Director of Health Promotion
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Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights
Remote (local)- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management, Health professional
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (local)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: $95,000 CAD / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 02/10/2025
- Location: Canada
Who We Are
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights is a progressive, pro-choice charitable organization committed to advancing and upholding sexual and reproductive rights in Canada and globally. To achieve our mission, Action Canada engages in health promotion, legal and policy advocacy, campaigns, and movement-building.
We believe in a world where every person controls their sexuality, reproduction, gender expression, and health. In our fight for sexual and reproductive rights for all, Action Canada challenges the systems that create unequal access to information, health care, and rights.
Position Overview
The Director of Health Promotion is a senior leadership position responsible for driving Action Canada’s direct service and health promotion work, with a focus on advancing equitable access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services across Canada. This role leads a dynamic team, oversees strategy and operations for the Access Program, and builds collaborative partnerships with healthcare providers, health institutions, researchers, and community organizations to support systemic change toward improving access to sexual and reproductive health services.
Working in close collaboration with the Executive Director and fellow Directors, the Director of Health Promotion ensures that the team’s strategies and day-to-day work reflect Action Canada’s commitments to anti-racism, anti-oppression, and reproductive justice. This includes advancing approaches that factor in the economic, social, and environmental conditions that shape individual and community health and inform access to health care. The Director leads efforts to engage other teams within the organization as well as partners across sectors to take this broader view and co-develop interventions to improve people’s sexual and reproductive health outcomes. A key part of the role involves identifying systemic barriers to care, mobilizing resources to address them, and supporting collective action to advance equity-driven, low-barrier access to health services.
As a member of the senior leadership team, the Director contributes to the overall health and sustainability of the organization while championing low-barrier, trauma-informed, and equity-driven health services within the team and across the broader healthcare ecosystem in Canada.
Qualifications
- Degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in a related field, such as Health Promotion, Public Policy, Public Health, or Political Sciences.
- Minimum five years’ progressive experience in public health or community health and/or health promotion, with a focus on abortion care and/or the sexual and reproductive health being an asset. Experience of direct service context is a strong asset.
- Minimum of three years in senior management with direct staff/team supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to lead on health promotion and health system advocacy initiatives, data translation and knowledge mobilization, partnership development and stewardship, and on strategic planning to advance organizational goals and systemic change.
- Proven leadership in developing and implementing strategy.
- Knowledge, understanding, and commitment to reproductive rights and a person’s right to determine their own reproductive choices, anti-racism and anti-oppression, intersectional feminist policy and practice, and the mission and values of Action Canada.
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