Consultant, Public Policy

**Req ID**:203260**
**Location**:Northern** Zone,**Colchester East Hants Health Centre**
**Department**:PH HC Admin NZ**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent**Hourly FT** (**100%**) x**1**
**Management/Non Union** P**osition**
**Posting Closing Date**:9-Jun-25**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

**About the Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Manager, Healthy Communities (Central Zone), the Consultant, Public Policy and Social Action provides advanced knowledge, leadership and coordination of the PH zone workforce development in the area of public policy and social action, and advocacy. The consultant will demonstrate a solid understanding of how to action public policy development with municipal and other levels of government and will share this knowledge with others.

The position works closely with the Manager, Healthy Communities, and other Consultants both within the zone and NSHA to strengthen the Healthy Communities workforce to animate the steps of public policy. The position provides advice and direction for the planning and implementation of public policy work. The consultant is a resource and support to front-line staff as they strengthen and build public health competencies related to public policy work. The Consultant has in-depth knowledge of the steps of public policy animation and understands how to create and plan opportunities for strengthening practice among staff. The position also engages in public policy work to build competency in self and others and uses participatory processes to teach, reflect and strengthen the knowledge base among the Healthy Communities team in the zone and in the NSHA.

The Consultant collaborates with system and external partners, identifies and monitors key indicators, and supports knowledge exchange across the health system and other sectors. The position monitors trends, gathers new evidence and continually builds their knowledge to improve approaches to public policy work.

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Masters in public health, health promotion or equivalent with 3-5 years relevant experience
- Baccalaureate degree in health promotion or other relevant field with 5-7 years relevant experience
- Equivalent combination of education and 7 years progressive leadership experience may be considered
- Eligible for registration with a professional body as appropriate.
- Experience in planning, development and evaluation of public health programs, services and initiatives. Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health and LEADS
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of partners using a variety of methods.
- Demonstrated success in advocating for public policy through the building of strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners. (school boards, municipal units)
- Demonstrates knowledge of the Social Determinants of Health and their impact on health equity and the health of the community
- Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem-solving skills
- The incumbent must have the ability to work under pressure within tight deadlines
- Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills
- Ability to deal with competing priorities
- Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities
- Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect and accountability
- Experience in advocating for policy change
- Knowledge of community development and mobilization
- Demonstrated expertise on the role of public policy and social action in healthy communities' work

**About You Continued**:

- Physical demands of the position include regular travel throughout the Zone; visual demands consistent with significant computer work; moderate mental demand in assessing complex issues and creating solutions; periods of increased workload and stress as well as cope with a variety of personalities as part of a high-performance team
- Valid Driver’s License and access to a reliable vehicle
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred
- Successful Applicants are required to provide a criminal record check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to People Services before starting e