As part of the Indigenous Wellness & Reconciliation team, work in partnership with a wide range of clinical teams and departments, coordinate capital space projects to ensure cultural safety across all Providence healthcare facilities for Indigenous-identifying patients and families.

Independent consultant specializing in change management, social planning, project management, evaluation and research for agencies and initiatives that address social determinants of health and mobilize lasting systems change and improvements across sectors.Some ways Jessica may be of service to your organization:• Developing a change management strategy and supporting your executives and staff in planning, implementing or reinforcing change• Supporting strategic planning and policy development• Developing or implementing projects• Conducting environmental scans and literature reviews• Performing formative, summative, developmental evaluation

• Oversaw a broad range of community programs and services with an annual budget of $3.4M and 19 staff, including child care, family programs, life skills, income assistance, post-secondary and K-12 education and homeless outreach, ensuring smooth program delivery, integrated client case management, ongoing process improvement and developing new programs to respond to community vision and needs• Led department-wide capacity-building, including policy and process development, strategic planning and budgeting, grant proposal writing, coaching and mentoring staff and youth interns, partnership development and problem-solving barriers and challenges• Project manager for department strategic initiatives, including capital planning for a Centre of Excellence in Education and children, youth and family jurisdiction capacity-building• Fostered positive and diplomatic relationships with colleagues, community members, and chief and council in a trauma-informed, solution-driven manner

• Provided strategic and active leadership, vision, planning, capacity-building and organizational development for a broad range of community-driven and culturally-appropriate program and services in child care, employment and training, income assistance, language, culture, family programs, on-reserve K-12 school and education for a department with an annual budget of $7.9M and 60 staff• Lead support for the Nation’s journey to asserting children, youth and family jurisdiction and reclaimingcontrol over children, youth and family services• Supported change management as the department undergoes a significant leadership transition andorganization shifts

• Acted in the capacity of second in command to the Executive Director and responsible for all duties of the Executive Director in her absence, with specific responsibilities for human resources, program administration and reporting, stakeholder relations, and capital and operational development of the 67+ staff agency• Provided agency-wide program development, proposal writing, change management and communications support, including grant-writing, coaching managers on operational and staffing challenges, and spearheading training and internal communications for new procedures, policies and systems, including: electronic file management system, data privacy practices, HR policy manual update and COVID protocols• Project manager for a complex daycare capital initiative from conception, which involved delicate stakeholder relationship management between various City departments, internal Board, leadership and staff, three land-based First Nations, multiple funders, development consultants, builders and community members • Coordinated the co-location of the Fraser Health Aboriginal Primary Health and Wellness Home, which included building and managing relationships between staff and clinicians, and securing contractors to complete renovations• Oversaw early years and family development programs, including supporting managers/coordinators, hiring, coaching and supervising front-line staff, managing budgets, reporting and liaising with funders

Provide leadership, strategic planning, project management and cross-sector partnership support to the Surrey Poverty Reduction Coalition.

Provided systems leadership, community development, strategic planning, project management, capacity-building and cross-sector partnership support to 11 collaborative planning tables and subcommittees, to ensure that families with children 0-12 thrive in the Surrey-White Rock community.

• Designed, managed and evaluated training and capacity-building initiatives, such as the Motivational Interviewing training/ provincial communities of practice, cross-agency mentoring program and other webinar learning opportunities (past topics include crowdfunding, scaling, sustainability)• Liaised with key stakeholders and partners on various collaborations and projects• Prepared strategic communications materials for internal and external stakeholders• Conducted research and literature reviews to inform policies and program development• Recruited, trained and supervised junior staff, volunteers and interns

• Managed and coordinate day-to-day program operational activities• Supported planning, managing and monitoring grants from intake to project completion• Supervised clerical support staff and interns• Prepared strategic documents, reports and presentation materials through gathering, analysing and summarizing internal data and information• Conducted background research and literature reviews to inform policies and program development• Provided support to conducting strategic outreach to external agencies• Identified workflow/system improvements and work with Secretariat to enact identified improvements• Led and managed strategic projects

• Plan and coordinate educational seminars and networking events for emerging health leaders, in collaboration with executive members and other professional organizations in the Lower Mainland

• Lead role in two research projects (comorbidity and caregiver mental health) and responsible for conducting literature reviews, preparing ethics approval documents, planning, designing and implementing studies • Conducted literature reviews and assisted with the organization and compilation of research files, including scoring of psychological questionnaires and data entry• Contributed to ongoing program evaluation

• Assisted in leading all summer programs at the drop-in centre• Taught and encouraged the development and improvement of social skills in all participants• Completed required paper work, documentation and record keeping of daily activities

• Provided childcare services for infants to 11-year-olds on an as-needed basis for support groups, such as the Single Mothers Support Group