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MANDATE:

Reporting to the Executive Director, Leilani Shaw, the Health Navigation Researcher will complete the tasks outlined by the Health Navigator Tasks Force Action Plan, including creating onboarding and training materials for Indigenous health navigators, a glossary and report templates. They will also be asked to facilitate conversation spaces, document and store primary data collection and interpret themes and trends in the collected data in order to create an action plan. They will work closely with the Research Coordinator and the MIHAC Coordinator. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Creating a standardized operational practices 

• Create a standardized orientation document containing essential information about each participating organization.
• Produce organizational charts for health navigator teams within each organization.
• Develop a comprehensive glossary of standardized terms and vocabulary.
• Integrate the glossary into the standardized training materials to ensure consistency in terminology usage.
• Design simple, accessible report templates that are universally applicable across all participating organizations.
• Streamline reporting processes and ensure consistency in documentation practices.
• All tasks must be completed in the appropriate timeline co-created by the Health Navigator Task Force and the CIUSSS partners.

Data Collection, Organization, and Interpretation

• Conduct interviews and consultations, requiring regular onsite meetings to various participating organizations. 
• Ensures that data collection is done safely and that interviews are conducted and documented properly (OCAP and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) Principles)).
• Integrate information from interviews and consultations into standardized orientation and training materials for Indigenous Health Navigators.
• Facilitate Health Navigator Task Force meetings.
• Provide comprehensive meeting summaries for Health Navigator Task Force meetings, including documenting important discussions, decisions, and follow-up actions.

• Ensure the proper archiving of meeting summaries.

Teamwork

• Proactively communicate details of activities to the immediate supervisor. 
• Demonstrate respect for colleagues by responding to messages in a timely manner and arriving at required times for meetings and activities. 
• Be aware of the various policies and procedures in effect within the organization and contact administration if needed. 
• Encourage a work environment based on proactivity, respect, inclusion, listening, decolonial approaches, creativity and First Nations, Inuit and Metis practices and values.

HOURLY SALARY:

50-60$, depending on the experience

Required qualifications 

• Demonstrated experience in project management or facilitation. 
• Demonstrated experience in Indigenous communities or in the healthcare system.
• Strong knowledge of Indigenous realities and of the healthcare system. 
• Ability to work closely with others and build trusting relationships.
• Having a university degree in a field related to the position (Social Sciences, Social Work, Indigenous Studies, etc) is considered an asset. 

Please send your application to this address: emplois-jobs@reseaumtlnetwork.com

We highly encourage First Nations, Inuit and Metis persons to apply for this position.