2023-20 Equity Diversity Inclusion Specialist(Full - Toronto, Canada - Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth

Eva's Initiatives for Homeless Youth

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EDI SPECIALIST (Full-Time, Permanent)

THE OPPORTUNITY
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Join one of the _
Top 100 Charity Organizations_
today Since 2010, Charity Intelligence has awarded Eva's with the highest rating available based on financial transparency, accountability to donors and cost-efficiency._

Eva's Turns Youth Homelessness into Home

Youth experiencing homelessness who are Black, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+, racialized, or newcomers are overrepresented in the population of youth experiencing homelessness.

In Canada, racism, specifically anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism, permeates society, creating social and health inequities.

To respond to the needs of homeless youth and decrease social and health inequities experienced by Black, Indigenous and racialized youth, culturally responsive supports and services must be provided.

These supports center the identities and cultures of young people and affirm their holistic identity, taking into consideration the barriers they navigate in their daily lives.

This ensures that services respond to the specific needs of youth instead of compounding the barriers they are already facing.

Eva's provides shelter, transitional housing, and health and well-being programming to help youth experiencing or at risk of homelessness in Toronto.

Join our expert staff help young people reach their potential and lead fulfilling, healthy lives.

At Eva's, we help young people move from crisis to stability with the ultimate goal of moving to independence.

We work with each young person to develop an achievable action plan, attain their goals, and build strong community connections.

ROLE OVERVIEW
This position reports to the Sr. Director of Equity is located at
Eva's Administrative Office at
401 Richmond St. W, Suite 245, Toronto ON.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will build and deliver employee programs, policies, and services to help Eva's work to build out it's equity programming for the organization.

Work collaboratively, with all departments, programs, and other stakeholders, to participate in and support ongoing initiatives across all aspects of the employee experience to foster a more diverse and inclusive workplace and make recommendations to address gaps.

Organize and facilitate internal culture-building programming, events and heritage and history month planning, including internal speaking series, quarterly DEI summits and company-wide DEI events.

With guidance and direction from the Sr.

Manager, lead the Organization in an ongoing process to identify and make recommendations to eliminate systemic barriers and inequities in our employment systems and services.

Facilitate an employee working group, and coordinates reporting and measurement of outcomes.

Lead the development, sourcing and/or facilitation of employee and leader training programs related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Provide project management support and coordinate with action owners to ensure initiatives have clear objectives, delivery timelines, and resources.

Collect, analyse, and evaluate data to report on progress and make recommendations for improving employee programs, policies and practices including workforce census data reports; interpret data compared to labour market data.

Develop evaluation tools to measure and monitor the effectiveness of programs and initiatives.

Work to build strong relationships and trust with staff, community members, groups and organizations involved in this work.

Other duties as assigned by management in support of organizational goals.

QUALIFICATIONS
University degree or equivalent experience.

3-7 years of progressive experience in a relevant field.

Able to lead tactical projects or processes, setting goals and objectives for cross-functional teams and tracking progress.

Demonstrated ability in the analysis of systemic oppression and how it operates between and across systems, particularly within the organizational culture.

Working Knowledge of the human rights code, occupational health and safety act.

Working knowledge of Anti-Black racism, Anti

Indigenous racism and Critical Disability studies and Critical Race theory.

High level of interpersonal skills and integrity; ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

Experience in conflict mediation, and resolution processes.

Self-starter with a growth mindset and a demonstrated ability to think outside the box to solve problems.

Ability to achieve results quickly in a fast-paced organization; thrives in a high intensity environment with multiple and competing priorities.

Professional demeanor; embraces a collaborative team environment; solid team player.

Good communication, presentation and negotiation skills.

Ability to distill ideas and key concepts and communicate them effectively to team members and staff.

Ability to make logical, balanced decisions on the basis of available information; can