Healthy Built Environment Community Engagement Lead

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $45.46 - $65.35 / hour
Job Summary

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Boston Bar on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities. We have an exciting new opportunity for a Healthy Built Environment Community Engagement Lead to join our team! This role is a Regular Full-Time opportunity located in the Tri-Cities, B.C.

As the Healthy Built Environment Community Engagement Lead, you will provide strategic leadership and community engagement on aspects of built environment factors including active transportation and neighbourhood design. You will develop partnerships with internal/external partners including local governments to support issues related to the built environments and healthy communities.

You will work closely with these partners on their community planning, design and engagement processes to ensure inclusion of health, climate action and community resiliency considerations are addressed.

To join our team, ideally, we are looking for you to have:

• Master's degree in Urban Studies, Community Engagement, Public Health or other health related discipline.
• Five (5) years recent related, community/partner engagement experience in a public health environment that includes program management and evaluation, policy development and evaluation and knowledge translation.

Come work with us!

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care.

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, and we value diversity in the workforce and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Reporting to the Manager, Environmental Health Services, the HBE Community Engagement Lead identifies and leverages health promotion initiatives in the Fraser Health (FH) region through the promotion of healthy and resilient built environments. The Lead provides strategic leadership, community engagement and subject matter expertise on all aspects of built environment factors including the natural environment, food, housing, active transportation and neighbourhood design that impact population health.

Working in close partnership with the Medical Health Officer, Environmental Health and other applicable public health teams, the HBE Community Engagement Lead provides leadership on the inclusion of health, climate action and community resiliency considerations within community planning, design, and engagement processes. This includes implementing initiatives across FH and conducting monitoring, reporting, evaluation and training activities related to this work.

The HBE Community Engagement Lead builds partnerships with internal/external partners including local, regional and provincial governments and community partners such as health authorities and nongovernmental organizations on issues related to the built environment and healthy communities. The position leads the creation of health public policy as it relates to the built environment and ensures all policies and strategies are in alignment with FH strategic priorities.

The Lead works in partnership with the Consultant, Healthy Communities and oversees assigned teams that may include staff from FHA regional teams and assigned Environmental Health Officers to develop and implement strategies and support partner planning and decision making.

Responsibilities

1. Works with community partners to identify key health and social issues for action, community assets to address priority concerns, and a plan to achieve population health goals and expected outcomes. Initiates collaborative projects and leads community discussions where appropriate. Identifies opportunities to integrate the health lens into planning decisions that affect the healthy built environment.
2. Develops and maintains strategic partnerships with internal/external partners including planning and developing engagement sessions; coordinating and facilitating dialogue between partners to promote a collaborative relationship in working towards a common vision of healthier and vibrant communities.
3. Works to promote best practices including development and promotion of effective protective policies, adoption of standards in data collection, analysis, reporting, support for legislative change, and supporting other internal resources within FH which are working to reduce chronic disease, prevent injury, promote active living, and create healthy built environments.
4. Develops evidence based healthy built environment related education programs and awareness campaigns to a variety of target audiences or end users within the program/service and its internal and external partners, to inform and/or effect behavioural changes; evaluates effectiveness of educational programs; develops and/or sources related materials as required, in collaboration with multi-disciplinary team members.
5. Plans and conducts program related quantitative and qualitative research assessments and reviews; compiles, assembles and analyzes data related to the program, including designing the research tools needed to carry out the research, i.e. surveys, as well as related materials, in collaboration with the program team and its partners.
6. Provides work direction to team members assigned to specific HBE projects and provides technical assistance and advice to Environmental Health Officers supporting HBE project work to ensure consistent interpretation and application of policy, guidelines and directives and effective knowledge translation.
7. Leads the development and implementation of healthy built environment designated projects and initiatives. Carries out project plans consistent with standard project methodologies to ensure successful and coordinated completion of project components to foster health communities across the Fraser Health (FH) region.
8. Monitors project progress according to project work plan to ensure user requirements, regulatory requirements and other related requirements are met; ensures issues are reviewed, resolved, or escalated to appropriate level to meet project deliverables, user requirements, and projected timelines.
9. Contributes to and provides input on the implementation of effective processes by assessing project risks and identifying risk mitigation strategies.
10. Provides recommendations for program resource allocation that ensures HBE strategic priorities are being considered using evidence-based data and research.
11. Prepares built environment related reports/documentation/presentations including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations, in collaboration with the designated team and its partners.
12. Develops project/policy/evaluation models/frameworks and contributes to the evaluation work as required, in collaboration with the PPH team and its partners.
13. Seeks out and writes research and funding grants for identified healthy built environment /built environment projects, as applicable.
14. Works with external contractors engaged to do focused project work within the Healthy Built Environment program portfolio; supports selection of vendors and verifies completion of work and monitors outcomes and deliverables of the contract.
15. Develops communications and education tools for relevant population and public health areas/issues, in collaboration with multi-disciplinary team members; delivers presentations to lay or professional audiences.
16. Works with communication partners to reach target populations with consistent messages thereby increasing the awareness of modifiable risk factors to reduce chronic disease and best practices related to the built environment and health recommendations.
17. Represents Fraser Health on built environment and community planning committees, working and advisory groups.
18. Collaborates with national, provincial, and regional partners in establishing key messages and common approaches to healthy communities’ prevention campaigns and initiatives.
19. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Master's degree in Urban Studies, Community Engagement, Public Health or other health related discipline. Five (5) years recent related, community/partner engagement experience in a public health environment that includes program management and evaluation, policy development and evaluation and knowledge translation, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

COMPETENCIES:

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities

• Strong knowledge of population and public health in BC including public health core functions.
• Strong knowledge of community planning and design principles and community engagement.
• Knowledge of legislation affecting regional community and land use planning policy interests.
• Demonstrated ability to build cooperative and consultative partnerships with senior level staff at both internal and external partners.
• Knowledge of research methodologies including qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Ability to review and interpret applicable reports.
• Ability to critically analyze and synthesize complex evidence base into summary reports.
• Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications.
• Ability to teach, coach and mentor.
• Ability to speak in public, make presentations and address community groups.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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