Project Manager, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity & Anti-racism

March 4 2025
Expected expiry date: March 17 2025
Industries Healthcare, social assistance
Categories Labor Relations - Legal, Organizational Development, Training - Development - Improvement
Toronto, ON • Full time

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At Ontario Health, we are committed to developing a strong organizational culture that connects and inspires all team members across the province. Our vision is that together, we will be a leader in health and wellness for all. Our mission is to connect the health system to drive improved and equitable health outcomes, experiences and value. How we work together is reflected through our five values: integrity, inspiration, tenacity, humility and care.

What Ontario Health offers:

Achieving your career goals is a priority to us. Benefits of working at Ontario Health may include the following based on employment type:

  • Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage from your first day

  • a health care spending or wellness spending account

  • a premium defined benefit pension plan

  • three personal days and two float days annually

  • three weeks' vacation to start (for individual contributors), increasing to four weeks after two years

  • career development opportunities

  • a collaborative values-based team culture

  • a wellness program

  • a hybrid working model

  • participation in Communities of Inclusion

Want to make a difference in your career? Consider this opportunity.

The Project Manager, Equity, Inclusion, Diversity, and Anti-Racism (EIDA-R), reporting to the Director, EIDA-R, plays an essential role leading the management and planning of projects and initiatives within Ontario Health. This role will oversee new and existing initiatives to support the implementation of the EIDA-R framework at Ontario Health.

Here is what you will be doing:

  • Manages projects of high priority, complexity, and long-term duration with provincial scope

  • Manages multiple projects and/or workstreams concurrently

  • Support Director to facilitate strategic and operational coordination and alignment of Ontario Health's equity framework with Ontario Health's strategic priorities, and program strategies

  • Collaborates effectively and efficiently with two teams, while being the primary lead on creating and managing timelines, and developing/adopting systems and tools for project management

  • Pulls diverse and interdisciplinary groups together, emphasizing interdependence, shared overall objectives, and the need for combined skills

  • Supports and promotes a cohesive team environment to foster high levels of engagement and morale

  • Monitors all project deliverables to ensure successful delivery within the constraints of scope, schedule, cost, and quality

  • Manages project risks and issues

  • Develops issues management and escalation process, project evaluation and monitoring, including the infrastructure to track key indicators

  • Leads complex interdependencies between projects and with key partners

  • Conducts regularly scheduled status reviews, provides business guidance, identifies deviations to work plan and implements corrective action

  • Develops and present material for review and information purposes using excellent written, verbal, and graphic communication skills, with ability to express complex concepts effectively

  • Is the key interface with Managers, Directors, executives, as well as internal and external stakeholders

  • Demonstrates exceptional tactical and critical strategic thinking

  • Performs cross-functional and/or other duties consistent with the job classification, as assigned or requested

  • Creates new or improves existing project and portfolio management standards (including processes and tools) and provides training and consultation on project management standards and best practices

Here is what you need to be successful:

Education and Experience

  • An undergraduate Degree in Health Sciences, Health Administration, Business Administration, or related field is required

  • A Master's in a related field and/or a Project Management Professional certification is an asset

  • 5-8 years of relevant Project Management experience leading multiple projects in a healthcare environment is required

  • Experience in managing large/complex operations and overseeing day-to-day operational activities

  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Project and Visio

Knowledge and Skills

  • Exceptional project management skills and experience leading multiple cross-functional projects concurrently, with a proven ability to move complex projects from start to finish through planning, development, implementation required

  • Experience in change management, process development and business/project management operations is preferred

  • Demonstrated knowledge of anti-oppression, equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism frameworks, and application in organizational settings

  • Lived experience addressing complex, equity, diversity, and human rights issues

  • Ability to successfully execute on multiple large-scale, complex, and high-risk projects

  • Ability to lead staff in a project environment

  • Collaborative leader, with the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team environment

  • Ability to communicate effectively with staff across the organization (including senior management), clinicians, external health service providers, community-based organizations, and customers/vendors

  • Ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders to establish trust, credibility, and respect

  • Must be passionate about leadership, organizational health, culture, values, and team development

  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a hands-on manner, adjusting to issues as needed in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment

  • Ability to prioritize and effectively anticipate and respond to issues as they arise

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to evaluate alternatives, find solutions, and make decisions

  • Excellent presentation and facilitation skills

  • Lived experience as a member of an Indigenous and/or equity-deserving community is an asset.

  • Ability to distil complex concepts by providing clarity to an executive level audience

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Location: Toronto, Ontario (currently hybrid; subject to change)

Employment Type:

Permanent Full time

Contract Length:

N/A

Salary Band:

Band 6

External Application Deadline Date:

March 17, 2025

All applicants must be a resident of Ontario to be considered for roles at Ontario Health.

Ontario Health encourages applications from candidates who are First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and urban Indigenous; Francophone; members of Black and racialized groups; 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; trans and nonbinary individuals; and people living with disabilities.

Ontario Health is an accessible employer, and we offer accommodation in all aspects of employment, including the recruitment process. If you require a disability related accommodation in order to participate in the recruitment process, please email careers@ontariohealth.ca and a member of the team will connect with you within 48 hours.

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