CARE Non-Student Research Assistant (Personalized Comfort Systems)

Concordia; Montreal; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Concordia seeks a Health, Safety & Wellness Coordinator to support in the ongoing development, implementation, and evaluation of our health, safety, and well-being strategy. This remote, part-time role reports to the Director, Wellness and fosters a healthy workplace culture across the organization.

The role includes creating wellness communications, coordinating trainings (including MHFA), managing SharePoint updates, and partnering with BGIS Balance teams to drive wellbeing initiatives.

Qualifications

• University degree in health sciences or related field is preferred.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building abilities.
• Knowledge of health, wellness and risk management.
• Ability to handle sensitive, confidential, high-risk situations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills.
• Organizational, documentation and reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Create health promotion and HSE communications for wellness programs.
• Coordinate SharePoint intranet redesign and maintenance.
• Organize virtual and in-person Well-Being sessions with partners.
• Respond to inquiries from team members and provide program information.
• Lead training initiatives, including MHFA and suicide prevention planning.
• Support development and execution of HSE training programs.
• Co-chair BGIS Balance Well-Being committee meetings.
• Monitor and report on wellness program effectiveness.
• Develop action plans and mitigation strategies from data.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Wellness program design

Health promotion

Risk management

Training delivery

Communication

Microsoft Office

Education

University degree in health sciences or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

CA$45.00–CA$55.00 hourly

Part-time

Remote

SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director, Wellness, the Health, Safety & Wellness Coordinator will assist and support in the continued development, implementation and evaluation of our health & safety and well-being strategic framework, policies, and programs. The Health, Safety & Wellness Coordinator will assist with health, safety and wellness initiatives aimed at promoting healthy and safe lifestyles by fostering a healthy workplace culture at the individual and organizational level.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Communication

• Create health promotion and HSE communications, including but not limited to, wellness/mental health moments, newsletter articles, social media posts, tool box talks, initiative communications.
• Work with Internal Communications to push out team member communications.
• Coordinates the revitalization of internal communication tool: SharePoint. This includes but is not limited to the redesigning, implementing and ongoing maintenance of the intranet site.
• Respond to inquiries and provide information to Team Members.
• Organize and facilitate virtual and in-person sessions and continuing education programs related to Well-Being with support from the Director, Wellness and various partners.
• Acts as a point of contact for all team member questions and concerns related to BGIS’ wellness program.
• Provide expert interpretation of Well-Being procedures and policies to team members and/or service providers, as required.

Training and Learning Sessions

• Coordinate and implement training; not limited to but including suicide prevention and MHFA (logistical planning, manage registration).
• Participate in and deliver mental health training.
• Facilitate sessions, including but not limited to, virtual well-being onboarding and movement breaks.
• Coordinate initiatives; speaker recruitment, logistical planning, manage registration.
• Support the development and execution of HSE training programs as required.
• Play a leadership role for BGIS Balance (actively promote, implement and participate).
• Acts as a change agent to ensure knowledge and know how is transferred to leaders / managers and actions are taken to ensure health and well-being and Wellness strategies are embedded into BGIS’ workplace culture, operations, and strategic goals.
• Act as a mentor for Wellness Placement Student(s)

Program Support

• Work with Director, Wellness to provide feedback and recommendations for future programming.
• Forms and fosters effective partnerships within the organization.
• Engage with regional BGIS teams to increase the understanding and importance of BGIS Balance initiatives.
• Support Global initiatives such as well-being survey, challenges, global safety and wellness week.
• Create metrics for wellness (for ex. mental health practitioner data) and assist as needed with other data analysis projects.
• Ensures Well-Being initiatives are carried out efficiently and are responding to the established objectives and priorities.
• Tracks, measures, and reports on the effectiveness of the Well-Being programs and initiatives.
• First line approver for monthly Fitness Reimbursements, including, creating monthly report for payroll.
• Develop support structures for managers and team members to move towards greater workplace well-being.
• Works with the Director, Wellness, Global Learning & Development teams and other partners to assist in the development and roll out of live and online training programs as well as identifying existing training resources.
• Conducts continuous research on health and wellness-related information topics and best practices.
• Assists in monitoring service delivery, identifying inefficiencies, and developing process improvements.
• Research industry trends.
• Co Chair BGIS Balance Well-Being committee meetings.
• Participate in activities with the HSE and Wellness teams.
• Assist with adhoc requests.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• University degree in health sciences, kinesiology, psychology and/or a Post-Graduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness or Health Promotion, Human Resources or related discipline is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated capacity in team member / stakeholder engagement, relationship building.
• Strong knowledge in the areas of health, wellness and risk management.
• Ability to effectively deal with situations that have no precedent and are sensitive, confidential and high-risk in nature.
• Effective interpersonal skills, especially communication (verbal / written) and influencing skills.
• Strong organizational skills, documentation and reporting skills.
• Self-motivated and proactive.
• Ability to design, deliver and evaluate training programs in a variety of health-related areas.
• Strong coaching and consulting skills and the ability to work with diverse client groups.
• Proven problem-solving skills, resourcefulness, independence, and collaboration.
• Able to distill data from a variety of sources, drawing conclusions, and develop action plans and mitigation strategies.
• High proficiency in Microsoft office (. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation

• Post-Graduate Certificate in Workplace Wellness or Health Promotion is strongly preferred.