CH&E Specialist (Evaluator) - Black Health Strategy-camh

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The Black Health Strategy team at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is seeking a full-time, contract (12 months) Evaluator to work as part of a provincial team that supports the spread and scale of AMANI: Mental Health & Substance Use Services for Black Youth (www.amaniservices.ca). AMANI is Canada’s first hospital-community partnership dedicated to improving mental health and substance use health care for Black youth. AMANI supports a provincial network of hospital and community-based partners working together to deliver culturally responsive, evidence-based care across Ontario. The Evaluator will support the advancement of organizational transformation and systems changes in policies, programs and services for Black youth and their families across Ontario. This position will report to the Senior Manager, Black Health Strategy, with day-to-day work assignments provided by the project management team, in collaboration with the Senior Consultant, Evaluation Sciences.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of evaluating health initiatives and/or community development work that centres the dismantling of anti-Black racism, anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice, collective impact, and culturally responsive care. The successful candidate will have a strong background in quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods evaluation, collective impact evaluation tools/frameworks, and a strong ability to measure and evaluate programs and services that demonstrate impact at the individual, family, organization, community and system level. You will possess strong competencies in project management and stakeholder engagement, and have a proven track record of collaboration with diverse Black communities from the onset of relationships through to implementation and evaluation phases. Excellent organizational, planning, and time management skills, and an ability to balance competing priorities to support projects with tight deadlines is required. You will also be committed to respectful, ethical and culturally responsive programming and aware of best practices related to engagement with Ontario’s diverse Black communities. This position is located in Toronto.

Responsibilities will include:

While all qualified candidates will be considered, applicants who are members of diverse Black communities and reflective of intersectional Black experiences (e.g., members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, faith and traditional spiritual communities, newcomers, etc.) are strongly encouraged to apply.