Manager, Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism Strategy and Practice

🕒 May 15

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Doctors of BC

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1900

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Non-profit • Education • Healthcare Insurance

Doctors of BC is a professional non-profit association representing physicians in British Columbia that provides advocacy, negotiated benefits, practice supports, education, and resources to help doctors deliver high-quality patient-centered care. It offers services including pay and contract guidance, billing and audits support, insurance and benefits administration, physician health programs, continuing medical education, digital health policy engagement, and member-exclusive programs and discounts. Doctors of BC also partners with government and health authorities on policy, quality improvement, and Indigenous reconciliation efforts.

📋 Description

• Provides strategic and practice leadership for ISAR and Cultural Safety, translating organizational priorities into frameworks, standards, and guiding approaches that shape work across the organization. • Leads and supports a team responsible for delivering JCC workplans and organizational initiatives, including system-level work, events and learning, employee programs, and governance and committee support. • Establishes direction, priorities, and expectations for team deliverables, ensuring alignment with organizational commitments and provincial strategies. • Ensures coherence, quality, and consistency of ISAR and Cultural Safety work across diverse initiatives, balancing strategic intent with practical application. • Serves as an advisor to leadership, governance bodies, and committees, influencing direction through expert guidance and evidence-informed recommendations. • Identifies systemic risks, gaps, and opportunities, advising on strategies to strengthen organizational and system-level impact. • Interprets and mobilizes emerging research, policy, and leading practices to continuously evolve approaches. • Provides leadership, coaching, and development to team members, enabling them to effectively design and deliver initiatives within their scope. • Builds and sustains trust-based relationships with Indigenous and system partners to inform, guide, and align the organization’s work, including the Ministry of Health, Health Authorities, FNHA, and Métis Nation BC. • Provides strategic guidance and support to ISAR CS governance and advisory bodies, including the JCC ISAR Steering Committee and Indigenous Guiding Circle.

🎯 Requirements

• Must be of Indigenous ancestry (Turtle Island—First Nations, Métis , or Inuit). • Deep knowledge of the impacts of colonialization on Indigenous people in health contexts, including knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, Indigenous-specific racism, and anti-racism. • Knowledge and respect of Indigenous approaches to health and wellbeing, cultural traditions, ceremonies, protocols, and traditional wellness practices. • Must understand the diversity of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultures. • Experience and expertise in team building, staff development and coaching grounded in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive principles and practices. • Completed graduate university degree AND/OR recognized professional designation in a specialized field, AND up to six years of progressive and related experience; OR having an equivalent level of related work experience in-lieu of post-secondary education. • Previous experience leading and facilitating ISAR, Cultural Safety, and Reconciliation initiatives in a complex organization. • Strategic and tactical problem-solving approaches, and the ability to convert strategic objectives into tangible action plans and results. • Demonstrated relationship-building skills; solid judgment; critical thinking skills; a sense of teamwork and community; ability to handle multiple tasks; highly organized. • Demonstrated expertise with key partner relations, especially related to helping diverse groups to develop and work together towards shared goals and improved collective impact. • Fundamental knowledge of the organization and its interrelated components within the BC healthcare system. • Excellent writing skills and proven ability to develop clear concise and comprehensive reports, executive briefing notes, reports, and presentations for diverse audiences. • Excellent judgment in setting priorities, proactively identifying issues and determining action required when working under pressure and deadlines. • Proven ability to work with diverse groups of individuals who have varying interests. • Superior interpersonal, oral communication, and relationship management skills. • Experience supervising and managing teams in complex systems and working collaboratively with senior and executive management. • Capacity to self-manage a varied, flexible work schedule to meet the needs of participating physicians, while ensuring appropriate work-life balance and the need to meet project deadlines and deliverables. • Must be willing to travel occasionally as required and work outside regular business hours on occasion.