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About the Role

The Community Action Coordinator will work from Access Alliance’s east location - AccessPoint on Danforth Hub and a new Population Health Clinic. This role involves planning, implementing, and evaluating community engagement, peer outreach, and related initiatives with an anti-oppression health promotion focus. A key function is supporting clients with system navigation to access health, social, and community services.

Responsibilities

Work with marginalized community members to identify health priorities and implement strategies for better health, focusing on peer outreach and community ambassador models.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams and community groups to identify needs of immigrants and newcomers, developing or strengthening programming for underserved communities, families, and youth.
Utilize diverse community engagement and outreach strategies, including health education and community development.
Act as a resource for community groups by facilitating workshops, providing consultation, referrals, and information, and advocating for groups.
Mobilize community resources to enhance capacity for social change by developing self-help networks, building coalitions, and fostering leadership.
Maintain familiarity with community services and programs, sharing information and developing resources.
Develop community-based projects responsive to needs using a project management approach.
Generate stakeholder ownership in project planning, delivery, and evaluation.
Lead project implementation, including budget development, activity management, and providing guidance to staff, students, and volunteers.
Evaluate programs to ensure objectives are met and recommend operational changes based on community input.
Initiate, carry out, participate in, or monitor community-based health needs research.
Develop links with stakeholders to promote the Centre as a learning site.
Participate in committees and work groups.
Identify the need for or participate in the development of policies and protocols.
Develop an annual work plan with supervisor, identifying action plans and professional development needs.
Submit program statistics and reports on a timely basis.
Participate in the development of funding proposals.
Contribute to the vision, mission, values, principles, and strategic directions of the Centre.
Carry out other assigned duties.

Requirements

Graduate degree in Health Sciences, Social Work, Immigration and Settlement Services or related field, or a combination of relevant education and work experience.
Minimum 3 years of front-line experience in community engagement-based program coordination, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Thorough understanding of health promotion and community development principles.
Experience working with low-income and other priority groups.
Staff, students, and volunteers must be fully vaccinated.
A criminal background check will be conducted for this position.

Skills

Strong understanding of the social determinants of health and systemic issues affecting low-income, multi-lingual, and racialized communities.
Success in partnership development and funding proposal writing.
Experience managing project budgets.
Good interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills.
Ability to speak fluently in a language of one of the priority groups served (Arabic, Tigrinya, Dari/Pashto, Bengali or other languages).
Prior involvement in community-based research.
Experience mentoring staff, students, or volunteers.

Location

AccessPoint on Danforth Hub, 3079 Danforth Avenue & 44 Mobile Drive
May be required to work at any other Access Alliance site

Work Type

Permanent
Full-time

Experience Level

Minimum 3 years front-line experience

Education Level

Graduate degree in Health Sciences, Social Work, Immigration and Settlement Services or related field or a combination of relevant education and work experience

Salary/Compensations

$67,543 – $81,467

Benefits

Comprehensive group benefits coverage
Annual vacation entitlement
Cumulative sick leave entitlement
Employee assistance programs
HOOPP employer

About the Company

Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services (AAMHCS) is a Community Health Centre dedicated to improving health outcomes for the most vulnerable immigrants, refugees, and their communities.
The Centre envisions a future where Toronto’s diverse communities achieve health with dignity by providing direct services and addressing systemic inequities.
The Population Health Clinic is a neighborhood-based, interdisciplinary primary care model that brings health and community services together in one accessible location.
Developed through a partnership of Community Health Centres, the clinic is co-located within New Circles, providing a low-barrier pathway into the health system.
The clinic provides integrated, person-centred care to improve access to primary care, advance health equity, and support better health outcomes.
This is an opportunity to be part of an innovative model of community-connected care shaping the future of primary health care in East Toronto.

Equal Opportunity

We encourage applications from individuals who reflect the broad diversity of communities we work with, including those from racialized and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.
We encourage candidates to include their relevant pre-Canadian experience in their application as applicable.
In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.
Access Alliance encourages a scent-free environment. Employees, students, volunteers, and visitors are asked to refrain from wearing fragrances and other scented personal care products while at the Centre.