Hiring Traditional Wellness Services Liaison

Job Scope
Reporting to the Community Health Services Supervisor, the Traditional Wellness Services Liaison is responsible for facilitating the engagement and procurement of practitioners who practice traditional/ancient wellness modalities, in support of group services for clients of the Health & Community Services center. This work includes researching needs and procuring partitioners, and booking and staging venues, and planning and booking catering and picking up and delivering supplies, to support group wellness events. The Liaison is responsible for implementing group traditional wellness services and will liaise with other departments, such as the Culture Department, to support wellness initiatives.

The immediate short term primary focus for the Liaison is to assist senior staff with the implementation of a wellness conference in November 2024. The conference aims to implement several traditional wellness service providers in one venue. The Liaison will be responsible for booking practitioners, arranging the venue and catering, planning advertising, and registering conference attendees; and during the event the Liaison will be a main point of contact for the event and gathering measurable conference data for evaluating the success of the event and services, and will collect attendee waivers, produce an end of event survey, and take photos during the event. The Liaison will support senior staff with their management of the conference preparations.

Other responsibilities include creating promotional materials for traditional wellness services available in the community, supporting and promoting access to these services, engaging in interagency advocacy and linking, and research activities as it relates to local services. The Liaison is responsible for driving to and from various venues. Other duties as assigned.