BoardWalk Group

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At BoardWalk Group we walk alongside community organizations, integrated networks, and policymakers, acting as consultants, advisors, and collaborators. Today’s systems face growing challenges, and our passion is taking on these challenging and complex topics to support our clients.

As a boutique consulting firm based in Toronto, we are rooted in the principles of community and collaboration. We specialize in partnering with community organizations, non-profits, networks of organizations, government agencies, and policymakers to co-create strategies that address the social determinants of health. We aim to strengthen and amplify the community sector supporting them to play a vital role in improving societal health and well-being.

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Our work spans diverse areas that support the broader social determinants of health, such as health care, mental health, housing, and other interconnected sectors, leveraging innovative solutions to drive lasting impact.

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Role Overview

 

As a Senior Consultant, you will lead projects from end-to-end, build trusted relationships with clients and contribute expertise and insights to drive project impacts. You’ll play a critical role in designing and delivering high-quality strategies, reports, and engagement processes. You’ll also help to shape how we work contributing to the evolution of our internal systems, tools, and learning.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

• Serve as a project lead, ensuring deliverables are on time, on budget, and meet client expectations.

• Co-design and implement tailored methodologies using tools such as human-centered design, continuous quality improvement, implementation science and design thinking.

• Facilitate collaborative processes, including workshops, interviews, and focus groups with diverse stakeholders.

• Produce high-quality, insight-driven deliverables including reports, slide decks, frameworks, and toolkits that are tailored to key audience and visually appealing.

• Provide regular updates to BoardWalk leadership and client teams on project status, emerging insights, and risks.

• Conduct and synthesize environmental scans, literature reviews, jurisdictional scans, and best practice research.

• Apply both qualitative and quantitative methods to support evidence-informed insights.

• Translate complex findings into accessible, visually engaging knowledge products.

• Contribute to a culture of feedback and learning, sharing knowledge, providing mentorship and identifying opportunities for change.

• Contribute to proposals, thought leadership, and business development activities.

• Help refine internal project tools, templates, and knowledge-sharing systems.

 

Skills & Qualifications

 

• 5-10 years in a consulting, project management or strategy environment

• Experience in the health and/or social sectors

• Experience working with community, non-profit and public sector organizations, networks of organizations, and/or government

• Demonstrated success managing projects or workstreams with multiple informants

• Strong writing, synthesis, and presentation skills tailored to diverse audiences

• Expertise in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, with an eye for layout and design

• Ability to balance multiple deadlines and balance priorities

• Ability to work in team setting and independently

• Familiarity with systems thinking, change management, and/pr community-engaged strategy.

• Training or experience in facilitation, co-design, and/or informant engagement

• Proficiency in collaboration platforms (Miro, Wrike, Teams, etc.)

• Bilingualism (French/English) or additional language skills.

 

Education

 

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in a related field (e.g., public health, social policy, business administration, community planning) is considered an asset.

 

Workplace Type:

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• The position is fully remote, but also requires travel to client location

• Ideal for the candidate to live within the Greater Toronto Area

 

Why Join BoardWalk Group?

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• Work on impactful projects across diverse sectors

• Be part of a collaborative and innovative team

• Gain exposure to a variety of health social service sector priorities and innovations

• Opportunity for professional growth and skill development

 

If you’re excited by the opportunity to make an impact and grow alongside a start-up consulting firm dedicated to community-centered change, we’d love to hear from you!

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Interested applicants should submit their resume and a brief cover letter to info@boardwalk-group.com by June 10, 2025.