Team Supervisor, Thunder Bay

Position**:Team** Supervisor**

Location**: Thunder Bay**

Reports to**: Director, Programs and Services**

**Context**

The Ontario Aboriginal HIV/AIDS Strategy (Oahas) is an Indigenous-led organization committed to promoting and supporting healthy, thriving Indigenous communities through providing culturally grounded education and access to harm reduction to reduce the transmission of HIV and other STBBIs in our communities. Oahas operates based on the principles of Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS (GIPA), Meaningful Engagement of People living with HIV/AIDS (MEPA), “nothing about us without us”, Indigenous harm reduction, and respect for our cultural knowledges and teachings. These foundational principles guide all aspects of our relationships and work.

**Organizational Values**

Oahas’ organizational values are Autonomy and self-determination, Accessibility, Innovation, Justice, Connection, Accountability, Hope and Advocacy. Based on our organizational values, we have developed agency wide accountability behaviours that are shared with all Oahas staff and used as part of our performance evaluation tools. These include engaging in the work using direct communication, kindness, generosity of spirit and respect.

**Summary**

Working as part of an integrated services team, the Team Supervisor ensures that services are operating effectively in keeping within operational goals and planning. This role and its functions are located across Oahas program sites. With support and guidance from the Oahas Central office, the Team Supervisor is expected to manage the local team matters at the site they are located. We anticipate an approximately time breakdown as follows:

- 40% of the time is spent on staff supervision and overseeing and managing service delivery;
- 30% of the time on administration including finances, timesheets, internal meetings, and reporting;
- 30% of the time engaging with community through service provision and attending partnership meetings or committees.

Guided by a strengths-based multidisciplinary approach, rooted Oahas’ values, this position will work closely with Indigenous communities to be responsive to their needs and desires, as it relates to providing cultural programming, HIV & HCV education and prevention, access to testing and treatment, and linkage to care and other health services. This position is expected to actively engage with community members, volunteers, staff, Knowledge Carriers, and partnering agencies to strengthen the health and well-being Indigenous people living with or at risk of acquiring HIV and HCV. This role has financial and budgeting responsibilities. Regular travel is required, along with some evening and weekend work.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Community and Client Services**
- Lead the delivery of culturally grounded and safe services while increasing and maintaining community engagement in Oahas’ local programs and services. This includes providing direct support to community members from time to time.
- Implement assessment methods to monitor the effectiveness of service delivery while maintaining policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to ensure that services are effective.
- Advocate through presentations, sessions, workshops and training to service providers and institutions to increase better quality of care for Indigenous people accessing both mainstream and Indigenous specific services.
- Network and collaborate locally and regionally to ensure access to improved, culturally grounded, safe, and inclusive services and supports offered by Indigenous and non
- Indigenous agencies/institutions, AIDS Service Organizations and, individuals including Knowledge Carriers and Elders.
- Working with a collaborative team lead by research, stay current with epidemiological trends and statistics relevant to Indigenous people and support the integration of new knowledge to inform local work planning. This may include staying up to date in new developments in the field such as vaccines, criminalization of HIV, new trends or sector changes affecting Indigenous access to care, treatment, support, etc.
- Supervise the delivery of services related to Indigenous harm reduction, universal precautions, modes of transmission, safer sex, cultural awareness, Indigenous history, Indigenous awareness, two-spirit awareness, youth-specific awareness, trans awareness, LGQBT awareness, women’s awareness, sex-work, HIV and pregnancy, co-morbidities.
- Where resources are available, support the development and delivery of outreach and community-based HIV & HCV testing expansion through mobile outreach services.

**People Leadership and Supervision**
- Strengthen and support the development of healthy team dynamics, while supervising the building of service volume within assigned region.
- Ensure staff and teams work effectively and efficiently towards meeting annual planning goals tied to the Oahas operational plan and strategic plan. Supp