Community Care Centre Support Staff

**Position Title**:Community Care Centre Support Staff

**Manager**: Equity and Advocacy Manager

**Unionized/ Non-unionized**: OPSEU Local 557

**Position Type**:Full-time

**Compensation**:Starting Wage $35,820 (union grid)

**About the Student Association and CCC Department**
The Student Association at George Brown College is the official student union on campus representing full-time students.

The Community Care Centre (CCC) is a vibrant provider of integrated health services, community programming, and peer education initiatives that enable student wellness - all through an equity lens. The Community Care Centre focuses on health programming through such areas as consent, sexual health education, harm reduction, and more. The CCC collaborates with community groups and health providers to resource student needs. The CCC takes a comprehensive approach to health and wellness by supporting students’ health, emotional, and social well-being.
The CCC recognizes the importance of peer support and making connections through lived experiences. The CCC aims to strengthen students to live their whole selves with dignity. Specializing in serving those who traditionally face barriers to care. The CCC is open to all students, while prioritizing traditionally under-represented and underserved groups. For example:

- Black Students
- First Nations, Inuit, Métis Students
- Disabilities Students
- International/Racialized Students
- LGBTQ+ Students
- Women & Trans Students

The CCC runs alternative community centres on multiple campuses.

**Position Overview**
This position provides front-line service staffing the CCC as a welcoming, accessible, inclusive, and safer space open to all (day-to-day functioning of the physical spaces).
You will work in a dynamic environment alongside others, helping motivate and together jointly delivering a range of judgement-free peer supports and creative care practices that empower students in their capacity-building for self-care, mutual care, and collective care. The role engages students across different levels of awareness, and supports students through struggles impacting education both in and beyond the college. You will be central to activating social justice awareness, education, and activation campaigns (including through the linked Community Action Centre). It involves contributing as a campaign strategist, from pitching campaign plans in detail, launching campaigns or continuing on-going campaigns, implementation, outreach, communications, evaluation, and reporting - all towards delivering measurable impact to students. You will contribute to peer-based and equity focused programming and development.

The CCC operates across multiple campuses. Inter-campus and occasional off-site travel is required.

This role is a support role to the Community Care Centre, as coordinated by a
Community Care Coordinator. This role supports the CCC and a work portfolio as directed. While success in this role includes an effective relationship with the
Community Care Coordinator; the role is accountable to the Equity & Advocacy
Manager.

**Duties and Responsibilities (will include but not limited to)**:
**CAMPAIGN & EVENT ORGANIZING**
**Accepts responsibility performing the following as directed**:

- Implement campaigns and programming; including awareness campaigns and political agitations
- Campaign planning; including research, outreach/messaging, success metrics, reporting
- Prepare proposals and presentations on campaign plans for Coordinator, adaptable for a variety of audiences (including SA staff/management/board)
- Analyze campaigns for goals, strategies, and tactics; align to organizational goals and membership
- Propose outreach strategies and communication plans that, are consistent with departmental voice/tone, shows understanding/appreciation of different audiences and appeals to students’ needs, that effectively increases students’ participation
- Help plan campaign launches with other key timelines and benchmarks identified
- Support PT staff with approved activities (e.g. workshops, panels, peer groups/drop-ins)
- Organize logistics (e.g. space and table bookings, ASL interpreters, accessibility accommodations, food orders, A/V tech, contacts)
- Document campaigns and events (both wins and challenges) through report writing, or other means such as metrics, testimonials, storytelling, archiving, debriefs, data tracking, surveys etc. where applicable
- Delivers on student/public outreach tactics, including SA tabling and promotions
- Activate campaigns of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)
- Lead Special Projects/ Portfolios as assigned by Manager

**PEER SUPPORTS & WELLNESS**
- Offer peer supports as needed to members
- Provide knowledgeable peer supports, referrals, information
- Assist students in accessing CCC resources; maintain (including filling and tracking) resources in ways consistent with department standards (e.g. testosterone kits)
- Deliver peer supp