Consultant, Strategic Partnership & Engagement - Public Health

Req ID : 191607

Location : Eastern Zone, Flexible Within Eastern Zone

Department : PH HC Healthy Communities Admin EZ

Type of Employment : Permanent Hourly FT ( 100% ) x 1

Management / Non Union P osition

Posting Closing Date : 28-Nov-24

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.

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The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle.

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About the Opportunity

Reporting to the Manager, Healthy Communities, the Consultant, Strategic Partnership and Engagement provides advanced knowledge, leadership, and coordination of the PH Zone workforce development in the area of partnerships.

The position is responsible, working with others, to strengthen and build a culture of working in successful partnerships and civic engagement in Public Health.

The position works closley with the Manager, Healthy Communities and other Consultants to provide advice and direction for partnership engagement, building and sustaining effective coalitions.

The Consultant has in-depth knowledge of the steps of developing and sustaining partnerships and coalitions and understands how to create and plan opportunities for strengthening practice among staff.

The incumbent achieves this by providing the necessary guidance, coordination and direction to staff on the use of menthods and tools, continually advising staff practice and recommending quality intiatives and work practice changes to the manager.

The position builds and links to coalitions, strengthens the work in partnership between Mental Health & Addiction Service, Primary Health Care and the NSHA's department of Public Engagement and Community Health Board Support, the Consultant is a champion for volunteerism and seeks ways to mobilize community in taking action for better health outcomes.

The position works with local CHBs through community health planning and links the PH work plans around CHB priorities.

The Consultant collaborates with system and external partners, identifies and monitors key indicators, and supports knowledge exchange across the health system and other sectors.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following :

• Masters in public health, health promotion, or equivalent with 3 - 5 years relevant experience
• Baccalaureate degree in health promotion or other relevant field, with 5 - 7 years’ relevant experience
• Equivalent combination of education and 7 years’ progressive leadership experience may be considered
• Eligible for registration with a professional body, as appropriate
• Training in IAP2
• Experience in planning, development and evaluation of public health programs, services and initiatives
• Demonstrated proficiency in the Core Competencies for Public Health and LEADS
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders using a variety of methods
• Demonstrated success in building strategic partnerships, networks, coalitions, and collaborative working relationships with a variety of internal and external partners to support public policy work (school boards, municipal units)
• Demonstrated judgment, decision making, and problem solving skills
• Demonstrated planning, organization and time management skills. Ability to deal with competing priorities

About You Continued

• Demonstrated innovative systems thinking with an understanding of working with communities
• Demonstrated high standards of ethics, integrity, respect and accountability
• Demonstrated knowledge of volunteer management, training and orientation
• Demonstrated knowledge of community development and mobilization
• Demonstrated expertise on the role of partnerships and community engagement in animating public policy work
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

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

Hours

Permanent Full Time 100% FTE / 75 Hours Bi-weekly

Compensation and Benefits

$37.61 - $47.01 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan

Once You've Applied

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

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve.

We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black / African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals / Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.