Director of Youth Engagement

**Highlights of this opportunity**:
As a member of the Senior Leadership team at UNYA the **_Director of Youth Engagement_** is responsible for the overall planning and delivery of a portfolio of programs, services, and support that UNYA offers to Indigenous youth. The position provides effective leadership, and strategic direction, and support to a team of staff that are currently operating programs under contract. The Director also provides accountability in facilitating the program deliverables that are outlined in the contract. The Director of Youth Programs reports directly to the CEO of UNYA. This position maintains a 9-5 Monday to Friday schedule.

**Qualifications and Conditions**:

- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field, 5 years of recent related Senior Management experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Experience working with the Indigenous community, Ministry of Children Family Development, and Vancouver Aboriginal Child Family Services Society. Must demonstrate a good working knowledge of community resources in Vancouver, particularly youth & Indigenous-specific resources.
- Knowledge and understanding of the family and social issues that Indigenous youth face today, including the generational impacts of the residential school system on families and communities.
- Must have working knowledge of management responsibilities, fiscal responsibility, supervisory skills, and coordinating staff and/or volunteers. Will have the ability to work independently as well as part of a team. Must have strong written and oral communications skills, including the ability to compile accurate records and prepare reports. Must possess a good working knowledge of computer systems and programs.
- Must demonstrate the ability to identify with mandate, policies and procedures of the organization.
- Must have a criminal record check completed by and satisfactory to UNYA.
- Work within the agency culture to ensure staff are supporting Indigenous youth to address the effects of colonization and intergenerational trauma, and reinforcing a positive sense of belonging and Indigenous identity.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Responsible to ensure all staff are working within and adhering to UNYA’s Philosophy of Care model, UNYA’s Human Resources Policies and Procedures and UNYA’s Communicable Disease prevention policy. This also includes responsibility to abide and enforce any applicable Provincial Health Orders or requirements that arise.
- To work closely with the three other Vancouver Youth Hubs, MCFD, VACFSS, and other funders to plan, develop, and evaluate activities and programs that will benefit the Program. Ensure the programs are reaching the identified goals.
- Ongoing coordination of all supervised staff and programs, assisting with planning, facilitating, and recording meetings, and any other reasonable task to support the programs.
- Ongoing recruitment, training, supervising, and monitoring of staff and volunteers to best utilize their skills to benefit the program. This includes, but is not limited to, creating and/or maintaining a staff information package, ensuring criminal record checks are up to date and satisfactory to UNYA and relevant partners, ensuring staff and volunteers know who they are accountable to, developing and maintaining ongoing staff and volunteer postings, ‘job’ descriptions, and contracts
- Ensure that supervised programs plan, and/or deliver culturally appropriate programs, services, and workshops.
- Work with Program Supervisors to create, negotiate, and monitor all budgets for the programs.
- Respond to staff needs for immediate supervision when crisis exist. Field all concerns, incidents or crisis’ which affect program mandate, agency policy, personal issues, community relations, resident youth,
- Provide informational and work related personal support to all team members, as well as the development of appropriate training opportunities.
- Administration & Reporting; keep accurate records of staff, practicum student, and volunteer hours, submit to Accounting for payroll, maintain and accurately account for all financial transactions, and all other reasonable tasks to benefit the program
- Provide required monthly reports to CEO, keep accurate statistical reports for the purpose of tracking program statistics, ongoing assessment of the program, and for reporting purposes to the funder.
- Advocate for more services for Indigenous youth and/or advocate for services to become more culturally appropriate for the clients we serve
- Core member of the UNYA Senior leadership team that works closely together to strategize when critical agency issues arise.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the CEO.

**What we offer**:

- Salary range $90,000- $95,000
- 40 hours a week
- Vacation and Wellness days
- Employer paid - Comprehensive Benefits package
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which consists of no-cost counselling services to U