Program Consultant

**Through its core values of**_Courage, Respect and Excellence_**, CAMH is implementing its Strategic Plan**:_Connected CAMH,_** to transform lives, ignite innovation and discovery, revolutionize education and drive social change. CAMH is more than a hospital, it is a cause. CAMH is on a mission to change the way society thinks about and responds to mental illness. They aim to eliminate prejudice and discrimination and shape a world where mental illness is central to our healthcare system - a world where Mental Health**_is_** Health.**

**To view our Land Acknowledgment, please click**here**.**

**Position Description**

The YWHO Provincial Office at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) supports a healthy workplace that embraces diversity, encourages teamwork and complies with all applicable standards and requirements. This position will be in Ontario, anywhere outside of the GTA.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

- Provide expertise and advice related to equity, anti-racism, and anti-oppression to strengthen internal YWHO practices to support the implementation and evaluation of the YWHO model across Hub Networks.
- Develop and support strategies to promote an ongoing learning culture for integrating equity into implementation science and quality improvement frameworks (workshop coordination, lunch & learns, Community of Practice, provide support/ consultation to YWHO sites)
- Understand and review trends, monitoring and evaluating data, to identify gaps and opportunities to strengthen equitable service delivery into program and project planning for the YWHO program
- Identifying, engaging and fostering collaborative relationships with stakeholders to develop a shared understanding and vision.
- Developing an understanding of the local youth mental health and substance use system in order to support contextualized implementation
- Co-developing, facilitating and establishing direction, objectives and consensus across diverse stakeholders
- Assisting teams (internal and external) with implementing practice and/or system change through facilitation, problem solving, focused capacity building, consensus building, decision making and conflict resolution.
- Assessing needs and coordinating capacity building for project members
- Developing project implementation plans, processes and tools based on evidence informed implementation approaches, utilizing Implementation Science as a foundational approach.
- Coaching to multiple levels of organizational staff using strength-based problem solving, active listening, motivational interviewing, modeling and other coaching strategies
- Building and supporting the capacity of organizations/agency to support sustainable and effective change
- Supporting the implementation of improvement cycles across and within organizations

**Job Requirements**
- Experience in assisting teams with implementing evidence-based practices, interventions, and/or programs through facilitation, problem solving, collaboration and co-design, and conflict resolution is required.
- Expertise in health equity and a proven record of engaging others in open, meaningful and productive dialogue about equity, racism, and oppression.
- Strong knowledge of Ontario’s youth mental health and substance use system/services, partnered with a demonstrated commitment to principles of equity, inclusivity, respect, and social justice.
- Demonstrated ability to provide guidance and leadership to collaborative partnerships and experience facilitating or contributing to strategic planning processes.
- Demonstrated ability to coach to multiple levels of organizational staff using strength-based problem solving, active listening, motivational interviewing, modeling and other coaching strategies.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal, communication (oral/written), community engagement, and creative problem-solving abilities are required.
- Experience working within an implementation science framework or other evidence informed implementation or quality improvement framework.
- Demonstrated commitment to principles of equity, inclusivity, respect and social justice.
- Demonstrated ability to work with in collaboration with diverse stakeholders and clients of diverse backgrounds, equity seeking groups (such as First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other racialized people).
- Experience in assisting teams with system change initiatives through facilitation, problem solving, decision making and conflict resolution.
- Demonstrated skills and commitment to data driven/evidence-informed decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work on a team, as well as function independently with mínimal supervision.
- Excellent organizational, planning and time management skills, with the ability to multi-task, produce and coordinate projects to tight deadlines.

Other Skills:

- Bilingualism (French/English) and/or proficiency in a second language are assets.
- A valid license, access to vehicle