HSABC is looking for a Researcher & Data Analyst to join our passionate, supportive and hard-working team. This is an opportunity to develop and coordinate research—specifically the collection, transformation and organization of data in order to drive decision-making and provide advice on key issues and policies affecting the homelessness services sector.
Permanent, Full-Time (28 - 35 hours per week)
Location: Within BC
Starting wage: $34.96 per hour
Closing Date: Monday, May 30th, 2022, 9:00 p.m. PDT
About us
Homelessness Services Association of BC (HSABC) is an umbrella organization supporting shelters, drop-in centres, outreach teams and other service providers addressing the needs of persons experiencing homelessness with the goal to ending homelessness.
HSABC’s goal to ending homelessness is embedded within the right to adequate housing and acknowledges the Indigenous Definition of Homelessness in Canada. Furthermore, HSABC is committed to deliberately and meaningfully include those with lived and living experience of homelessness in decision-making and ensure all actions contribute to decolonization and anti-discrimination.
HSABC is actively committed to creating an equitable, diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive for a diverse team and foster the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented and oppressed. We strongly encourage applications from individuals from communities and groups that have historically been disadvantaged and/or marginalized, including First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women or gender diverse persons, 2SLGBTQ+ persons, and/or persons with lived or living experience of homelessness, poverty or precarity.
The Challenge
To ensure that priorities and decisions regarding responses to homelessness and homeless services are data-driven, HSABC is leading a range of research projects. Ranging from Point in Time Homeless Counts to Community Profiles and sector capacity environmental scans, HSABC is pursing a range of self-funded and externally contracted research projects.
The Opportunity
We are looking for someone who can turn data into insights to support strategic research and policy advice related to the delivery of HSABC’s research projects, programs and advocacy. With a focus on communications, collaboration and continuous improvement, this role will research projects that strengthen our knowledge and understand of the pathways into homelessness, the oppressive systems that keeping people from breaking the cycle of poverty, and the opportunities to ignite change.
Our Team
Join a passionate, supportive and hard-working team that works directly with our Members and community partners to share best practices and practical resources, engage in meaningful research and advocate for change. HSABC strives to create a work environment that treats each member of the team with patience, guidance and care, while ensuring we can fulfil our common goals through our collaborative work.
Within the first month in this position, you will
- Meet the team and learn about HSABC through a gradual on-boarding orientation process.
- Be introduced the HSABC’s various research projects and consider broad trends in the homelessness and housing sector.
- Continue learning how to analyze, contextualize and interpret research data.
Within three months, you will
- Establish working relationships with HSABC Members and community partners.
- Meet with project teams and community partners engaged in HSABC’s research projects.
- Assist with the development of eleven community profiles within Metro Vancouver.
- Assist with engaging local service providers throughout the province to support the 2023 Point-in-Time Homeless Count.
- Collaborate with the team to deliver a Learn + Connect event and HSABC’s Annual Conference.
Within six months, you will
- Co-facilitate eleven community partner roundtables to review and refine the community profiles.
- Prepare the logistics and finalize the methodology for twenty Point-in-Time Homeless Counts across the province.
- Work with the team to identify future research opportunities.
Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
To address issues of systemic inequity within Canada and specifically within the Canadian labour market, HSABC is committed to achieving a diverse workforce through inclusive Human Resource practices in all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring and promotions.
Therefore, we are prepared and willing to accommodate requests for specific considerations within this recruitment and hiring practice to ensure equitable opportunity to apply. Please contact us with requests, or any inquiries you may have to address unintentional barriers or biases in our practices.
How to apply
Review the Researcher & Data Analyst job description.
Application will be accepted in a variety of mediums (written, audio or video) to ensure you are able to best express your interest and qualifications. Please clearly indicate why you are interested in joining the HSABC team and the experiences that speak to why you are the right person for this position.
For inquires, requests for specific considerations or to apply, please contact Stephen D’Souza at stephen.dsouza@hsa-bc.ca or call 778-945-7789. Please indicate the position(s) you are applying for in the subject line.
Your application must be received by Monday, May 30th, 2022, 9:00 p.m. PDT.
Application tips
- Initial screening will consider cumulative life experience—including personal history, paid and unpaid work, formal education and informal training.
- Be as clear and specific as possible in your application as to how these life experiences contribute to your qualifications as the Researcher & Data Analyst.
- The content and format of your application may be considered as part of your submission.
- If you would like constructive feedback on your application prior to final submission, please email a draft at least 10 days prior to the application deadline clearly indicating that it is a draft for feedback purposes in the subject line of the email. Feedback will be provided within 1 week and you will be given an opportunity to resubmit.
- Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada (i.e., Canadian citizen, permanent resident of Canada or authorized in writing to work in Canada such as via a work permit). Employment is contingent upon continued eligibility to work in Canada.
If your application is shortlisted – Next steps
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to the next stage of the hiring process, which may include (a) interviews; (b) requests for a sample of work; (c) reference checks; or (d) a presentation. Shortlisted candidates will require a criminal record check. However, existence of a criminal record will not result in immediate disqualification as HSABC acknowledges the systemic racism within policing and the unjust criminalization of poverty and homelessness.
Sincere Appreciation
HSABC would like to thank all applicants for their time and candor in preparing your submission. We will endeavour to respond to all applications and, subject to practicability, provide feedback.