Community Engagement Officer Public Health Projects

Digital Public Square (DPS) seeks a Community Engagement Officer, to work with Equity Deserving Communities on a public health project. We are looking for someone whose eyes light up when you hear about an opportunity to engage with equity deserving community members, on a Public Health initiative, within a working culture of smart, genuinely caring, and driven people.

Digital Public Square is a technology-powered non-profit that works to build healthy communities enabled by good technology. We aren’t a tech company that declared a mission. We are a mission-based Not-for-Profit that builds great technology. In fact, we don’t define ourselves by what we are “not” (ie: a Not-For-Profit), rather we define ourselves as a For-Impact organization because we have strong revenue streams.

We work on some of the biggest threats today such as mis/disinformation that is toxic to marginalized communities. We help communities become more inclusive and responsive. Our commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Belonging are baked into our culture and our technology offering: Equality comes from meaningful participation; Diversity is how we grow.

Why not spend the next step in your career on work worth doing? We pay competitive wages and provide health benefits from the first day of employment.

**About Digital Public Square**

Communities are healthier when they have vibrant spaces and opportunities to cultivate belonging, inclusion, connectedness, and meaningful engagement. Digital Public Square (DPS) and its founding team have spent the better part of a decade learning how to create tools that generate these outcomes with good technology. From building platforms that track political accountability; to tackling critical public health issues that impact the world; empowering new voices countering violent online narratives with evocative campaigns; and even creating new ways for neighbourhood communities to reach decisions — Digital Public Square has created tools that enable people to more safely explore complex ideas at scale.

**How you work**:

- Thoughtful, flexible, and affable
- Collaborative and communicative
- Able to balance priorities of a diverse set of stakeholders to arrive at shared interests
- A critical thinker, not afraid to ask questions
- Proactive problem solver
- Continuously Learning
- Outcome and Impact Oriented
- Fosters healthy relationships

**What you will do**:
It’s a wonderful moment to join us We are clear on our mission, we have experimented and know what works in the market. Working closely with Project Leads and Project Officers, you will join our programs team and help produce impactful program outcomes.
- Lead all engagements with equity-deserving communities to achieve project goals
- Foster new relationships with equity deserving communities, fostering meaningful partnerships
- Support the development of an engagement strategy
- Lead and coordinate project focus groups and community listening sessions
- Communicate regularly with project stakeholders and team members, including relaying briefs, connecting daily tasks to larger goals, and providing context and support
- Developing public health-related content to support new products and campaigns
- Work with a cross-functional team of product managers, data scientists, and strategists to launch campaigns
- Coordinate the production of website content
- Help set impact metrics and then communicate and celebrate successes

**Who you are**:
We know that some of the best Community Engagement professionals come from virtually any background so we've built the following list as a _guideline _for some of the skills and interests - but we strive to build our team with members from a diverse background and skill set, so if any combination of these applies to you, please apply.
- Character: integrity; honesty; credibility, passionate
- 2+ years of experience conducting community engagement with equity-deserving communities in Canada
- A relationship builder, someone who is eager to form meaningful connections with communities, ready to listen and learn
- Experimental mindset and evidence-based decision maker (we are a research-based organization that will always ask for a hypothesis and how you will go about testing it)

**Bonus if you have any of the following (tell us about it in your cover letter)**:

- Demonstrated interest in public health campaigns
- Interest in the mis/disinformation space
- Interest in the ethical use of technology

We understand that joining a team is one of the most important decisions you make. Adding a team member is also one of the most important decisions we make. We want you to get to know us and we want to understand how you approach problems and learn. Our vision is to build healthy communities that raise the quality of life for everyone, and that includes our team members. To foster fairness and minimize bias, we have built a structured interview process that helps us get to each other.

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