Community Liaison Coordinator

4 months ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Office of Addictions and Mental Health

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Permanent

**Union Status**:Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

**Closing Date**:19-Jun-24 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**Designation Status**:
This opportunity is designated to applicants that identify as Indigenous Person, African/Black Nova Scotian and other Racialized Persons, Person with a Disability, and/or Women in Occupations or Positions where they are Under-represented.

See the Nova Scotia Government’s Employment Equity Policy for more information, including additional details on the designated groups.

**About Us**:
The Office of Addictions and Mental Health (OAMH works closely with the Nova Scotia Health Authority (NSHA), and the Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre (IWK) Mental Health and Addictions programs (MHAP). The goal is to ensure that Nova Scotians receive the right service, at the right place, at the right time by the right care provider. OAMH partners with numerous community-based organizations to fund and support the delivery of important mental health and addiction services. In addition to traditional mental health and addiction support, our work also includes interventions and actions that will help address the social determinants of health, including collaboration with our partners within and across government departments. OAMH is responsible for ensuring harm reduction and anti-stigma approaches are taken in delivering mental health/addiction care in Nova Scotia.

**About Our Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Program Director, OAMH, the Community Liaison Coordinator is a key member of OAMH whose role is to drive initiatives that are focused on enhancing community wellness. This position provides evidence-based research, policy analysis, strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation for the creation, implementation and evaluation of a structure that will support liaising with community organizations identified as contributing to the efforts to enhance community mental health and wellness.

The successful applicant will have opportunities to work collaboratively with other members of the team, exploring leadership competencies to help ensure OAMH operational needs are met.

**Primary Accountabilities**:
You will directly contribute to the success of the OAMH by supporting the team in the following ways:

- Providing leadership to complex addictions and mental health system projects, across the continuum of addictions and mental health, with significant coordination and collaboration across multi-sectors - department, government (e.g. Department of Community Services, Department of Justice), health authorities and community-based organizations.
- Influences the development of system strategy, standards, and policy through utilization of relevant research, literature, jurisdictional scans, stakeholder consultation and community engagement, ensuring evidence-informed analysis of impact and implications of current and proposed policy and standards and funding/investment decisions.
- Develops policy, legislation, grant frameworks and standards related to community organizations contributing to community wellness.
- Implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive accountability framework
- Leading multiple teams and providing functional direction to staff in various working groups, both within OAMH and collaboratively with staff from other branches and/or departments. (e.g. internal working groups to identify strategies to improve health system performance, monitoring of health system outcomes and performance measures.)
- Ensuring the effective management of financial resources by setting and evaluating organization performance targets, promoting diversity and a healthy, respectful workplace, monitoring Grant expenditures.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
A post-secondary degree in a related discipline (e.g. social science or health and human services) with demonstrated related management experience; an acceptable equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.

Work experience in the field of addictions and mental health is preferred.

Graduate degrees such as M.A.Ed, M.S.W, MSAC would be considered as asset.

Proficiency with computer software such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook is required.

Please follow LEADS (novascotia.ca) for more information.

We will assess the above qualifications and capabilities using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

**Equivalency**:
**Benefits**:
The Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as a Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Health, Dental, Life Insurance, General illness, Short and Long Term Disability, Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. For information on all our Benefit program offerings, click here: Benefits for government employees.

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