Senior Project Coordinator, Truth & Reconciliation (12 Month Contract)

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THE JOB: Senior Project Coordinator, Truth & Reconciliation (12 Month Contract)

The starting salary range falls within the minimum to mid-point of the salary range.

Starting Salary Range: $63,600 - $79,500

Reporting to the Director, Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism (ISAR) & Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), the Senior Project Coordinator, Truth & Reconciliation is responsible for the development, implementation, and coordination of the overall roadmap for the Truth & Reconciliation plan at Doctors of BC. This role ensures alignment with the organization's commitment to , eradicating Indigenous-specific racism, advancing cultural safety, and accountability to Indigenous partners and communities. The coordinator works collaboratively with internal teams, Indigenous leaders, external consultants, and system partners to integrate best practices, develop timelines, clarify roles and deliverables, and establish responsive feedback mechanisms throughout all phases of the project. A key aspect of the role includes tracking and reporting on project progress to various internal and external audiences, maintaining clear documentation, and ensuring alignment with the objectives of the Truth & Reconciliation plan.

This position requires strong communication and relationship-building skills to engage effectively with diverse partners including Elders, Knowledge Keepers, Indigenous physicians, cultural advisors, and representatives from the Ministry of Health, the Doctors of BC Board, and other system partners. The Senior Project Coordinator is a key liaison, ensuring communications are timely, culturally respectful, and tailored for different audiences. Meeting logistics, documentation, and the integration of cultural protocols are central responsibilities in this area.

Working closely with the Portfolio Management and Change Leadership (PMCL) team, the Senior Coordinator contributes to broader organizational learning and integrated planning efforts by capturing and applying lessons learned. They will ensure project activities meet PMCL standards and support continuous improvement. The role also includes managing project budgets, maintaining progress trackers, and incorporating insights and feedback from Indigenous partners into ongoing work. The successful candidate will bring a high degree of cultural competency, organizational skills, and a commitment to advancing Truth and Reconciliation in healthcare.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Analytical Thinking (A):

• Establishes clear goals and priorities and determines criteria for assessing issues and opportunities.
• Systemically analyzes relationships between different information sources and apparently independent problems and issues.
• Proactively resolves highly complex, undefined issues and anticipates trends and outcomes that are not readily apparent on the surface.
• Translates analytical reports into management presentations, and provides guidance to resolve issues.
• Identifies areas of significant concern or opportunity and initiates research to identify critical problems.

Building Relationships (A):

• Maintains effective communication and collaborates significantly with peers organization-wide
• Shares ideas, issues, and opportunities with members of personal network and maintains relationships with relevant professional groups and organizations.
• Sets objectives necessary for obtaining feedback and assistance.
• Seeks referrals from others with relevant expertise and influence.

Problem Solving (A):

• Diagnoses problems using formal problem-solving tools and techniques from multiple angles and probes underlying issues to generate multiple potential solutions.
• Proactively anticipates and prevents problems.
• Devises, facilitates buy-in, makes recommendations, and guides implementation of corrective and/or preventive actions for complex issues that cross organizational boundaries and are unclear in nature.
• Identifies potential consequences and risk levels. Seeks support and buy-in for problem definition, methods of resolution, and accountability.

Thoroughness (A):

• Identifies potential areas of conflicting priorities and vulnerability in achieving standards.
• Reviews department’s progress against established goals, objectives, service level targets, and projects
• Supports others in achieving deliverables by efficiently allocating resources and providing common organizing systems, techniques, and disciplines.
• Maintains a proactive work review and approval process prior to assignment completion.
• Solicits internal and external customer evaluation of performance and devises measures for improvement.

Communication For Results (A):

• Converses with, writes reports for, and creates/delivers presentations to all levels of colleagues and peer groups in ways that support problem solving, planning and consensus with business partners.
• Debates opinions, tests understanding, and clarifies judgments. Brings conflict into the open empathetically.
• Explains the context of multiple interrelated situations, asks searching, probing questions, and solicits expert advice prior to taking action and making recommendations.

Doctors of BC Team Member: Approaches work with a collaborative spirit recognizing we are better together. Embraces change, provides excellence in service and is accountable for their results and helping others achieve theirs. Does the right thing, not the easy thing. Speaks openly and honestly to tackle tough challenges and enrich relationships. Balances hard work with fun and is genuinely friendly and committed to other’s wellbeing.

WHAT YOU BRING

• In responding to the impacts of colonization on Indigenous people, preference may be given to Indigenous applicants with lived experience and knowledge directly relevant to the position. We encourage applications from those who wish to self-identify.
• Experience with Indigenous communities and organizations, and experience working with Elders and Knowledge Keepers.
• Knowledge and respect of Indigenous culture and traditions and understand the diversity of First Nations, Metis and Inuit cultures.
• Knowledge of the impacts of colonization on Indigenous people, including knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, Indigenous-specific racism and anti-racism.
• An undergraduate degree or a specialized post-secondary diploma in a related field, such as project management, with up to two years of related experience.
• Knowledge of BC’s health care system and experience working with physicians would be considered an asset.
• Specialized knowledge in a technical or professional discipline, preferably in a health, not-for-profit, adult education, government or business sector, and an ability to apply technical/professional concepts and applications to tasks or activities.
• Adept at balancing major concurrent tasks and projects and working with internal and external parties in a coordinated manner.
• Organized, resourceful and efficient with an outstanding attention to detail, particularly in matters related to internal and external communications.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills and the ability to represent the team and department with a high level of professionalism.
• Proven ability to respond to a wide variety of issues and deal with ambiguity and conflicting demands.
• Effective writing skills and proven ability to develop clear and concise communication.
• Demonstrated proficiency with PC based software, particularly Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook.

 Doctors of BC thanks all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Doctors of BC recognize the pervasive and ongoing harms of colonialism faced by Indigenous peoples and that these harms include the widespread systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in BC's health system. Physicians have a significant role to play in addressing the health disparities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients, and Doctors of BC is committed to continuing to advance reconciliation and address and eliminate racism in health care.

Doctors of BC celebrates diversity, challenges inequality and is committed to sustaining an inclusive and diverse community. We seek qualified applicants who share our commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion, and truth and reconciliation. We especially welcome applications from persistently and historically oppressed groups, including Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, gender-diverse, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. 

We acknowledge that the land Doctors of BC operates and supports physicians from is the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations whose historical relationship with the land continues today. For Doctors of BC, acknowledging the land is an expression of cultural humility that involves recognizing our commitment to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.