Advisor, Community Programming

Title: Advisor, Community Programming

Location: CAN - MB - Manitoba Region Winnipeg

Employment status: Temporary Full Time Until March 31, 2023

Salary band: $56,809 - $71,011/year

The Canadian Red Cross (CRC), an iconic brand and one of the most inspirational not-for-profit organizations on this planet, is seeking a Advisor, Community Programming to join our Canadian Operations Programs team.

You have a passion for helping others, and want to work with other dedicated individuals? By applying, you are taking a big first step to be part of an exciting organization.

At the Canadian Red Cross, we are guided by our fundamental principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. We help people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and support them in strengthening their resilience.

Starting with the hiring process, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment where everyone can reach their full potential. We encourage all qualified persons to apply, particularly Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, racialized people, and people with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and others who share our values and contribute to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

By invitation, the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) has been working with Indigenous communities and organizations across Turtle Island for a number of years. Through the pandemic, CRC has continued to evolve to better support Indigenous communities and partners as they respond to imminent and ongoing needs.

We are looking for a Advisor, Community Programming. The incumbent is accountable and responsible for supporting the engagement with Indigenous communities and implementation of the Creating Safe Environments strategy and Risk Reductions services within the Risk Reduction pillar. This includes supporting response efforts when called upon either virtually via guidance or in person as needed.

In this role, you will:

• Holds relationships with Emergency Management, Health, People Services, Communications, and other internal partners as it pertains to Risk Reduction and implementing the Creating Safe Environments Strategy.
• Contributes to the ongoing evaluation cycle of Risk Reduction activities to ensure plans and processes are culturally safe, evidence based and informed by best-practice.
• Represents and coordinates activities within the geography with national teams and working groups such as the Indigenous Peoples Help Desk;
• Develops and maintains partnerships with relevant provincial and territorial, community, and stakeholder organizations.
• Creates a culture of continuous innovation, and improvement, and scan for new opportunities within the sector where the organization can be positioned as a partner of choice.
• Delivers workshops, trainings and presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Compiles and prepares progress reports for internal purposes, analyzes results, and advises on problem areas.
• Monitor and analyses program/service delivery, reports known gaps and provides evidence based recommendations based on wise practices to support improved delivery.

What we are looking for:

• An understanding and skillset gained from multiple years of related work or community experience or a combination of life, education, work, and community experience;
• A strong understanding of Indigenous realties; this can come from life experience as an Indigenous person or working closely with Indigenous peoples;
• Understanding of the Red Cross and the role of community-based organizations in emergency response and long-term recovery will be strongly preferred;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; additional languages, including an Indigenous language or French, will be considered a strong asset;
• Proven relationship-building skills to build bridges amongst Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners;
• Strong writing skills with an ability to synthesize information from multiple sources;
• Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite, in particular proven skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint ;
• Analytical capacity, ability to problem solve and strong attention to detail;
• Effective interpersonal skills including an ability to work and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and to collaborate with colleagues remotely, especially in the context of program initiatives in a complex environment;
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information;

Working conditions

• Please note that there are no clinical responsibilities associated with this job.
• This position requires a satisfactory criminal record reference check;
• Compensation level: To be determied;
• During the extraordinaire environment created by the COVID19 Pandemic, this position will work remotely and/or from a home environment. The hiring manager will review this regularly.
• Full vaccination against COVID-19 is mandatory for this position and operation (the CRC will however adhere to its duty to accommodate those who are unable to be fully vaccinated for a reason related to a human right protected ground)

If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please notify us as soon as possible. All information received in relation to accommodation requests will be kept confidential.

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