Job Posting - Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities - COP-COC Project Coordinator
Colour of Poverty
Job Posting
Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change Project Coordinator - Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities
Contract - 14 month Full-time position from February 2022 - March 31, 2023 (based on 35 hours a week, flexible weekly hours, including some weeknights and weekends)
Pay Rate - $50,000 per annum
Start date - February 2022
Project Description
The
Project full name is - “Breaking Down Barriers by Racialized Communities Through
Building Community Research and Knowledge Capacity”, and is funded by
the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Develop and deliver a project to -
a. Collect evidence and data for change – Work with Community Organisers and Researchers in Toronto, Durham Region, Peel Region, York Region, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor and Thunder Bay to conduct community-based research looking at barriers to employment and social participation by racialized communities.
b. Build community capacity – Work with Community Organisations to increase their capacity to tackle systemic barriers to employment and social participation.
c. Organise a knowledge sharing conference to look beyond problems and identify solutions to break down barriers through collaboration across communities as well as with the public and private sectors.
Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) is a network of organizations and individuals across Ontario working to build concrete strategies, tools, initiatives and community-based capacity. Through this approach, individuals, groups, and organisations (especially those reflective of the affected racialized communities – both Indigenous Peoples and peoples of colour) can begin to develop coherent shared action plans and effective coordinated strategies for collaborating with mainstream policy analysts and institutions, anti-poverty and social justice advocacy groups, governments, funders, and the media. Through this collaborative, we work together to address and redress the disturbing and growing structural and systemic ethno-racial inequities.
Job Requirements
· Using an equitable anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-oppressive framework, work with the Project Advisory to deliver all project activities and tasks to completion on time.
· Work with approved budgets and provide financial accounts on a regular basis.
· In coordination with the Project Advisory conduct all research, communication, promotion, reporting and logistics for the project.
· Engage with community organisations and community members to build and maintain partnerships and positive working relationships for the project, and with subject matter experts relevant to the project.
· In coordination with the Project Advisory outreach and recruit participants and volunteers for various aspects of the project.
Key Qualifications
· Experience working with community members and community organisations and groups to address issues faced by racialized communities.
· Sound understanding and experience working within an equitable anti-racist, anti-colonial and anti-oppressive framework.
· Demonstrated project management and implementation skills, including planning, logistics, narrative and financial reporting, communication, recruiting and working with partners, and meeting project deadlines.
· Demonstrated experience in community-based or community-centred, participatory action social sciences research is an asset.
· Demonstrated experience with developing web based and social media content, and social media promotion across various platforms is an asset.
· Familiarity with and understanding of the Truth & Reconciliation 94 Calls to Action, the 231 Calls for Justice of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - as well as other racial justice relevant international and domestic human rights instruments and mechanisms
Remote
work is possible while COVID-19 related public health advisories are in
place. The successful candidate must be willing to travel - on occasion
and if necessary, and subject to health advisories - to
the Ontario communities named in the project description above. Please
note that the COP-COC office has a mandatory vaccination policy.
Colour of
Poverty – Colour of Change is committed to employment equity. While
voluntary, we encourage you to indicate in your application if you are
an Indigenous person, person of colour; your gender identity;
sexuality or sexual orientation; or if you are a person living with a
(dis)ability.
To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter stating why you are interested in the position through this link https://secure.collage.co/jobs/cassa/27240
Deadline for application - January 28, 2022 at 5pm
We thank
all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates
selected for interviews will be contacted. No telephone inquiries
please.
Coordinator
Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change
# 505 - 123 Edward St.
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E2 Canada
Phone - 416-966-3882
Fax - 416-971-6780
E-mail - kerr.m...@gmail.com
Web-site - www.colourofpoverty.ca
Colour of Change Network - https://groups.google.ca/group/ColourofChangeNetwork
YouTube Channel - www.youtube.com/colourofpoverty
Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/colourofpoverty.colourofchange
Twitter - @colourofpoverty #racesEDJ