Advisor, Community Outreach and Programs

Queen's University; Kingston; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Queen's University, through the Yellow House Student Centre for Equity & Inclusion, seeks a dedicated professional to design and implement programs supporting QTBIPoC students. The role involves collaborating with student staff and clubs to elevate voices, and shaping initiatives that foster inclusive campus culture.

The position engages with stakeholders to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion are embedded in operations, planning, and delivery of workshops, events, and experiential learning

Qualifications

• Advises and consults with stakeholders to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion are considered in departmental operations and planning.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements programs, services, workshops, and events to increase visibility for underrepresented students.
• Plans and evaluates non-traditional learning activities including placements, mini-stream offerings, exchanges, and other experiential learning opportunities.
• Researches, analyzes, and collaborates on approaches that support goals for equity, diversity, and inclusion of students.

Responsibilities

• Advise and consult with stakeholders to ensure ED&I principles are considered in all aspects of departmental operations and program planning.
• Develop, coordinate, and implement planning and delivery of programs, services, workshops, and events to raise visibility for underrepresented students.
• Research and refine programs and approaches that support ED&I goals for students.

Job description

A Brief Overview The Yellow House Student Centre for Equity & Inclusion team is committed to creating comfortable and accountable spaces for students who identify as Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and/or as People of Colour (QTBIPoC) to feel safe, to create community, to be empowered, to celebrate their identity and to flourish. We seek to engage students in initiatives that actively dismantle oppressive, racist and colonial ideologies and practices.

Reporting to the Director, the incumbent in this role designs and implements programs that help QTBIPoC students feel seen, heard and prioritized on campus. They work directly with student staff at the Yellow House and more widely with students and student clubs across campus to co-design this work.

In order to address the unique needs and concerns of equity-deserving student communities, this opportunity is open only to qualified individuals who self-identify as Queer, and/or Trans, and/or Black, and/or Indigenous and/or people of colour (QTBIPoC). This initiative follows the provisions of a special program and special employment as outlined by the Ontario Human Rights Commission https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/your-guide-special-programs-and-human-rights-code.

We hope to attract candidates who are passionate about the Yellow House mandate, who care about advancing a culture of equity and inclusion at Queen's, and who are committed to uplifting the voices of QTBIPoC students on this campus through centre initiatives. If this sounds like you, please share your application with us!

This position advises and consults with stakeholders to ensure principles of equity, diversity, and inclusion are considered in all aspects of departmental operations, and program planning. This position develops, coordinates, and implements the planning and delivery of programs, services, workshops, and events to increase visibility for underrepresented students, and promote diversity and inclusion. This position plans, develops, implements, and evaluates non-traditional learning activities including placements, community-based projects, 'mini-stream' offerings, exchanges, and other experiential learning opportunities. This position also researches, analyzes, recommends, collaborates on, refines, and implements programs and approaches that support goals for equity, diversity, and inclusion of students.

The schedule for this position requires the incumbent to work evenings and weekends.