About Us
At the Department of Opportunities and Social Development (OSD), we are a large and diverse department providing a broad portfolio of programs and services including Child and Family Wellbeing (CFW), Employment Support Services (ESS), Income Assistance (IA), Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and the Disability Support Program (DSP).
The Disability Support Program (DSP) is committed to fostering innovative ways to empower individuals with disabilities to pursue their vision of a fulfilling life. We are on a journey to implement international best practices that uphold human rights and choice to enhance the way people engage with their communities. We envision Nova Scotia as a place where people with disabilities can choose the life they want to live, in communities that are welcoming, inclusive, and supportive.
A life where individuals can build authentic relationships, explore their interests, and achieve their full potential as valued citizens in their community.
About Our Opportunity
As the DSP program officer, you will have a role in supporting the Nova Scotia Human Rights Remedy transformation, a five-year, legally binding agreement to build a more inclusive and equitable disability support system. You will assist with several critical Remedy projects that directly shape how services are delivered across the province. You will manage projects from start to finish, collaborate with third party organizations, post-secondary institutions and other government departments on activities that advance the Remedy directives.
As the program officer, you will be responsible for coordinating the activities of the Innovation Panel, a team of internal and external members whose responsibility is to review and make recommendations on individual funding proposals for disability support funding. As the program officer, you will be the main point of contact for panel enquiries, documenting panel decisions and facilitating executive director approval of their recommendations for implementation, coordinating panel meetings and presenters, managing confidential agreements pertaining to the panel and coordinating with the DSP Regional Hub leadership team to manage presentations.
You will also provide coordination support for implementing the Disability Support Sector Workforce Strategy. You will include project managing initiatives related to training, safety and recruitment across the disability support sector. This will range from professional development workshops (, safety training) to post-secondary credentials (, micro credentials, certificate/diploma programs and master level programs). Activities will include research, engagement of partners, development and management of contracts, project management and evaluation of results to inform future planning.
More broadly, you will supporting other program areas as required. Specifically, you will support the DSP Regional Hub leadership team to carry out operational activities such as the ongoing delivery of Regional Advisory Councils and the Provincial Advisory Council. In this role, this may include research and analysis of documents, creation and management of spreadsheets, and preparation of plain language briefing materials and collaboration with internal government partners and external community partners.
Primary Accountabilities
In this role, you will:
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