Social Planner

Are you a collaborative change-maker dedicated to shaping a safer, more equitable, and vibrant city? The City of Edmonton is looking for a Safe & Healthy Communities Social Planner to join our Social Development branch. In this vital role, you will champion systemic change, dismantle barriers, and build powerful networks to ensure every Edmontonian feels secure and supported. If you excel at navigating complex social landscapes and turning data into meaningful community action, we want you on our team. The Safe & Healthy Communities Social Planner is responsible for leading the development, implementation, and maintenance of frameworks, action plans, and policies that actively promote safe and healthy environments across Edmonton. Operating within the Social Development branch, you will work alongside community partners to align localized initiatives with the city's broader Community Safety and Well-Being and Anti-racism Strategies. This position requires a sophisticated blend of relationship brokering, public engagement, and thorough research to address system-level challenges. You will be instrumental in translating complex social data into accessible reports for executive leadership, designing robust evaluation frameworks, and establishing formal project agreements. Ultimately, you will help cultivate a respectful, inclusive, and integrated work culture that proactively responds to evolving community needs. What will you do? - Lead the creation and delivery of major social policy frameworks and strategic plans in close alignment with external organizations - Manage multi-sectoral initiatives from scope to completion, ensuring clear communication and timely updates to all collaborators and leadership - Establish formal relationship parameters by crafting Charters, Memorandums of Understanding, and Terms of Reference - Design and execute comprehensive public engagement processes in collaboration with internal communications teams and Indigenous Relations - Conduct qualitative research, environmental scans, and trend analyses to identify emergent system-level issues and propose leading-edge solutions - Develop repeatable performance indicators, dashboards, and logic models to monitor, evaluate, and report on program access and inclusion - Provide strategic data analytics and policy advice to senior management to guide operational direction and continuous improvement - Other duties as assigned