Job Posting: Towards Just Care (TJC) Project Manager

Application intake is now paused and interviews will be taking place soon. Thank you to everyone who applied.

• Position Title: Project Manager
  

• Position Summary: Research project is entitled “Towards Just CareBuilding and Mobilizing a Grassroots Coalition for Just Home Care,” led by Mary Jean Hande (Sociology, Trent University) and Brad Evoy (Disability Justice Network of Ontario). The project uses participatory methods to develop critical resources, tools, and analysis to support the Disability Justice Network of Ontario's case work and recent campaign to de-institutionalize care by creating public, community-engaged home care services that promote justice in care work and infrastructures. Dr. Hande is Assistant Professor in Sociology at Trent University. Disability Justice Network of Ontario is a community-based organization aimed at building a more just and accessible Ontario for people with disabilities. We are seeking a part-time, web-based Project Manager to assist with project management (record keeping, internal and external communications), website creation and social media engagement, resource mapping, event coordination, research analysis, and community-directed deliverables.

• Responsibilities:

  • Attending regular research team meetings

  • Planning and coordinating events, including community research steering committees and a large team orientation event (Fall 2025)

  • Assistance with comprehensive mapping of Ontario home care systems

  • Assistance with developing community-directed knowledge mobilization tools (e.g. pamphlets, social media, zine, etc.)

  • Possibilities for academic publishing and presentations

• Qualifications:

  • Strong writing and analytic skills

  • Ability to work independently and with academic and non-academic team members

  • Strong time management and communication skills

  • Familiarity with computer graphics software such as Canva, Miro, Photoshop, or Illustrator

  • Experience with meeting and/or workshop facilitation and conflict mediation

  • Familiarity with Ontario-based disability justice and/or migrant justice activism and home care systems is a strong asset

  • Experience with anti-racist, feminist, and/or disability- and migrant justice community-based research or community organizing a strong asset

  • Experience with creating accessible events and communication a strong asset

  • Residing in Toronto, Durham region, Hamilton, or Peterborough, a strong preference

  • Graduate level education in social sciences a strong asset

• Status:

  • Wage: $30-35/hour plus 11% non-discretionary benefits (CPP and EI, etc.) plus 6% vacation pay

  • Contract: ~ 10 hours/week, May 2025 – March 2028.

Position to begin soon after a successful candidate is selected.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to: Dr. Mary Jean Hande at mjhande@trentu.ca

Please indicate “Towards Just Care Project Manager Application” in the subject line.

Only applications submitted directly to the e-mail address above will be considered.

We thank all applicants, however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Trent University is actively committed to creating a diverse and inclusive campus community and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.

Trent University offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in its

recruitment processes. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process or require an accessible version of a document/publication, please contact humanresources@trentu.ca.

We thank everyone who is interested in applying for the position, however, only candidates short-listed for interviews will be contacted.

Statement in Support of Unionized Home Care Workers

To the Members of OPSEU Local 745:

Disability Justice Network of Ontario is committed to home care as a public good. Bayshore and their revenues are built on the backs of sick and disabled people, seniors, home care workers, and community nurses. For profit models of care only ensure the profits of executives and not based on ensuring the wellbeing of and justice for disabled care recipients, seniors, or care workers. Together, all of our struggles are united to ensure real, just care for our communities. 

We know that the Ontario Government has systematically encouraged companies like Bayshore in the home care industry to push for more profit over our health and our communities. OPSEU Local 745 workers are fighting not just for good wages and support for workers—but for investments in care for disabled people and seniors across Thunder Bay. We also know that there must be continued support for deinstitutionalization and a just care transition for all care workers.

We reaffirm that "[h]ome care is not a commodity. It’s a public service – and it must be protected". We need a world where we all can live our lives in our homes and communities without precarity and profit-driven austerity.

Disability Justice Network of Ontario was founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 2018 by disabled Ontarians to build a world where we are free to be—where we can be in community together, have political and social agency, and hold the powerful to account.

PRESS RELEASE: «Progress For Who: Disabled Communities Left Behind in Ontario’s Tariff Fight and Placed Under Attack.»

16 April 2025 For Immediate Release

Toronto, Ontario—Disabled Ontarians express our collective disappointment and concern with the 2025 Speech from the Throne delivered by the Honourable Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, on behalf of the Government. 

“Disabled Ontarians have been left behind in the face of generational crises and economic instability. Social Assistance Increases, Accessible, Affordable Housing, and fulfilling legal commitments under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act have all been left off the table by this government once again.” , said Brad Evoy, Executive Director of Disability Justice Network of Ontario, “Instead, this government prepares to posture against Donald Trump while enacting many of the same ideas and policies at here at home.”

While Ontario prepares for the challenge ahead, the Province leaves behind disabled people from every region and city to barely survive, let alone thrive in community together. Without clear and immediate investment in our social systems to end austerity across this Province, there remains an ever-present economic and social threat that only low-income and disabled communities will be left to bear alone.

As Ontario prepares to ‘unleash’ its economy, violence will be unleashed on the most vulnerable within our communities as the Government prepares to rush ahead with disabling, colonial resource extraction projects, resume attacks on our unhoused disabled neighbours and drug users, and continue the rampant criminalization of disabled people throughout the Ontario justice system. 

“The Province talks tough about unconstitutional bail reform and stacking the deck against those in prison” , said Pam Reaño, DJNO Prison Project Lead. “We see the results of these ideas every day—in every harm done to unhoused people and drug users; in the mass human rights violations and death occurring in prisons across Ontario, like in the Maplehurst Correctional Complex.” 

We know what this speech means: a Province full of legislated death, disablement, institutionalization, and poverty for disabled people. Disabled Ontarians know that it doesn’t have to be this way. Ontario can become a place where we stand up for each other, build lives in community together, and—in times of uncertainty like these—reinvestment in social programs and systems for all. To learn more about the Ontario we wish to build, please see our community’s ongoing campaign: endausterity.ca

Disability Justice Network of Ontario was founded in Hamilton in 2018 by disabled Ontarians to build a world where we are free to be—where we can be in community together, have political and social agency, and hold the powerful to account.

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MEDIA CONTACTS:

Brad Evoy, Executive Directormedia@djno.ca

Pam Reaño, Prison Project Leadprisonprojectlead@djno.ca