Director, Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism & Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

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THE JOB: Director, Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism & Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

The starting salary range falls within the minimum to mid-point of the salary range.

Starting Salary Range: $141,029 - $176,286

The Director, Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism (ISAR) & Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) provides strategic leadership and oversight for Doctors of BC’s ISAR and Cultural Safety, Truth and Reconciliation, and EDI portfolios, ensuring the organization advances its commitments to addressing systemic racism, advancing equity, and strengthening culturally safe and inclusive practices across the organization and health system. The Director provides leadership and oversight to two leaders, setting strategic direction, providing guidance, and ensuring accountability for the development and delivery of organization-wide strategies, initiatives, and workplans. This role ensures alignment of ISAR, Truth and Reconciliation, and EDI priorities across Doctors of BC, the Joint Collaborative Committees, and organizational governance and advisory bodies, including the Board, advisory committees, and employee working groups, while advancing commitments outlined in the Physician Main Agreement and other provincial frameworks. The Director builds and sustains strategic relationships with Indigenous leaders, organizations, physician leaders, and health system partners to support shared priorities, strengthen collaboration, and advance meaningful system-level change.

The Director provides strategic advice and leadership on risk management, policy alignment, organizational change, data-informed evaluation, and best practices related to Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism, Cultural Safety, Truth and Reconciliation, and EDI, ensuring these principles are meaningfully embedded across operations, programs, and decision-making. Through mentorship and leadership of the ISAR and EDI team, the Director strengthens organizational capability, supports continuous improvement, and acts as a trusted strategic advisor to senior leadership and committees, advancing Doctors of BC’s long-term commitment to equity, reconciliation, and anti-racist practice across the health system.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

Leading Through People (A):

• Proven ability to guides, coach and motivates others by assessing developmental needs and engages team members in projects that challenge their skills and abilities.
• Provides opportunities for others to learn from experts in develop.
• Ability to listens attentively and builds rapport quickly.
• Addresses and confronts issues and inappropriate behaviors in a timely and respectful way.
• Consults with and informs team in a timely manner before decisions that would impact them are made. Regularly provides constructive feedback and recognition to team members regarding job performance.

Leading with Drive (A):

• Fosters a team mentality that acknowledges the importance of visions, goals, and deadlines. In addition to this, clearly articulates vision and end goals, encouraging questions until clarity is gained.
• Uses clear reasoning and rational explanations to subtly yet resolutely influence other’s viewpoints.
• Effectively communicates information and expectations when delegating responsibilities.

Leading to Deliver (A):

• Makes decisions based upon relevant analysis of data and consistently monitors progress towards goals.
• Sets realistic service expectations within given constraints and states team expectations clearly to ensure responsibility and accountability is understood.
• Maintains composure and remains level-headed, focused on results, and accountable in all situations. Evaluates progress and involves team in analyzing strengths and weaknesses in performance.
• Meets all deadlines, quality standards and other requirements through successfully focusing the team to follow detailed plans and meet set goals.
• Ensures decision making aligns with organizational values, goals and strategies.

Leading Through Vision (A):

• Reflects on successes and failures to extract potential lessons about self, others and the organization. Focuses on strategic thinking to ensure the path of the desired vision is realistic and constantly monitored to ensure progress.
• Immerses self and team in new ideas to ensure continuous learning and progress, encouraging the team to take risks and seize opportunities.
• Evaluates progress and continually develops improvements.
• Participates in change programs by planning implementation activities and feedback systems with other change champions.

Doctors of BC Team Member: Approaches work with a collaborative spirit recognizing we are better together. Embraces change, provides excellence in service and is accountable for their results and helping others achieve theirs. Does the right thing, not the easy thing. Speaks openly and honestly to tackle tough challenges and enrich relationships. Balances hard work with fun and is genuinely friendly and committed to other’s wellbeing.

WHAT YOU BRING

• We are striving to build a diverse team that has lived experience with equity, diversity and inclusion, we especially welcome applications from persistently and historically oppressed groups, including Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, gender-diverse, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+. It is your choice whether to self-identify, we will hold your application in confidence, sharing it only with the hiring panel.
• Deep knowledge of the impacts of colonization on Indigenous people in health contexts, including knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, Indigenous-specific racism, and anti-racism.
• Experience and expertise in team building, staff development and coaching grounded in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive principles and practices.
• Completed graduate university degree AND/OR recognized professional designation in a specialized field, AND up to ten years of progressive and related experience; OR having an equivalent level of related work experience in-lieu of post-secondary education.
• Previous experience leading and facilitating equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives in a complex organization.
• Strategic and tactical problem-solving approaches, and ability to convert strategic objectives into tangible action plans and results.
• Demonstrated relationship-building skills; solid judgment; critical thinking skills; a sense of teamwork and community; ability to handle multiple tasks; highly organized.
• Demonstrated expertise with key partner relations, especially related to helping diverse groups to develop and work together towards shared goals and improved collective impact.
• Fundamental knowledge of the organization and it’s interrelated components within the BC healthcare system
• Excellent writing skills and proven ability to develop clear concise and comprehensive reports, executive briefing notes, reports, and presentations for diverse audiences.
• Excellent judgment in setting priorities, proactively identifying issues and determining action required when working under pressure and deadlines.
• Excellent consultation and meeting facilitation skills
• Proven ability to work with diverse groups of individuals who have varying interests.
• Superior interpersonal, oral communication and relationship management skills.
• Experience supervising and managing teams in complex systems and working collaboratively with senior and executive management.
• Experience and commitment to team building, staff development and coaching
• Capacity to self-manage a varied, flexible work schedule to meet the needs of participating physicians, while ensuring appropriate work-life balance and the need to meet project deadlines and deliverables.
• Must be willing to travel occasionally as required and work outside regular business hours on occasion.

Doctors of BC thanks all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.

Doctors of BC recognize the pervasive and ongoing harms of colonialism faced by Indigenous peoples and that these harms include the widespread systemic racism against Indigenous peoples in BC's health system. Physicians have a significant role to play in addressing the health disparities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients, and Doctors of BC is committed to continuing to advance reconciliation and address and eliminate racism in health care.

Doctors of BC celebrates diversity, challenges inequality and is committed to sustaining an inclusive and diverse community. We seek qualified applicants who share our commitments to equity, diversity and inclusion, and truth and reconciliation. We especially welcome applications from persistently and historically oppressed groups, including Indigenous (First Nations, Métis or Inuit) peoples, members of racialized communities, persons with disabilities, women, gender-diverse, and persons who identify as 2SLGBTQ+.

We acknowledge that the land Doctors of BC operates and supports physicians from is the traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations whose historical relationship with the land continues today. For Doctors of BC, acknowledging the land is an expression of cultural humility that involves recognizing our commitment to support the provision of culturally safe care to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people in BC.