System Navigator

4 weeks ago


KitchenerWaterloo, Canada The Resilience Project Full time

**Job Type**: 1 Fulltime positions, 34 hours per week

**Wage Range**: ~ $25.00 per hour

**10-month Contract**: March 2023 - December 2023

**The Resilience Project**: Organization hosting the position is **Adventure For Change and working with Resilience partners**.

As a System Navigator, you will work within the Black and Racialized communities to be a liaison between systems and the community, acting as an advocate and guide. You will acquire skills to assess and prioritize diverse individual or family’s needs and to assist in developing personalized plans and connecting them to resources.

**Resilience Project Partners are looking for someone who is**:

- Outstanding in understanding of systemic racism and the major systems (Child Welfare, Health, Criminal Justice, Education)
- Passionate about navigating systems, creating inclusive opportunities, and connecting people.
- Skilled in collaborating with the systems and teams to achieve the goals of individuals and family’s personalized plans.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build relationships with people, agencies, and systems both current and new
- Conduct Outreach to meet people where they are - in community, in homes
- Develop and facilitate plans co-created with individuals and families
- Assisting with evaluation implementation and data collection
- Work collaboratively within a team environment to build connectedness and participation
- Ability to work some evenings and weekends as required

**Qualifications and Experience**:
**Skills**: StrongInterpersonal skills; strong oral and written communication skills; Community development skills**; **Advocacy skills; Conflict resolution skills/experience; Proven ability to work in a collaborative team environment, as well as independently. A strong understanding of Cultural Responsiveness; Anti-Black racism/Anti-oppressive approach /intersectionality with LGBT2SQ as it relates to navigating systems that affect the Black and Racialized communities.

**Experience**:Lived Experience; Reflect the black communities (Somali, South Sudanese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Caribbean etc.)**;** Experience with community development; Advocacy; and conflict resolution. Experience and understanding of community partnerships, outreach, and systems.

**Languages**: Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Tigrinya, Swahili. Other languages would be an asset.

**Additional Requirements**:

- Police Records Check
- Access to reliable transportation

**Application Process**

**Please submit a resume and a cover letter no later than 5:00 pm on March 1st, 2023.**

**Accommodation**

**Salary**: $25.00 per hour

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 2023-03-01


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