Director, Community Safety and Wellbeing
City of Toronto
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Toronto • 🇨🇦 Canada
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💰 CA$162,467 - CA$215,307 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team of program, policy, research, and community safety professionals in supporting and implementing multi-sector community safety collaborations, and prevention and intervention strategies.
- Design and implement collaborative solutions that address the root causes of safety challenges.
- Champion equity and reconciliation principles in every initiative, while fostering a culture of inclusion and collaboration within your team.
- Inspire collaboration, influence decision-makers, and lead equity-focused solutions to complex social challenges.
- Oversee and motivate a team that works closely with partners such as Toronto Police Service, Toronto Community Housing, Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic School Board, the Ministry of the Attorney General, and the Toronto Transit Commission.
Requirements
- Considerable senior leadership experience guiding multidisciplinary and diverse teams.
- Extensive experience developing and executing complex strategies that enhance community safety and well-being, ensuring measurable outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
- Experience leading in change management and cultural transformation within large organizations.
- Expertise in outcome metrics, reporting, and driving measurable results.
- Strong ability to influence and build collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholders and sectors.
- Skilled in conflict resolution, group facilitation, and balancing political and community interests.
- Knowledge and experience working within community safety systems, including policing and justice.
- Proven success in leading multi-sectoral programs and motivating large, diverse teams.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet deadlines, and oversee budgets effectively.
- Lived experience as an Indigenous person, Black or racialized person, LGBTQ2S person, newcomer, or person with a disability is a strong asset.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
change managementcultural transformationoutcome metricsreportingstrategy developmentcommunity safetyconflict resolutiongroup facilitationstakeholder alignmentbudget management
Soft skills
leadershipcollaborationinfluencemotivationcommunicationequity-focused solutionsinclusionrelationship buildingproblem-solvingdecision-making