Senior Manager Policy and Advocacy

Role:

Senior Manager Policy and Advocacy

Reports to:

Director, Policy & Advocacy

Location

Remote/hybrid

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Director of Policy and Advocacy, the Senior Manager will lead both the day-to-day operations of the policy and advocacy team and implement policy strategies to support the overall goals of the organization. Reporting directly to the Director of Policy and Advocacy, this role manages stakeholder relationships, develops policy positions and supports government relations and advocacy initiatives.

. Critical to the success of this role is ability to collaborate with the leadership to bring best practices, and to support planning and execution of the department plans and budgets to track and manage performance against set priorities.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides strategic advice to senior leadership on emerging policy issues and opportunities
• Provide day-to-day coaching, direction, and leadership to policy managers; includes real-time manage-ment, resources performance management and development, facilitating team meetings, escalation res-olution, and response.
• Actively participate in one-on-one meetings with
• Maintain relevant financial documentation for relevant projects in compliance with approved internal financial procedures and controls.
• Works with Policy Managers and finance team to coordinate unit reporting with input from various staff members, ensuring quality of information and format for presentation to key stakeholders including sen-ior leadership and funders.
• Prepares policy briefs, position papers and reports for internal and external
• Acts as the central resource to the Policy and Advocacy team to track deliverables, and more broadly supports the Policy and Advocacy Director in tracking the strategic plan updates, organizational goals, and objectives.
• Develops, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects across the department including regular activity reports and deliverables.
• Supports report and proposal management including reading, writing editing reports or
• Collaborate with all team members to ensure consistency and alignment with broader organizational
• Participate in regular internal/external meetings, conferences, summits on behalf of Pauktuutit
• Supports the Director of Policy and Advocacy on an as needed basis including providing support to the Policy and Programs 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 Meets personal pro-fessional commitments to the group and supporting others as required, to achieve organizational goals. It includes appreciating and respecting diverse, 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 Excellent presentation skills, use plain language, share infor-mation, and take an open-minded approach to influence decision-making.
• Innovation orientation: Intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness ready to question existing sys-tems, business models, and processes and devise innovative techniques Requires an inventive ap-proach to looking at business problems and opportunities.
• Adaptability: Constructively adapts style in the face of ambiguity; strives to constantly learn and im-prove, challenge the status Approaches new situations with an open mind, versatility, and agility. Demonstrates a positive attitude, resilience, and openness to change.
• 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 strate-gic priorities; Strong investigative, analytical, and interpretative skills
• Outstanding communication and collaboration: constantly in conversation with key organizational stakeholders and leaders. Strong group process, communication, and consultative skills.
• Policy and Research Generalist: demonstrates strength in planning, analytics and writing with the abil-ity 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 the Inuit Women and suggest opportunities for improvement.
• Interpersonal: ability to build consensus within groups with diverse needs; demonstrates a willingness to learn and ask for help; engages in growth and development activities in collaboration with depart-mental leaders; Ability to work effectively with cross- functional teams and maintain a strong pres-ence interacting with senior leaders.
• Organization: ensures all relevant information is recorded and is easily accessible; follows protocols and procedures. Ability to pay close diligence while under tight timelines.
• Time management: balances multiple tasks and large volume of duties; prioritize; maintains a sched-ule/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 rec-ognizing current and future needs and then deliver solutions to optimize opportunities and minimize

 

 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 stud-ies, and/ or other equivalent combination of education and recent relevant work

Experience:

• 5+ years of prior experience in Policy and Research, planning, and reporting
• Experience managing
• Experience, preferably in a similar environment and preferably in a not-for-profit
• Experience as a policy generalist with general understanding of Pauktuutit’s priority mandates of Health; Social and Economic Development; Violence and Abuse Prevention and Justice.
• Ability to develop positive working relationships within a tight-knit team and build trusted relation-ships across all levels – stakeholders include departmental leadership, consultants, funders, and com-munity interest groups.
• Self-directed with high business acumen, critical thinking, and critical thinking skills
• Experience collaborating 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 experience with senior executive interaction.
• Strong project management; consultation; resource planning and budgeting skills
• Ability to travel to remote communities as
• Language – Fluency in English; working knowledge of Inuktut (oral and written)