Competition # : 38473
Department: Health and Wellness
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: Exclusion – Non Union – NSPG
Closing Date: 3/31/2023 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
This opportunity is designated to applicants that identify as Indigenous Person, African Nova Scotian or Other Racially Visible Person, and Person with a Disability.
African Nova Scotian– is any Nova Scotian who chooses to declare African ancestry, regardless of how long they have lived here and regardless of how much African ancestry they can declare.
Indigenous Peoples – persons who identify themselves as First Nation (Status and non-Status), Métis, or Inuit
Persons with Disabilities – persons who, for the purposes of employment, identify themselves or believe that an employer is likely to consider that the workplace environment may create a barrier due to a long-term or recurring physical, mental, sensory, hearing, neurological psychiatric or learning disability.
Racially Visible Persons – persons, other than Aboriginal people or African Nova Scotians, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour.
The Department of Health and Wellness offers opportunities to grow and advance in a dynamic sector that touches the lives of all Nova Scotians. Along with our partners, including the Nova Scotia Health Authority and the IWK Health Centre, we’re committed to continually improving our health care system. With a focus on collaborative primary health care, continuing care, improved supports for mental health and addictions, digital health, capital infrastructure, and more, the department is thinking differently about how to plan, fund, legislate and monitor to improve access and service delivery. To do this, we need leaders at all levels of the organization who embrace a challenge and believe in their ability to make a difference.
As the Manager, Employee and Public Engagement, you will provide proactive leadership in building and sustaining a culture of staff, partnership and public participation in strategies and initiatives that are critical to advancing the department’s vision of “Healthy Nova Scotians”. You will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to activate engagement opportunities, sustain engagement platforms, facilitate topical conversations, improve communications, and build reciprocal trust with staff, community partners and Nova Scotians. You will also support regular leadership communications and messaging involving the Deputy Minister’s office and departmental staff.
The position reports to Director, Equity and Engagement Initiatives, with two direct reports (Project Manager, Employee Engagement, and Project Manager, Public Engagement).
]You hold a bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with extensive experience as a manager of people, and practice proficiency in the areas such as public engagement, communications, leadership, journalism, strategic planning, public policy, and project management. An equivalent combination of training and experience may be considered. In addition, you:
• Collaborate effectively with various stakeholders across community-based sectors, departments, and institutions, to achieve collective goals and objectives.
• Have a strong disposition for creativity, innovation, looking at the big picture and thinking outside the box, in starting, improving or leading new or existing programs
• Possess excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence staff, partners and stakeholders through engagement, speaking, writing and making presentations.
• Understand and have strong familiarity with industry-standard public engagement approaches and methodologies, such as the IAP2 public engagement spectrum
• Have an excellent background in project management principles, with the ability to lead and manage staff and community-based engagement projects from start to finish, including developing project briefs, work activity breakdowns and progress reporting.
• Have working relationships with a wide range of community stakeholders, equity populations, religious organizations, newcomers and other key stakeholders
• Possess the ability to collect and facilitate data collection, research initiatives, focus groups, committees, and community conversations, and using feedback and evidence to inform policies, new programs and other opportunities relating to employee and public engagement.
• You understand equity, inclusion and proactive engagement, and how they are important to moving the vision of the department forward.
Required competencies for this position include Decisiveness, Strategic Orientation, Developing Others, Team Leadership, Self-Awareness & Personal Impact, Effective Interactive Communication, Partnering & Relationship Building, Intercultural & Diversity Proficiency.
We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.
Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.
The Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click here to learn more about our various benefits offerings and eligibility criteria.
Pay Grade: EC 12
Salary Range: $3,561.95 – $4,452.43 Bi-Weekly