Community Development and Equity Specialist
2 months ago
Community Development and Equity Specialist (Housing Services)
**Job Number**:1843
**Job Type**: Full-Time
**Location**: 99 Regina St S - Public Health & Community Serv
**Job Category**: Health Care and Social Assistance
**Number of Positions**:1
**Department**: Housing Equity
**Division**: Community Services
**Hours of Work**: 35
**Union**: CUPE 1883
**Grade**: CUPE 1883 Grade 015
**Salary Range**: $46.18 - $52.32**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**
- Acts as a resource and provides equity and community development expertise to identify and eliminate systemic barriers, inequities and accessibility issues in relation to housing programs and services, such as access to affordable housing.
- Works with ethno-cultural community organizations to provide system navigation support within housing programs and with related services, and acts as a linkage to bring forward issues impacting communities to support program changes and help ensure the community voice is heard at the Region’s Housing decision making tables.
- Collaborates with staff and community partners to support programs and service delivery that is equity-informed, responsive to current and emerging community needs and employs knowledge transfer for community enablement.
**Duties/Responsibilities**
- Leads or supports projects to eliminate systemic barriers, inequities, and racism in housing program and service delivery. Connects with Community Services and corporate partners as appropriate for expertise, guidance, and alignment with broad initiatives and system frameworks.
- Applies an equity lens and anti-racism approach to program processes and practices to address inequities and systemic barriers to access in housing programs and services.
- As a trusted liaison with the community, provides information about housing policies and programs, and acts as a conduit to bring forward issues from the community to program management and/or department REDI program. Briefs management on issues, and participates in actions, recommendations, and response, including follow up and communication to community groups regarding outcomes, as appropriate.
- 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 in issues related to affordable housing.
- Stays current on how inequality in Housing is expressed by Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQ+, Disabled, and other diverse communities, and monitors local issues, trends, and outcomes over time.
- Works on accountability mechanisms to ensure trends adversely impacting various communities are addressed through collaborative processes that build trust.
- Supports networks and coalitions to engage in community engagement and inter-sector collaboration on housing issues. Develops and leads community engagement strategies and consultation, including sharing knowledge, tools, expertise and experience, to build a thriving community. Obtains commitments from participants and decision-makers through working coalitions such as a community table for housing.
- Develops and facilitates training and orientation to housing staff related to changes in program processes, and in support of departmental or corporate initiatives.
- Periodically leads/facilitates project teams/work groups.
- Prepares/contributes to reports for internal and external audiences, including for the public. Writes information documents, briefs, fact sheets, and articles on housing access and affordability.
- Plans and prioritizes work according to established priorities. Assists management in setting work plan objectives and goals. Regularly meets with management to discuss project progress, update priorities, address key issues and questions, and review work upon completion.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
- Knowledge and skills are norm
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