BC Healthy Communities Society ,Community Liaison Jobs in Canada

Anticipated Start Date: June/July 2015

BACKGROUND

BC Healthy Communities Society (BCHC) is a dynamic not-for-profit
society that provides Healthy Communities services, tools, resources
and supports to community organizations, local governments and health
authorities across BC to build healthier, resilient and sustainable
communities.

In this new position with the organization, we are seeking someone who
brings strong capacity building expertise, is a systems thinker, and
can embrace complexity and experimentation. The focus of this role
will be two-fold: being the point person that supports communities in
utilizing our capacity building grant programs as well as being the
team lead for translating our evaluative data into valuable and
engaging learning and outreach information.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Community Liaison works closely with the BCHC team as part of a
highly collaborative learning organization. In this role you will act
as the key liaison for communities to support the development and
implementation of a range of capacity building grants including:
PlanH, Healthy Aging and Municipal Alcohol Policy. This includes
acting as primary contact for communities, responding to inquiries and
working more deeply to support communities to access and maximize our
capacity building opportunities (which includes several grant
programs). In addition, you will be the team lead responsible for
holding our program and organizational evaluation data and ‘making
sense’ of it: identifying patterns and themes, harvesting learning
opportunities, and translating qualitative and quantitative data into
vivid stories and other learning tools.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Capacity Building Support
• Be the first point of contact for communities, introducing and
explaining the range of BC Healthy Communities’ capacity building
supports (e.g. grants, workshops, webinars, etc.) to inquiring
communities and local governments.
• Build strong community partnerships and help to connect community
needs with opportunities
• Outreach to, and liaise with, potential and current grantees,
providing support or ‘coaching’ to communities so they are well placed
to apply for, utilize and achieve the intended outcomes from our
capacity building grants.
• Administer the grant programs, including tracking reports,
deliverables, timelines and payment schedules.

Evaluation
• Oversee and manage data collection for all BC Healthy Community
grant programs, including creating a data management system to track
grant outcomes.
• Review mid-term and final grantee reports, identifying and
harvesting patterns and emerging themes.
• Provide overarching ‘sense-making’ and pattern finding expertise to
BCHC’s evaluative data
• Compile data, statistics and other information from a variety of
sources (event evaluations, mid-term and final reports, surveys, etc)
that support programs and initiatives.
• Develop evaluative reports and updates (including qualitative and
quantitative information) and present evaluation outcomes at meetings.

Communications
• Providing key information from evaluation data to be shared as
stories, quotes, statistics that are helpful for our communications
(ie quotes for social media and our website, interesting statistics
around patterns identified, etc).
• Work closely with our Communications Specialist to translate data
into engaging stories, infographics, reports and other communications
tools.

Other
• Provides overall supports for BCHC program and project activities
and initiatives as needed, works closely with the BCHC team to support
strategic planning, and overall organizational learning and
development.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
• Strong knowledge of, and experience with, community capacity
building, community development, and/or social change approaches.
• Team player who works well in a collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated organization skills, strong focus on detail and accuracy.
• Flexibility: able to adapt to changing timelines, different people
and work assignments.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong project/time management skills.
• Self-starter, affinity for process improvements and problem solving
abilities.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Ability to analyze complex scenarios, troubleshoot and make
recommendations in alignment with the program and organizational
vision.
• Values life-long learning, has a good sense of humour.

DESIRED TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
• Experience with non-profit/community development/health promotion.
• Relevant post secondary education.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills.
• Minimum 3 years of related experience.
• Strong computer skills -proficient using a Mac with experience using
Excel and a knack for learning new programs.
• Good at trouble shooting/ (web) technically handy.

LIFE AT BCHC

BCHC offers a progressive workplace culture that encourages leadership
and learning. The benefits of working at BCHC include:
• Supportive, respectful team that ‘walks-the-talk’ around personal
health and sustainability.
• Office space in a Green Workplace; our LEED gold building has high
indoor air quality, fresh air, natural light and end-of-trip
facilities for your active transportation commute.
• Allowance for flexible hours when needed and consideration of a
part-time home office.
• Opportunities for professional development to improve your existing
knowledge and passion for facilitation, community development,
narrative storytelling, integral theory and collective impact.

Compensation range is competitive and based on experience. Part-time
home office may be required.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Please title the subject line of your email: Community Liaison – First
Name Last Name
Example: Community Liaison -Jodi Mucha

Send a cover letter and curriculum vitae to: Jodi Mucha at
Jodi@bchealthycommunities.ca

Application Deadline: May 15, 2015 4:30PM PST

No inquiries please.
** Please note that only successful candidates will be contacted.