Program Specialist

5 days ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health Full time

About the Role


The Program Specialist, Harm Reduction will work collaboratively with internal and external partners to coordinate initiatives that take action and advocate for policy and system change to create supportive social, economic, and physical environments that prevent harm, reduce stigma, and protect and promote health.


This role will synthesize data and evidence and use knowledge translation and mobilization techniques and tools to support the application of comprehensive, evidence-informed programs, services, policies, and strategies.


The Program Specialist will provide leadership and advanced knowledge in health promotion, health protection, harm reduction, and community development theory and practice to promote and support the development of policies, programs, and services and physical, social, and built environments to reduce health inequities and address the determinants of health.


This role will use health promotion and harm reduction approaches that support empowerment, participation, partnerships, and equity to perform their work in healthy public policy, community health assessments, community development, and mobilization.


Key Responsibilities



  • Providing expert-level advice, evidence, and best practice on advancing the understanding of harm reduction, stigma reduction, and trauma-informed work
  • Coordinating projects, initiatives, and teams working on specific content issues with internal and external partners
  • Contributing to knowledge translation by retrieving, assessing, and synthesizing complex research findings
  • Contributes to the development of policies and programs aimed at empowering marginalized populations and reducing stigma, in collaboration with key stakeholders
  • Collaboratively developing tools, indicators, and measures to enable an understanding of health protection and healthy communities work and how it translates related to specific issues

Requirements



  • Bachelor's in health promotion, sociology, or other relevant field with 5 years of relevant experience
  • Master's degree in public health, health promotion, or other relevant field with 3 years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of and experience in working with stigmatized populations and individuals who have experienced trauma
  • Strong skills and experience in facilitation
  • Philosophy and core principles of harm reduction
  • Media advocacy and communication
  • Oppression and stigma as a social determinant of health, awareness, and study of one's own power and privilege and appropriate public health approaches to reduce health inequities
  • Evidence-informed decision-making tools and practices, conducting rapid evidence reviews, and producing evidence briefs
  • Innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities and community-based organizations
  • The realities of poverty, class, racism, social isolation, past trauma, gender-based discrimination, and other social inequalities that affect both people's vulnerability and capacity for effectively dealing with drug-related harm
  • Interacting with municipal units, communities, and community leadership within zones
  • Working in coalitions and building strategic partnerships
  • Community development and mobilization
  • Project management techniques and processes

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