability. Our mission is to provide essential services that enhance the quality of life for all residents, while our core values emphasize caring for people and the land we share. Join us and be part of a team dedicated to making a meaningful difference in our community.

Dish with One Spoon Wampum:

- Waterloo Region is part of the Dish with One Spoon wampum, a treaty guiding our commitment to:

- Recognizing our shared humanity and land
- Taking only what we need
- Leaving some for others
- Keeping the dish clean
- This agreement underpins our vision, mission, and core values, and reinforces our dedication to meaningful reconciliation and equity.

**The Role**
- Participates as a key member of the team that leads the Region’s initiative on Reconciliation, decolonization, equity, anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion (REDI) with the community. The team also leads the development of a corporate-wide equity antiracism framework aimed at eliminating systemic racism in the delivery of programs and services to the public, and works towards ensuring everyone has equal access to opportunities and empowerment through an inclusive, decolonized, anti-racist service culture.- Takes a lead role in the development of a sustained process to identify, disrupt, and eliminate systemic barriers, inequities, and racism in regional programs and services by working alongside communities, organizations, and sectors.

**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Provides advice and recommendations to management and staff on issues related to the needs and experiences of Indigenous, African, Caribbean and Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+ as well as other groups that experience systemic barriers, from an anti-racism/anti-oppression framework.
- Engages and supports management and staff in the development and implementation of an ongoing process to identify and address systemic barriers and racism within the services they deliver to the community.
- Supports the REDI team, management, and staff in the collaborative creation, implementation, and evaluation of an equity plan that fosters a community and service culture of equity and inclusion.
- Establishes and maintains strong, collaborative, trust-based relationships with community leaders, groups, and organizations serving Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, and other diverse communities to continue building opportunities to engage and partner.
- Works with the REDI team, management, and staff on strategies to meaningfully engage members of the local community on a broad range of ongoing issues impacting access, equity, eliminating barriers, and creating opportunities.
- Leads and/or supports ways to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives designed to support Reconciliation, anti-racism, equity, and inclusion, using an approach/methodology that is meaningful to both the community and staff.
- Is involved in confidential meetings with HR and senior management related to operational and business re-structuring as well as confidential issues that could result in staff discipline, terminations, or other labour relations impacts or staffing changes. As a trusted liaison with the community, provides information and corporate responses/actions, on issues, changes, and complaints impacting the community and as it relates to the Region’s work and commitment to REDI.
- Collaborates with staff on the review and creation of municipal programs, partnerships, and grant/funding initiatives that would benefit community members and organizations led by Indigenous, African, Caribbean, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, and other equity seeking groups.
- Facilitates monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on strategic and operational equity initiatives including equity initiative funding.
- Works with departmental equity advisors to support an equity/health equity approach within the existing work of regional departments, including understanding how programs are accessed, experienced, and outcomes are achieved for clients, based on disaggregated service trends and feedback from clients and community partners.
- Stays current on how inequality is expressed by Indigenous, Black, racialized communities, and mo

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