Engagement Coordinator

**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.**

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The McCain Centre is currently seeking a **full-time, contract (1 year)** Engagement Coordinator to join our team. The Engagement Coordinator will report directly to the project lead, with a dotted reporting line to the McCain Centre Manager. The Engagement Coordinator will be responsible for supporting the Canadian Youth Mental Health Insight (CYMHI) Platform project. Other projects may also be assigned.

The Insight Platform aims to optimize mental health for youth across Canada through open data, machine learning, and knowledge exchange by providing a state-of-the-art informatics platform to support knowledge and data integration, open data, machine learning, and improved communication between stakeholders.

The McCain Centre is using an approach that recognizes youth as equal collaborators with researchers and clinicians, engaging them in research projects, conferences and educational presentations to share their knowledge, recommendations and solutions.

In this role, the Engagement Coordinator will be involved in supporting a team of youth and family/caregivers with lived/living experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges to implement participatory research and system transformation initiatives in the context of a broader clinical research team. This will include overseeing the activities of the Youth and Family Advisory Committees, a group of youth and family members/caregivers with lived/living experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges who support and advise researchers to ensure their work is grounded in the needs and viewpoint of youth, family, and community consumers. Ideally, the coordinator will be an expert in the McCain Centre engagement model, including its implementation, administration and evaluation. The Coordinator will be expected to work collaboratively with the research team, other McCain Centre staff, and community partners.

The Engagement Coordinator will be an expert engagement program developer and facilitator, and will be able to lead the development of engagement projects, support social media engagement, blogging, oversee the development of interactive and developmentally-informed presentations, workshops and on-line and print resources, and teach prospective co-facilitators about effective youth engagement and facilitation. Additionally, they will contribute to proposals, reports and manuscripts.

Responsibilities include:

- Support youth engagement in the planning, implementation and evaluation of research and clinical activities
- Provide functional supervision to youth engagement staff
- Lead engagement coaching of the Insight Platform and its collaborators internal and external to CAMH
- Coordination and facilitation of youth and family/caregiver advisory group meetings, focus groups and consultations with broader groups of people with lived/living expertise as needed
- Support the dissemination of youth and family/caregiver engagement practices for research audiences
- Represent and present on behalf of the Insight Platform to internal and external audiences
- Provide administrative and coordination support to the Insight Platform (e.g., reporting, billing)
- Other duties as required

You will support a workplace that embraces diversity, that relies on teamwork and effective collaboration and that complies with all applicable regulatory and legislative requirements. This position is located at 80 Workman Way.

**Job Requirements**

All applicants offered and accepting employment must complete a Vulnerable Sector Police Records Check. The offer of employment will be conditional upon receipt of the satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Police Records Check.