Project Coordinator, Mental Health Crisis Response Education and Applied Training

**Date**:Mar 4, 2025 **Location**: Brantford, CA **Company**:Wilfrid Laurier University **Department**: Faculty of Human & Social Sciences **Job Type**: Limited Term **Full-time/Part-time**: Full Time (>=1249 hrs/year) **Campus**: Brantford **Reports to**:Senior Administrative Officer, Faculty of Human and Social Sciences **Employee Group**: PAG **Application Deadline**:March 18, 2025 **Requisition ID**:9105 Wilfrid Laurier University is a leading multi-campus university that excels at educating with purpose. Through its exceptional employees, students, researchers, leaders, and educators, Laurier has built a reputation as a world-class institution known for its rich student experience, academic excellence, and global impact. With a commitment to Indigenization and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, Laurier’s thriving community has a place for everyone. Laurier has more than 21,000 students and 2,100 faculty and staff across campuses in Waterloo and Brantford, as well locations in Kitchener and Milton. The university is committed to providing an inclusive workplace, a flexible work policy and employing a workforce that is reflective of local and national demographics. Laurier's Waterloo, Kitchener, and Brantford campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples. This land is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples and symbolizes the agreement to share, protect our resources, and not to engage in conflict. Laurier's Milton campus is located on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, and part of the Nanfan Treaty of 1701 between the British Crown and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. **Position Summary**: The Centre for Public Safety and Well-Being (CPSW) is within the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences. The Centre offers exciting learning opportunities through professional development programs for people working or aspiring to work in a wide range of industries, including public safety, health, wellness and well-being. As a key member of the CPSW team, reporting to the Senior Administrative Officer in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences on the Brantford campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, the primary role of the Project Co-ordinator is to oversee the management of the Mental Health Crisis Response Education and Applied Training program (MHCR), identify priorities and goals, develop and execute implementation plans, and mobilize resources to meet the immediate and long-term goals of the MHCR. The Project Co-ordinator is responsible for MHCR communications, budget management, project timelines and deliverables, event coordination and the successful execution of the training related to MHCR. The MHCR is a hybrid, scenario-based curriculum that offers an evidence-based, standardized training protocol on de-escalation and mental health crisis response for police services, with the objective to further develop de-escalation and communication strategies, mental health awareness, empathy, and cultural safety for police response to citizens in a mental health crisis. As of April 1, 2024, the Ministry of the Solicitor General has mandated that all police officers in Ontario complete this training annually in compliance with Ontario Regulation 87/24 and MHCR is mandatory as part of the basic constable training course at the Ontario Police College. **Accountabilities**: **PLAN/IMPLEMENT**: - Identify project priorities of MHCR and develop short, medium, and long-term goals and workplans - Anticipate and mobilize resources needed to support the goals of MHCR - Create, monitor, and update project budgets - Develop and implement protocols and best practices for all phases of MHCR - Coordinate internal and external resources to ensure that projects adhere to scope, schedule, and budget - Develop a records management system and processes to track and communicate successful program completion. - Day to day guidance of the Registration and Administrative Coordinator and the Program Logistics Coordinator **MANAGE**: - Oversee the progress of MHCR, in pursuit of meeting medium and long-term goals, by maintaining administrative and logistic processes, anticipate and problem-solve difficulties to ensure the integrity and completeness of training, and address any team issues promptly. - Establish and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders - Manage finances of MHCR by reconciling projected budgets against actual expenses (e.g. accessing financial information in Laurier’s Millennium and Banner online systems) - Monitor project progress regularly to ensure project milestones are completed within allotted timelines and budgets. - Work with management to prepare project plan, budget and schedules. - Create and maintain data bases for the purposes of tracking activities including participation, completeness, and ministry reporting - Maintain the MHCR website and con