Diversity & Engagement Consultant (Community Builder)

Gateway Association

Gateway started in 1975 to address issues of exclusion and marginalization experienced by people with disabilities in Alberta. Gateway maintains an ‘authentic voice’ of lived experience in their ongoing advocacy and service provision. People with disabilities as well as other diversity groups and intersectionality are included in our leadership – and their lived experience continues to shape and inform our work. Gateway facilitates big change via small changes and works to ignite diversity advocacy in workplaces to advance inclusion culture.

Gateway is an Employment Resource Centre (ERC), Learning Resource Centre (LRC), Digital Inclusion Hub, and a Family Resource Centre (FRC) that helps make Alberta a more inclusive place to live and work.  

Gateway to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Hub (GEDI-Hub)

At the GEDI-Hub, we help Alberta workplaces across Alberta build capacity, confidence, and community to attract and engage diverse talent while developing their EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) capacity and sustainable workforce strategies.

The GEDI-Hub is a Gateway Association initiative fully funded by the Government of Canada and is offered at no cost to workplaces.

Overview

The GEDI-Hub is a new initiative in Canada that you will have the opportunity to directly influence through your expertise and experiences. This provides successful candidates with a unique employment experience, as you will have a role in shaping the project and the work you will be doing.

This position (Diversity & Engagement Consultant) provides an opportunity to engage employers and liaise with the business community to develop employer partnerships, assess and address workplace EDI needs and increase awareness of the value and sources of diversity talent in Alberta. Supporting service providers to connect with employers and facilitating workplace inclusion partnerships is a key outcome for this role. 

In this position, your expertise and lived experience will be valued, and you will be encouraged to leverage them to strengthen existing EDI approaches and innovate. Your work will directly contribute to building the capacity of Alberta’s employers and labour market.  

Inside the GEDI-Hub team, this position specializes in community building! You will be a business champion by developing networks to bring employers and service providers together. You will work alongside the Marketing & Communications Coordinator to plan and facilitate GEDI-Hub sponsored events (small and large-scale events)

Overall, this position provides an opportunity to give purpose to your passion for EDI, as you will not only be influencing but shaping trends. You will get to have important conversations with both large and small employers that may, in principle, be committed to EDI but not quite know how to put those commitments into practice.

In short, this work will feel good because you will be working towards something important – a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive Alberta. 

Direct Duties

Direct Duties: General

• Plan, collaborate, and facilitate small and large-scale events
• Facilitate workplace EDI knowledge and capacity building 
• Promote the business case for workplace EDI
• Support the GEDI-Hub team by organizing gatherings & team building activities
• Provide EDI information, tools, coaching, and support strategy development 
• Related administrative tasks: file keeping, information distribution, team meetings, etc. 
• Support employers with inclusive recruitment and onboarding strategies
• Develop networks and community build (micro, macro, and communities of practice)

Direct Duties: Employer Engagement   

• Identify and broker workplace inclusion partnerships (employers / service providers)  
• Conduct / curate workplace inclusion / culture assessments  
• Engage employers, promote GEDI-Hub services and supports  
• Prepare and co-facilitate sustainable workforce / diversity presentations for business  
• Promote our employer services and supports as well as target groups / services 

Direct Duties: Service Provider Engagement 

• Facilitate service development and promotion through story-telling  
• Develop working partnerships with employment / diversity service organizations  
• Build service provider capacity through EDI-based employer engagement workshops 
• Verbal and written communications with clients, team members, and employers  
• Facilitate workshops virtually & in-person

The Commitment

• Full-time position working 37.5 hours/week. We believe in work/life balance and are committed to keeping the workload in alignment with the true hours worked.

Reports To: Director, GEDI-Hub – Gateway to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Hub (GEDI-Hub)

Supervises: No direct reports

What You Can Bring to Gateway

• As you will be responsible for promoting diversity/inclusion, lived experiences as an equity deserving group are highly valued
• Experience with Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Planner, Teams, etc.), Canva, Zoom, and Adobe Acrobat is preferred
• Passion for contributing to a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive Alberta
• Community building, team building, and event planning experience
• Valid driver’s license, insurance, and personal vehicle
• 3 years (or more) experience in equity, diversity, and inclusion work (through employment and/or lived experience)
• Work, education, or lived experience with disability is considered an asset
• Reliable cell phone and internet
• Experience or collaboration with marketing is considered an asset
• Must reside within Calgary orthegreater surrounding areas

Gateway Value Proposition (Compensation & Benefits)

• A culture that focuses on reflective practice and building relationships with colleagues
• Commitment from leadership on learning anti-oppressive practices
• Benefits – 50/50 Employee/Employer Paid Premiums
• 15 Vacation Days, 9 Personal Days, 12 paid holidays, and a flexible, family-friendly schedule
• Starting Salary – $66,000.00
• Hybrid work (approximately 20% of work from the office, remaining 80% can be from the office, home, and/or community settings) – employees are expected to reside in and work from the location of hire primarily 
• Frequent questioning and exploring of how Gateway does its work (internally and externally)
• Work conditions include: occasional travel within Alberta (Edmonton and Red Deer to host events & team building), as well as both collaborative and independent work.

Our Application and Hiring Process and Timeline

• We will conduct virtual (Zoom) interviews between June 20th – June 30th, 2023
• All interviewed candidates will be notified of their status in the application process as it proceeds.
• While we’d like to connect with everyone, we simply don’t have the capacity to reply to all applications. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
• Competition Closing Date: Sunday, June 18th, 2023 at 5:00 PM
• Posting Type: Internal & External Candidates Considered
• Send a PDF Resume & Cover Letter to [email protected]
• Preferred Start Date: July 4th, 2023 (based on the successful candidate’s availability)
• We will review applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled

Inclusion and Accommodation

Gateway is committed to maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace where each employee can bring their authentic selves to work and be supported and valued for their contributions. We are an equal opportunity employer, which means all qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or other characteristics. Accommodations within our recruitment process and on the job are practiced and applied as needed. Please contact Human Resources at [email protected] or call 587-435-6553 for more information and to request any accommodations.