Job Description

LEGAL AID BC

POSTING

TO: LABC STAFF (cc: BCGEU)

FROM: HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

POSITION: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION, AND EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION (T&R AND EDI) SPECIALIST

ONE REGULAR FULL-TIME POSITION – VANCOUVER

COMPETITION NO: B044-26

DATE POSTED: September 24, 2026

CLOSING DATE: October 15, 2026

STARTING DATE: ASAP

SALARY: Job Class 19 ($72,893 - $83,317) *under review

HOURS OF WORK: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

This position has the option to participate in a modified work week schedule (37.5 hours/week) Monday to Friday, with the extra hours worked as one earned day off taken once every three-week scheduled cycle.

Legal Aid BC is in the early stages of, and committed to a transformative journey to embedding Truth and Reconciliation, and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in all aspects of our work. We seek talent from equity-seeking groups, including but not limited to individuals who self-identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis descent, persons with disabilities, gender diverse, racialized, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community be a part of this exciting stage of Legal Aid BC’s growth. We care deeply about the culture we are building and are looking for staff members who not only excel in their respective areas but are also passionate about supporting the people we serve and each other. If this resonates with you, we encourage you to apply. All interested and eligible applicants will be considered with due consideration to all protected grounds under the BC Human Rights Code. If we can do anything to make your application experience a positive and equitable one, we want to hear from you on what we can do better.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Reporting to the Manager, Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) and the Manager, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), the Specialist leads in the development and delivery of assigned T&R and EDI programs, policies, projects, practices, learning initiatives and organizational change activities. As a subject matter expert, facilitator and change practitioner, the Specialist works across LABC and with external partners to advance T&R and EDI priorities. They help build organizational capacity, address systemic and structural barriers and support the creation of more inclusive workplaces and services. The Specialist also provides subject matter expertise and implementation support to employee resource groups, including the EDI Council, Accessibility Committee, and related working groups.

Through engagement, facilitation, learning, advice, and change management, the Specialist builds organizational awareness, understanding, capability, and commitment and supports the adoption of equitable, inclusive, accessible, culturally safe, anti-racist, and decolonizing practices. The Specialist leads assigned work and contributes expertise and implementation support to related initiatives led by other T&R and EDI team members or LABC departments.

The following job duties are illustrative examples and shall not be construed as an exhaustive description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.

DUTIES

1. LEAD IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSIGNED T&R AND EDI PRIORITIES AND INITIATIVES

a. Lead assigned components of T&R and EDI departmental plans and related programs, projects, policies, processes, learning initiatives, and organizational change activities to achieve approved objectives, deliverables, and implementation outcomes.

b. Develop and implement project and change management approaches for assigned work, including identifying resource requirements, timelines, risks, dependencies, constraints, external service and budget needs; coordinating cross-functional contributions and engagement; monitoring progress; and escalating matters requiring management direction or decision.

c. Identify implementation barriers, unintended effects, and emerging concerns within assigned work, and recommend practical mitigation and improvement measures.

d. Develop practical tools, documentation, accountabilities, and transition supports that help embed approved T&R and EDI improvements into ongoing departmental practices and operations.

e. Collaborate with the T&R and EDI Research and Program Evaluation Analyst by contributing subject matter expertise, implementation and operational insights, initiative context, and perspectives gathered through engagement to inform research products, evaluations, performance measures, reporting approaches, recommendations, and continuous improvement.

f. Provide T&R and EDI subject matter expertise, implementation insights, and operational advice to inform the Managers’ contributions to organizational and service planning, policy, and budget processes.

g. Draft assigned T&R and EDI communications and provide subject matter expertise, content advice, and implementation context to support communications developed in collaboration with Strategic Communications and other accountable departments.

1. DEVELOP ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY, POLICY, LEARNING, ENGAGEMENT, AND PARTNERSHIPS

a. In collaboration with the Supervisor, T&R, and other accountable departments, design, facilitate, and continuously improve assigned learning initiatives, practical guidance, employee competencies, and organizational resources that build employee and leadership capability in T&R and EDI.

b. Design and facilitate inclusive, accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed engagement and consultation processes for assigned work; identify relevant rights holders, organizational partners, participants, and perspectives; document themes and commitments; and support transparent follow-through.

c. Provide subject matter expertise, facilitation, and implementation support to designated employee resource groups, committees, and working groups, including the EDI Council and Accessibility Committee, to support their mandates, approved goals, and alignment with their terms of reference.

d. Lead or support the development, T&R- and EDI-informed review, consultation, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of assigned policies, guidelines, processes, practices, tools, and resources, in collaboration with departments holding operational, legal, or policy accountability.

e. Apply intersectional T&R and EDI, accessibility, human rights, cultural safety, and trauma-informed considerations throughout assigned programs, projects, policies, practices, learning activities, and engagement processes.

f. Develop and maintain respectful, reciprocal, and productive relationships with internal and external organizational partners, Indigenous rights holders and organizations, equity-denied communities, subject matter experts, and sector contacts, as relevant to assigned work.

g. Maintain current knowledge of legislation, public policy, professional practice, implementation and change approaches, and sector developments relevant to assigned T&R and EDI work, and apply this knowledge in providing advice and carrying out assigned initiatives.

1. PERFORM OTHER RELATED DUTIES

a. Perform other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Requirements

• Graduate degree in a relevant discipline, such as Indigenous studies, equity studies, human rights, adult education, law, social work, public administration, organizational development, or social justice, or an equivalent combination of education, training, lived experience, and progressively responsible related experience.
• Minimum four (4) years’ of progressively responsible related experience designing, leading or implementing Truth and Reconciliation and EDI programs, projects, policies, learning, engagement, or organizational change initiatives in a complex organization, as outlined in the rated requirements including experience supporting equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, decolonization, anti-homophobia, anti-ableism, anti-sexism, anti-transphobia, and Truth and Reconciliation learning and development projects and initiatives in a complex organization.
• Experience leading or coordinating organizational change, program or project implementation, and associated learning, engagement, consultation, facilitation, or organizational-development activities.
• Strong written, verbal and listening communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate impactful, sensitive or socially challenging information with tact, empathy, cultural humility, sound judgement and sensitivity to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated commitment to ethical, respectful, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approaches when working on issues affecting Indigenous, equity-denied, systemically excluded, or underserved people and communities.
• Lived experience as a person from an inequity experiencing group and/or a systemically excluded group and awareness of one’s own power, privilege and social location in T&R AND EDI work. (applicants are not required to disclose personal demographic information to demonstrate this requirement).
• An equivalent combination of lived experience, education, training, and work experience will be strongly considered.

Rated Requirements

• Solid working knowledge of human rights, accessibility, anti-racism, Indigenous rights, and related employment and service-delivery legislation and public policy, with the ability to identify relevant implications and recognize when legal, policy, or other specialist advice is required.
• Experience selecting and applying one or more relevant T&R and EDI frameworks or approaches to organizational initiatives, such as Gender-Based Analysis Plus, Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Benchmarks, Indigenous cultural safety, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, universal design, accessibility frameworks, or trauma-informed practice.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without formal authority and build commitment among leaders, employees and organizational partners.
• Experience contributing T&R and EDI subject matter expertise (including but not limited to anti-racism, decolonization, anti-homophobia, ableism, disability justice, trans rights, reconciliation) to the development, review, consultation, implementation, and improvement of organizational policies, guidelines, processes, or practices in collaboration with accountable departments.
• Experience designing and facilitating inclusive, accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed engagement, consultation, learning, or collaborative planning processes concerning complex and sensitive T&R and EDI issues.
• Demonstrated ability to build respectful, reciprocal, and productive relationships with Indigenous rights holders, communities, organizations, organizational partners, and equity-denied or systemically excluded people and communities.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across organizational boundaries, navigate differing perspectives, clarify roles and accountabilities, and influence action without formal authority.
• Knowledge of Indigenous histories, cultures, governance structures, justice concepts, contemporary issues, and the laws and policies impacting Indigenous peoples in British Columbia, with the ability to communicate and build respectful relationships with Indigenous individuals and communities.
• Knowledge of systemic barriers, intersectional inequities, and human rights issues affecting racialized, disabled, women, gender-diverse, 2SLGBTQIA+, and other equity-denied people and communities in British Columbia, including potential impacts on employment and access to legal and public services.
• Knowledge and experience of the principles of project management and organizational change management, including experience planning, coordination, implementation, risk identification, impacted party identification, progress monitoring, supporting behaviour change, culture change and implementation of communications and engagement strategies to support complex organization-wide initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply research, evaluation findings, organizational information, engagement input, and community-based knowledge to implementation planning, decision support, and continuous improvement.
• Experience contributing T&R and EDI subject matter expertise to the development, review, consultation, implementation, and improvement of organizational policies, guidelines, processes, or practices in collaboration with accountable departments.
• Demonstrated ability to translate approved strategic priorities and T&R and EDI objectives into practical implementation plans, tools, processes, learning resources, and sustainable operational improvements.
• Experience developing and delivering accessible, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed learning initiatives, practical guidance, workshops, or resources on complex and sensitive T&R and EDI matters.
• Ability to communicate evolving T&R and EDI concepts and terminology using clear, respectful, audience-appropriate, and plain language.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex organizational issues, integrate multiple forms of evidence and knowledge, identify systemic barriers, risks, dependencies, and unintended effects, and develop practical, well-supported recommendations.
• Demonstrated discretion, sound judgement, and reliability when handling confidential, sensitive, or potentially contentious information.
• Experience in developing and delivering learning initiatives on complex and sensitive issues.
• Experience supporting or leading programs and projects, including design, implementation, and coordination of complex initiatives.
• Demonstrated cultural humility, self-awareness, accountability, and understanding of power, privilege, bias, identity, and social location when working across differences and on matters affecting Indigenous, equity-denied, systemically excluded, or underserved people and communities.
• Demonstrated ability to apply ethical, respectful, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed approaches while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries and accountability.
• Strong writing and presentation skills, including the ability to prepare clear, concise, accessible, and audience-appropriate implementation plans, recommendations, briefing materials, guidance, learning resources, and communications.
• Understanding of, and ability to work in support of, LABC’s mandate, values, and responsibilities as a provider of legal aid services.
• Different languages spoken and experience from different cultural contexts or countries are highly valued.
• Technical competencies:
• Proficiency using Microsoft 365, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint, to support project coordination, consultation, learning, communications, documentation, and collaborative work in a hybrid environment

Testing required

• Written Assessment

We offer (based on your employment status and affiliation):

• Four weeks paid vacation to start that grows the longer you are with LABC
• An excellent employee benefits package, where premiums are 100% paid by LABC
• A generous defined benefit pension plan
• Support for training and development
• An Employee and Family Assistance program
• The opportunity to participate in various Employee programs (Employee Wellness, etc.)
• Support for a healthy work/life balance
• Generous leave provisions (sick time, special leaves)
• 13 paid statutory holidays
• An opportunity for a flexible hybrid work arrangement for some positions (LABC reserves the right to change this policy at any time)
• Transit friendly employer for eligible staff to have their commute subsidized
• Dog-friendly offices
• Dedicated Cultural Leave provisions for Indigenous employees
• Employee-led Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council and Accessibility Committee that bring together diverse employee perspectives to help shape ongoing workplace improvements and initiatives that advance equity, inclusion, belonging, and accessibility.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.legalaid.bc.ca

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We would like to thank all external applicants for their interest but regret that only those shortlisted will be contacted.