Community Engagement Facilitator Jobs

Opportunity

MacEwan University’s Office of Research Services invites applications for a full-time continuing Community Engagement Facilitator. As a Community Engagement Facilitator, you will be the primary liaison between community partners, faculties and schools. You will serve as a central resource for faculties, schools and other areas, advancing opportunities to engage in productive and collaborative partnerships locally, nationally, and internationally. You will be a community liaison, encompassing professional duties. While it is not a regulated profession, you must adhere to professional, ethical standards and needs special knowledge and skills developed through a combination of research, education and training.

You will provide leadership and support learning opportunities about emergent teaching and research opportunities at MacEwan; maintain expertise in related areas such as knowledge mobilization and translation, community-based research, and the scholarship of teaching and learning; establish and maintain mutually beneficial relationships with key community partners by coordinating the community; engagement opportunities across the academy in support of teaching and research goals; liaise with faculties, schools, and the Office of Careers and Experience to integrate community engagement opportunities into the classroom, including developing WIL opportunities; coordinate with the Office of Research Services and Office of Communications and Marketing to maintain a database of community partners for internal and external reporting.

You will possess an understanding of the Canadian post-secondary system and the strategic importance of relationships with community and industry; an understanding of MacEwan’s strategic vision, Teaching Greatness; effective development and management of stakeholder relations with internal and external partners; demonstrated history of applying anti-oppression frameworks in research and practice to advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and Indigenization. You must have the ability to exercise judgment and maintain confidentiality and navigate complex systems and evolving priorities. As well as advanced written and verbal communication, presentation, facilitation, teamwork, collaboration, and consensus building. This position will also require occasional evening and weekend work.

You will hold a minimum of a master’s degree and at least five years of experience in higher education, with experience designing and delivering curricula.