Director, Quality, Compliance and Evaluation

**Title**:Director, Quality, Compliance and Evaluation

** Job Status**:Full Time, Permanent

** Hours of Work**:40 Hours/Week

** Job Region**:All Blue Door Locations (Work at Home/Remote)

** Salary**:$100,000-$120,000

**Job Summary**

Reporting to the Chief Operating officer, the Director Quality, Compliance and Evaluation will be responsible for preserving Blue Door’s integrity by ensuring high ethical standards, analytical, organized and diligent work keeping in mind the objectives of the organization as a business, facilitating smooth operations, maintaining strong infrastructure, and reviewing organizational adherence to Blue Door’s legal requirements and in-house policies.

The incumbent must possess strong collaboration and excellent communication skills to work with managers and employees and build strong relationships between departments and teams within Blue Door.

Additionally, the incumbent must possess strong research and analysis skills for conducting internal evaluation of program performance, partnering with external organizations on strategic research, and implementation of recommendations for organizational improvement.

**Responsibilities**:
**QUALITY & COMPLIANCE**

**Agreement and Reporting Management**
- Review and negotiate contracts as necessary, including without limitation Memorandums of Understanding, service agreements, grant agreements, funding agreements, and charitable partnerships. Ensuring a high degree of collaboration and alignment with organizational values, mission and strategic directions.
- Effectively implement and deliver on new contracts by liaising between appropriate departments to ensure all aspects of finance, statistics and program deliverables are tracked, communicated and understood.
- Take responsibility for program rollout and preparing reporting packages as necessary for grantors or funders as required.
- Communicate with management on schedules, delays and changes for Blue Door projects and program execution.
- Create and implement Project Management tools to assist teams in effectively managing their projects and thus ensuring compliance with deliverables and budgetary requirements.
- Ensure that all reporting is completed as required and on schedule.
- Oversee the documentation of all operations to ensure that consistent, efficient workflows are in place, yielding optimal productivity and performance.

**Board Committees**
- Compile monthly and periodic reports to the Board of Directors, including business plans without limitation, by-laws, monthly dashboards on program performance, updates on new initiatives, and risk registers.
- Provide presentations, draft resolutions, and background research to the Board of Directors as needed.
- Support the Finance, Risk, and Audit Committee (“FRAC”) in updating the finance and admin policy manuals, risk register, and any other related documents, including by presenting to the Board of Directors.
- Support the New Initiative Committee in updating the new initiative list, completing new initiative assessments, and presenting new initiatives to the Board of Directors.
- Support the Governance Committee in their review of by-laws and Board
- related policies from a management perspective.
- Support Board Committees as needed, including by drafting Committee mandates, completing Committee-specific projects, and providing research, advice, and recommendations to Committees.

**Compliance and Controls**
- Ensure compliance with charity law, including without limitation any Canada Revenue Agency requirements.
- Ensure compliance with corporate legislation applicable to federal and provincial not-for-profit corporations, including without limitation the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act.
- Develop and monitor control systems to prevent or deal with violations of legal guidelines, funder contracts and internal policies.
- Evaluate the efficiency of controls and improve them continuously.
- Revise procedures, reports (where necessary) etc. periodically to identify hidden risks or non-conformity issues.
- Review the work of colleagues when necessary to identify compliance issues and provide advice.
- Review and track compliance documentation.
- File regulatory reports and other documentation.

**Partnerships**
- Communicate, evaluate, execute, and administer intermediary partnership agreements as appropriate, including the drafting of intermediary partnership agreements.
- Liaise between resource development and finance, consult with Chief Operating Officer to ensure suitable agreements and reporting take place.
- Liaise with partner organizations to ensure appropriate direction and control of any transferred funds, resources, and capital, as well as compliance with any legal requirements.
- Knowledge of applicable charity law and trust law, including the law related to the provision of funds and resources to intermediaries.
- Structure appropriate policies, procedures and processes to execute intermediary partnershi