Program Specialist, Healthy Communities

**Req ID**:211605**
**Location**:Provincial**Position, Flexible Within the Province**
**Department**:PH SSP Healthy Communities**
**Type of Employment**:Permanent**Hourly FT** (**100%**) x**1**
**NSGEU** **Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date**:3-Nov-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**:
The Program Specialist provides leadership and advanced knowledge in health promotion, policy development and public health theory and practice to support the implementation of the Healthy Communities program throughout the province. The position is responsible for:

- Providing expert level advice, evidence and best practice on advancing the understanding of healthy communities work.
- Managing projects and coordinating teams working on a specific content issue.
- Retrieving, assessing and synthesizing complex research findings to inform knowledge translation tools and capacity building opportunities.
- Developing policy and practice tools to support healthy communities program, health promoting schools and healthy public policy work.

**About You**:

- Bachelor's degree in health promotion or other relevant field with 5 years relevant experience
- Masters in public health, health promotion or other relevant field with 3 years relevant experience
- Knowledge of social determinant of health, awareness and study of one’s own power and privilege and, appropriate public health approaches to reduce health inequities.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods.
- Success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to support health equity work.
- Judgment, decision making, and problem solving skills
- Project management, planning and time management skills. Ability to work flexibly and with competing priorities.
- Strong group facilitation and process skills.
- Experience in evidence informed practice, conducting evidence reviews and producing evidence briefs.
- Demonstrated proficiency in LEADS
- Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities
- High standards of ethics, integrity, respect and accountability.
- Action oriented and strong ability to complete time sensitive tasks.
- Competencies in other languages an asset

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

**Hours**:

- Permanent, Full-time Position, 70 Hours Bi-weekly

**Compensation and Benefits**:
$40.01 - $48.54 hourly

**Once You've Applied**

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units, or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.