Manager, Violence and Abuse Prevention and Justice

Pauktuutit; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An Inuit women's organization in Ottawa is seeking a Manager to lead the Policy & Research team. The role involves overseeing projects focused on violence and abuse prevention and managing departmental initiatives. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in a similar environment, strong critical thinking and communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders. A university degree in a relevant field is required. This full-time position supports the empowerment of Inuit women across Canada.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Policy and Research, preferably in a not-for-profit organization.
• Experience in leading teams and managing projects within relevant fields.
• Ability to build strong relationships within teams and with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead Policy & Research team and manage initiatives in violence and abuse prevention.
• Coaching policy analysts and overseeing project management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and maintain effective communication across the organization.

Skills

Collaboration

Communication

Critical thinking

Project management

Fluency in English

Education

University or college degree in business planning, community development, sociology, gender studies, or equivalent

Tools

MS Office Suite

MS Excel

MS Access

Job description

WHO WE ARE

Join our team today and make a difference for the future of Inuit Women

Grounded in Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Pauktuutit elevates the voices of Inuit women across Canada and supports their health, economic stability, safety, and access to justice through culture‑specific policy advocacy, dedicated programs and strategic partnerships. By engaging and collaborating with Inuit women, communities, and organizations, we strive to empower Inuit women, girls and gender‑diverse Inuit, ensuring they have greater opportunities to thrive.

Pauktuutit, as the national voice of Inuit women in Canada, has a key role to play in ensuring the use of a gender‑equality lens in policies impacting Inuit women, girls and gender‑diverse Inuit. We promote greater progress in priority areas, across health and well‑being, violence and abuse prevention, safety, and social and economic development. Our ability to do so depends heavily on partnership across government, key funders, Inuit community groups and other stakeholder organizations.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Director, the Manager will lead both the day‑to‑day operations of the team within a specific portfolio and drive the initiatives to support the overall goals of the organization. The role requires considerable skill in relationship building, including the ability to develop and foster partnerships and to collaborate effectively with community groups, agencies, and other stakeholders. The manager works directly with the Director and across the policy and research team to coordinate, and manage initiatives within the portfolio.

The role collaborates with the Director to support departmental wide initiatives. Critical to the success of this role is ability to collaborate with the leadership to brings best practices, and to support planning and execution of the department plans and budgets to track and manage performance against set priorities.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Provides leadership to the Policy & Research team and owns project and department specific work‑related supervision of the team within violence and abuse prevention and justice area.
• Provide day‑to‑day coaching, direction, and leadership to policy analysts; includes real time management or resources performance management and development, facilitating team meetings, escalation resolution and response.
• Manage resources, processes, and procedures to ensure effective management of workplans, budgets and on time delivery.
• Monitor expenditures within approved budgets for all violence and abuse prevention and justice files.
• Maintain relevant financial documentation for relevant projects in compliance with approved internal financial procedures and controls.
• Works with Policy Analysts to coordinate unit reporting with input from various staff members, ensuring quality of information and format for presentation to key stakeholders including senior leadership and funders.
• Acts as a central resource to the Policy and Research team on the violence and abuse prevention and justice files and collaborates across the organization to create presentations or speaking notes, including strategic planning, committees and advisory groups, partnership meetings, conferences.
• Acts as the central resource to the Policy and Research team on the violence and abuse prevention and justice files to track deliverables.
• supports the Director in tracking the strategic plan updates, organizational goals, and objectives

• Supports report and proposal management including reading/ editing some of the reports or proposals. And partners with the Finance Business Planning and Enablement Manager to ensure consistency and alignment to broader organizational needs
• Responds to requests that fall outside of Pauktuutit’s core mandate areas of Health, Socio‑Economic Development; Violence & Abuse Prevention and Justice, to gather information, develop a position in conjunction with the Director and Finance Business Planning and Enablement, in order to help the Director, bring forward potential to the Leadership Team.
• Supports process management to enable efficiency and effectiveness in the Policy and Research team and ensures collaboration between Policy and Research and the rest of the organization. Organizes and creates standards, best practices across Policy and Research.
• Supports the Director of Policy and Advocacy on an as needed basis including providing support to the policy and research business during short term absences.

Please note other duties may be assigned as needed to meet the mandate and evolving needs of the organization.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Core Competencies

• Collaboration: Works cooperatively with others to achieve organizational goals. Meets personal professional commitments to the group and supporting others as required, to achieve organizational goals. It includes appreciating and respecting diverse and varying perspectives and putting the business goals ahead of personal preferences.
• Communication: The ability to listen, speak, explain, persuade, and influence others by expressing thoughts and views concisely, effectively, and appropriately in a range of different settings to hold attention and achieve desired impact. Excellent presentation skills, uses plain language; shares information and takes an open‑mind approach to influence decision making.
• Innovation orientation: Intellectual curiosity and open‑mindedness ready to question existing systems, business models, and processes and devise innovative Requires an inventive approach to looking at business problems and opportunities.
• Adaptability: Constructively adapts style in the face of ambiguity; strives to constantly learn and improve, challenge the status Approaches new situations with an open mind, versatility, and agility. Demonstrates a positive attitude, resilience, and openness to changes.
• Integrity and Ethics: Upholds social, ethical, norms and values that Pauktuutit holds important- demonstrates commitment to championing Pauktuutit’s organizational policies and values; behaves consistently, and is open, trustworthy and acts without consideration of personal gain.

Functional Competencies:

• Strategy - Critical thinking and ability to synthesize information and decide on actions to deliver on strategic priorities; Strong investigative, analytical, and interpretative skills
• Outstanding communication and collaboration: constantly in conversation with key organizational stakeholders and leaders, and open‑minded approach to influence decision Strong group process, communication, and consultative skills.

Functional Competencies:

• A Policy and Research Generalist with strength in planning, analytics and writing with ability to formulate data‑driven recommendations; ability to dig into data, reach out to subject matter experts, operate from the perspective of doing the best for Inuit Women and suggesting opportunities for improvement.
• Interpersonal: ability to build consensus within groups needs; demonstrates a willingness to learn and ask for help; engages in growth and development activities in collaboration with departmental leaders; Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and maintain a strong presence interacting with senior leaders.
• Organization: ensures all relevant information is recorded and is easily accessible; follows protocols and procedures. Ability to pay close attention to detail while under tight timelines.
• Time management: balances multiple tasks and large volume of duties; prioritizes; maintains a schedule/calendar effectively; takes initiative to ensure deadlines are met and work is completed
• Ability to respond to Pauktuutit employees needs and business priorities, provide value through recognizing current and future needs and then deliver solutions to optimize opportunities and minimize risk.

Administration:

• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite, and materials tracking systems including, including MS EXCEL and Access

Education:

• A university or college degree in business planning, community development, sociology, gender studies, and/ or other equivalent combination of education and recent relevant work

Experience:

• 5+ years of prior experience in Policy and Research, planning, reporting &
• Experience leading teams
• Experience preferably in a similar environment and preferably a not-for-profit organization
• Experience as a policy generalist with general understanding of Pauktuutit’s priority mandates of
• Health; Socio‑Economic Development; Violence and Abuse Prevention and Justice.
• Ability to develop positive working relationships within a tight‑knit team and build trusted relationships across all levels – stakeholders include, departmental leadership, consultants, funders, and community interest groups
• Self‑directed with high business acumen, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills
• Experience working with Inuit and knowledge current political, social, and economic conditions of Inuit is an asset
• Strong relationship building skills with personal credibility and high impact communication and presentation skills, with extensive experience with senior executive interaction.
• Strong project management; consultation; resource planning and budgeting skills
• Ability to travel to remote communities as required
• Language – Fluency in English; working knowledge of Inuktut (oral and written) is