Overview
Policy & Advocacy Manager/Remote Jobs in Canada at World Education Services, Inc.
Position: Policy & Advocacy Manager (Remote)
Reporting to:
Sr Director, Policy & Research Type:
Full Time
Location:
Remote – Canada(Candidates based in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Nova Scotia or willing to relocate)
Compensation: $78,000 – $83,000 CAD
Who We Are:
WorldEducationServices (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and socialinclusionof immigrants, refugees, and international students. For 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in globaleducation, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact m evaluating academic credentials to shaping policy, designing programs, and providing philanthropic funding, we partner with adiverseset of organizations, leaders, and networks to uplift individuals and drive systems change.
Together with its partners, WES enables people to learn, work, and thrive in new places. For more information about WES, please visit our website .org.
About the Opportunity:
This role supports the capacity of WES Canada to engage inadvocacyto influence policy and programmatic solutions that advance the mission of WES. The role supports policy initiatives related to global mobility, workforce development and equitable labour marketinclusionfor skilled immigrants and refugees, and international students.
The Manager, Policy &Advocacyrole is responsible for collaborating on policy analysis, developing policyadvocacypositions and strategies; engaging stakeholders, including those directly impacted by the issues; and coordinating other policy activities (e.g., planning and evaluation). Each Manager, Policy &Advocacywill hold both general and specific portfolios, which may include any of the following: internationally educated health professionals or professionals in other regulated professionals, immigrant youth, international students, refugees or other immigrant groups facing issues of social and economicinclusion.
What You’ll Do:
Policy Analysis, Development, and Advocacy
Collaborate with colleagues across WES Canada teams (program, policy, operations, corporate) to provide policy insight and to develop and write policy positions, recommendations, andadvocacystrategies on key priorities. This includes developing theories of change/logic models to define goals, outcomes, impacts and progress metrics.
Develop workplans and implement specificadvocacystrategies.
Participate in monitoring, evaluation and reporting on activities.
Provide nuanced analysis, identify trends, developments, opportunities, and trade-offs.
Research, monitor and analyze information from a range of stakeholder perspectives; conduct environmental scans of research, news, policy and program developments, legislation etc.
Develop policy insight by directly consulting relevant stakeholders to inform policyadvocacypositions, with a focus on those directly impacted and proximate leaders.
With the support of WES Communications teams, develop, write and disseminate policy-related materials reports, position papers, briefing notes, submissions, talking points, blogs for a range of audiences
Develop materials and present in meetings, conferences, workshops, and other fora.
Represent WES with external stakeholders
Stakeholder Engagement…
Title: Policy & Advocacy Manager/Remote
Company: World Education Services, Inc.
Location: Canada
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Government
