Social Action Manager

Salary Range: $76,500.00 To $ Annually

POSITION DETAILS

Manager, Social Action

Program:

Contract:

Permanent, Full time; 35 hours/week

Location:

128A Sterling Road and a home-based office as required

$76,500 - $102,102 Management
Final date to receive applications:

File Number:

SA #25-26 with cover letter and resume

E-Mail:

Mail:

HR, 355 Church Street, Toronto ON M5B 0B2

Web:

Family Service Toronto (FST) helps people face a wide variety of life challenges. For over 100 years, we have worked with individuals, families and communities destabilized by precarious mental health and/or socioeconomic circumstances, to achieve greater resilience, stability, and equity.

We do this through direct service work of intervention and prevention; research and evaluation; and system-level work through partnerships including social action, advocacy, community-building. FST is grounded in the lived reality of service beneficiaries and diverse communities, and we celebrate justice, equity, and inclusion.

We’re proud of our people and culture! We are constantly evolving what we do and how we do it. Our work is grounded in the lived experience of the clients and the community. We celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and excellence. We are agile, learning and always willing to try new things.

FST hosts the National and Ontario Campaign 2000:
End Child and Family Poverty in Canada, which are broad coalitions of community organizations committed to community engagement, public education, research and policy change to eradicate poverty in Canada.

FST’s Social Action (SA) department focuses on driving system-level change for more just and supportive communities at the local, provincial and national levels. Our community building, research, public education and advocacy work is focused on influencing the systems and institutions that shape the lives of all community members and we’re looking for a Manager, Social Action to advance innovation and provide strategic guidance in these areas.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategy and Innovation/National Director, Campaign 2000, the Manager, Social Action will play a key role in shaping and delivering on the department’s goals. A self-starter with a bias towards innovation and action, the Manager, Social Action will help to solve public policy challenges with respect to social and economic issues that affect individuals, families and communities locally, provincially and nationally.

The Manager, Social Action will have a community development ethos and experience inspiring a range of diverse stakeholders to work collaboratively on shared goals. The Manager, Social Action will identify and foster strategic relationships, track trends in policy, provide strategic advice to the senior leadership and coach a small dynamic team of professionals while helping to advancing a culture of social action and advocacy throughout the organization and community social services sector in Toronto and nationally.

This is a new position within the organization, and responsibilities may evolve based on organizational needs, performance assessments, and role development.

Responsibilities

Planning

• Proactively identify issues and risks that affect diverse people living in poverty in Canada. Work collaboratively to find community development and policy solutions to address them.
• Participate in the development of the organization’s annual operational plan and budget.
• Monitor achievement of the department’s operational plan, reporting results as required.
• Oversee applications and reports to funders, ensuring high quality documents that meet funder requirements and timelines.
• Participate in planning for operational business improvements and new organizational projects, identifying and responding to opportunities as they arise.

Public Policy Research and Communications

• Facilitates engagement, consultation and collaboration with a diverse range of people including but not limited to community partners, government representatives, academics, and key stakeholders to ensure policy and program approaches are accountable, and rooted in the needs, experience and expertise of those most impacted.
• Utiliz…