Director of Community Programs

Start Date: June 2025
Salary: $88,790-$93,723
Reports to: Executive Director
Application Deadline: May 9
PPT is unionized and part of OPSEU Local 5115

Planned Parenthood Toronto (PPT) is Toronto’s only youth community health centre (CHC). We serve youth 13-29 across the city of Toronto.

We are currently seeking our next Director of Community Programs. Reporting to the Executive Director, and a key member of the leadership team, this role will oversee the various community programs within PPT’s dynamic Community Programs (CP) Team and bring sound perspective, knowledge and skills to the senior leadership at Planned Parenthood Toronto.

As a senior leader at a progressive, anti-racist, queer- and trans-affirming feminist organization, our ideal candidate will bring the skills to both support staff growth and capacity as well as enthusiastically and thoughtfully represent the organization within the community.

This is an exciting and transformative time at PPT as we continue to shift from a choice-based reproductive rights approach to a reproductive justice and youth futures framework. To support this, PPT has a bold strategic plan centred on health equity and reproductive justice. We are looking for the right fit who will support the CP team to gain clarity and ownership on the expectations of our strategic priorities. The CP team’s community-based work plays a central role in achieving those priorities.

We are looking for a Director of Community Programs who is energized about youth work, just futures and in getting to know and grow the CP team as a whole and each team member individually. The ideal Director will also be energized and motivated to learn about and understand PPT and the Community Health Centre sector, in its role as a youth reproductive justice organization, and as an organization that has a complex history and a large mandate.

This role is hybrid with an expectation to be onsite 3 days/week, at our downtown location and sometimes our North York satellite site, both of which are accessible via subway.
Occasional evening and weekend work may be required in response to program, organizational and community needs.

PPT intentionally prioritizes candidates who reflect our priority communities in our hiring process. Indigenous, Black, Muslim, South Asian and other racialized groups experiencing marginalization, queer, trans and youth candidates are encouraged to apply.

Community Programs at PPT:

As characteristic of Community Health Centres, Community Programs are a key pillar at Planned Parenthood Toronto. The team currently includes but is not limited to a longstanding health promotion program, school and community-based anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia programming, digital peer-based sexual health education for teens, drop-in programming for racialized non-binary youth, and other youth-focused and youth-led programs across Toronto. We are also growing in two specific areas: 1. Establishing satellite health services and programming in Northwest Toronto and 2. Developing programs and health services specifically for Black youth.

The Director of Community Programs will work closely with the Manager of Strategic Communications, the Director of Health Services and the Executive Director to support inter-team programs, communication and initiatives. They will provide management leadership for at least two PPT staff Committees or Working Groups.

Key funders for this department include Ontario Health, United Way of Greater Toronto, Canadian Women’s Foundation.
Key partners include the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Public Library, other community-based organizations and initiatives including other CHCs, gender-based violence shelters and social science research labs.

General Responsibilities:

In consultation with the Executive Director and their teams, The Director of Community Programs responds to societal trends, needs, and issues through the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of effective services and programs related to reproductive justice and relevant youth-futures initiatives within an anti-racist, anti-oppressive community development framework and through youth co-design principles. They bring strategic awareness and political acumen to their role, contributing to PPT’s response during shifting and challenging socio-political times.

The CP Director will be responsible for supervising, supporting and building the program evaluation and monitoring capacity of their team. They will be tasked with growing both collective team skills in this area while identifying and encouraging individual strengths.

They will be responsible for funder reports related to their programs as well as a key resource in identifying and building out funding applications for new programs and areas of growth.

The Director of Community Programs will work closely with their team, the Executive Director and their counterparts in other areas of PPT (particularly Health Services)

They will also provide management leadership to 2 staff committees/working groups and act as onsite management support several times/week.

Specific Responsibilities:

Program Management

• Foster a strong team culture and cohesion, mutual accountability and trust with staff and Management
• Provide Community Program staff guidance and clear expectations around work and work culture
• Ensure that Community Program staff develop work plans consistent with the agency’s strategic goals and operating plan.
• Ensure consistent and clear communication with team, with an approachable and open management style

Program Planning, Development, Monitoring, and Evaluation

• Apply for grants to support and sustain community programs with support from Executive Director or delegate
• Develop, monitor, and evaluate programs and services including annual workplans that ensure alignment with PPT’s strategic priorities
• Coordinate and prepare reports for various audiences
• Ensure a health equity, anti-racist anti-oppressive and youth centred focus of all programs that fit the priorities of PPT’s strategic plan

Human Resources Management

• Provide supervision and management support to staff in order to ensure staff goals are met.
• In consultation with the Executive Director, lead or participate in the hiring and orientation of new staff.
• Proactively deal with HR or other staff issues as they arise
• Develop and revise job descriptions for staff in consultation with the Executive Director
• Liase with staff in a professional manner and coordinate supervision and routine staffing duties (e.g. approval of overtime, approval of time sheets, etc.)

Financial and Budget

• Participate in the preparation of the agency’s budget under the direction of the Executive Director and/or Finance Officer.
• Monitor and manage specific budget expenditures for program areas, as required
• Prepare program-specific funding applications, grants, and proposals as directed by the Executive Director

Administrative

• Develop policies and procedures related to programs as needed in consultation with the Executive Director
• Oversee administrative supervision, coordination, and scheduling of programming staff.

Management Team

• Participate in Management Team meetings, committees, staff meetings, and other meetings as they arise and as directed by the Executive Director.
• The Director will be a key representative and relationship builder of PPT and will be expected to proactively be in community, building relationships and networks that further reach and impact to benefit PPT’s priority communities.

Desired Attributes:

• Commitment to working at a youth community health centre collaboratively and participatorily
• Knowledge and familiarity of inequity, marginalization, community and sectoral dynamics within the City of Toronto
• History of building relationships and cross-organization collaborations
• Experience in community engagement/advocacy/outreach work
• Prior management experience required
• Able to engage community about needs and wants. Community based research experience an asset.
• Thoughtful engagement and leadership in a process of truth, repair and reconciliation as needed with Indigenous and Black communities harmed by the legacy of Planned Parenthoods
• Solid human resources skills, including the ability to find potential in team members and support their individual growth and learning, particularly for youth staff members
• Sound analysis and commitment to anti-racist, anti-oppressive, queer liberatory, anti-colonial philosophies
• Valuing self-reflection and self-awareness, vulnerability and courage both in self and others
• Ability to have challenging conversations and manage conflict.
• Ability to be flexible, caring, open-minded, curious and patient
• Appreciation of process, learning and results.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to give direction
• An ability to exercise fairness, consistency, kindness, playfulness, good boundaries, integrity, compassion and vulnerability.
• Strong grant-writing skills.

Qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years community programming or health promotion experience in a community setting
• Ability to work from a community development perspective
• Thorough knowledge of and proficiency in program planning, delivery and evaluation, community development and health promotion and education principles and practises.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities proven effective in multi-team, multi-disciplinary, multi-funded, community-based organization.
• Able to design and guide programs that meet the needs of marginalized communities by centring the voices of those communities in solidarity
• Experience coordinating youth and/or volunteer-based programming
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge and proficiency in budget management.
• Demonstrated commitment to anti-racism and anti-oppression, centering queer and trans youth
• Demonstrated commitment to pro-choice philosophy.
• Alignment with PPT’s values
• Knowledge of sexual health issues facing youth across Toronto
• Sound IT skills; knowledge of Internet-based technology
• Experience of working in a unionized environment an asset