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 Government Affairs
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 Application:
https://forms.gle/bjWv889JeJY3h4dU7
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PositionSpotsLeadership Team?Term lengthDescriptionDeliverablesSelections ProcessResourcesQuestions?
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 Portfolio Leadership Team: For positions that are part of the Portfolio Leadership Team there are added responsabilites:

 1) Updates: Provide video and written updates to the team, Portfolio Roundtable, and membership
2) Leadership Team Meetings: Attend leadership team meetings (occur one hour prior to the Portfolio RT)
3) Portfolio RT: Attend the monthly Portfolio RTs to promote intra-portfolio and grassroots collaboration
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 National Day of Action
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National Day of Action 2027 Research and Planning Committee (NOT RECRUITING FOR FALL 2027)≈20No1 Year December 2026 to November 2027The main role of the National Day of Action (NDoA) Research and Planning Committee is to create the NDoA Backgrounder. This involves extensive research and collaboration with stakeholders/relevant organizations on the advocacy topic. Other tasks include creating the One-Pager for Parliamentarians and helping with NDoA training weekend planning, as needed.
1) NDoA Backgrounder: The backgrounder is a comprehensive policy document that describes our Asks on the advocacy topic, which the committee is responsible for creating. It contains quantitiative and qualitative data on the Canadian healthcare system and is targeted at the federal government.

2) NDoA One-Pager: The one-pager (EN and FR) is a 1-page summary of our Asks and key things for the politician to take away from the meeting.

3) NDoA Training Weekend: Speakers and presentations to equip delegates with the advocacy knowledge required to speak effectively with Parliamentarians.		APPLICATION ONLYhttps://old.cfms.org/what-we-do/advocacy/day-of-actionNational Officers of Political Action:
nopa@cfms.org
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National Day of Action II
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National Officers of Longitudinal Advocacy (NOLAs)2Yes1 Year
August 2026 to July 2027		Description
As a National Officer of Longitudinal Advocacy, you will help lead the organization for the Spring National Day of Action - from the first planning meeting to final handshake on Parliament Hill. You and your co-officer will take the backgrounder the Fall team built, revise it against what actually happened in those meetings, and construct a second campaign that pushes the same asks further rather than starting the argument over. This role involves finding and booking speakers, scheduling advocacy training, organizing the next round of representative meetings, planning a political reception and a social event, and building a schedule that holds all of it together across a single intense weekend in Ottawa. Judgement is required to read how the political climate has shifted since November, where each ask has gained ground or stalled, and deciding what that should change about the Spring. You will also work closely with the Director, Associate Directors, and the National Officers of Political Action to help our National Officer of Health Policy develop a federal pre-budget submission related to our Asks. This is an exciting role with a significant amount of collaborative opportunities, responsibility, and potential to elevate the impact our advocacy work has through the National Day of Action - the flagship event of the CFMS.		Deliverables

1. Revise the backgrounder developed by the Fall NDoA team, updating it against current status of each advocacy ask
2. Incorporate the Fall meeting findings from the NO of Stakeholder Relations into the Spring NDoA strategy

Planning cycle
3. Speaker list confirmed and invitations issued
4. Advocacy training scheduled with the National Officers of Political Advocacy Training
5. Representative matching and meeting scheduling underway
6. Political reception planned with the Director and Associate Directors
7. Delegate social event planned
8. Media events and opportunities agreed with the NOMRs and slotted into the schedule
9. CMA joint Day on the Hill programming resolved — confirmed or dropped
10. Compliance requirements for the event format verified, particularly for the reception
11. Final event schedule published to delegates

Event and after
12. NDoA II delivered
13. Second round of meeting data handed to the NOSRs
14. Pre-budget submission contribution delivered to the National Officer of Health Policy
15. Post-event debrief produced for next year's planning teams		Application + Interview
Director Government Affairs
govtaffairs@cfms.org
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 Political Advocacy Training (PAT)
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PAT Team Member≈5No1 Year
August 2026 to July 2027		The main role of the Political Advocacy Training (PAT) Team is to fill the void left by the discontinued CMA Advocacy Training program. This is an in-house Political Advocacy Training Program available to all CFMS members with the role of this training being to equip them with the necessary knowledge and tangible skills to advocate for a policy change.1) Political Advocacy Training: Continue development of core political advocacy training. Delineate training into Federal, Provincial, Municipal, and any other characterizations as deemed necessary.

2) Specialty Trainings: Continue to develop additional mini trainings based on need and member feedback.

3) PAT Coach Training Program: In order to ensure longevity of the program and to empower membership, a PAT Coach Training program will be developed to produce a set of certified coaches who can consistently administer the program to membership. Materials include the trainer guide, video overviews of topics, and training recruitment.		APPLICATION ONLY National Officer Political Advocacy Training:
pat@cfms.org
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 Committee on Health Policy (COHP)
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Committee on Health Policy (COHP) Member≈5No1 Year
August 2026 to July 2027		The main role of the COHP is to support the development of new and maintenance of passed Policy Papers. COHP members meet with CFMS members hoping to create a policy paper and guide them through the process as outlined on the CFMS website in order to ensure standardization and quality. They act as an intermediary between relevant CFMS portfolios who can provide expertise in the area the paper hopes to explore. They also ensure the resulting paper is ready for presentation to the membership at the annual and spring meetings.1) Write Policy Papers: Work with the COHP to identify key areas for CFMS advocac and write policy papers to be voted on by membership! (you'll get a publication out of it!)

2) Review Policy Papers: Work in teams to review select policy papers for retention, updating, or sunsetting.

3) Support Policy Paper Development: Meet with proposective teams to explain the process of research, consultation, advocacy feasability, paper formatting, COHP approval, paper accessability, and finally presentation to membership. Create an informational video showcasing the process to create a CFMS policy paper.

4) Author Policy Briefs: This new role for COHP will consist in consolidating policy papers and advocacy at the CFMS on a select topic into a single document to provide concrete guidance on existing positions and policy gaps. Policy briefs can offer leadership and membership a one-stop-shop for all their policy and advocacy needs on a specific topic.

5) Policy Accessability: COHP will institute accessability measures for CFMS Policy Papers including but not limited to - Voice Recordings of Position Papers, 3 min video summaries of Position Papers, policy memorandums, and social media posts.

6) Advocacy: Oversee and track the advocacy around policy documents. Identify which CFMS portfolio(s) each policy corresponds to and provide a list to both the relevant Portfolio Director (PD) and that Portfolio's Roundtable. Host a meeting of the CFMS PDs to discuss that year's set of policy for advocacy. Work with the PDs to integrate the relevant policies into their workplans. Create a report to membership on that year's work to the Spring General Meeting.		APPLICATION ONLYCFMS Policy Database: https://old.cfms.org/what-we-do/advocacy/position-papers

COHP Website Page: https://old.cfms.org/what-we-do/advocacy/cohp

Updated Terms of Reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11mRs0qBYIvAOuARCkz6szETsYavAzngEwF9q-slse70/edit?usp=sharing		National Officer of Health Policy:
nohp@cfms.org
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 Longitudinal Advocacy Training Series (LATS)
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LATS Team Member≈5No1 Year
August 2026 to July 2027		The LATS Team is responsible for the organization and execution of advocacy workshops. The Team also develops and implements program modifications based on past participants’ feedback to improve the program for the upcoming academic years.1) Curriculum Development: Enhance and update workshop content, collaborating with experts to cover diverse advocacy skills.

2) Logistics Coordination: Coordinate workshop scheduling, facilitators, and technology across participating medical schools.

3) Evaluation and Certification: Establish feedback process, set criteria for earning certificates, and ensure timely recognition for participants.		APPLICATION ONLYNational Officer Longitudinal Advocacy Training: advocacytraining@cfms.org
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Media Relations
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Media Relations Team Member5 to 7 No1 Year
October 2026 to September 2027		Description
Members of the Media Relations Committee will carry out the hands-on communications work of the Government Affairs portfolio. You will build and maintain relationships with journalists and news outlets across the country, research who covers health policy and medical education for a particular province/city/region, and pitch them stories when advocacy events such as National, Provincial, or Municipal Days of Action are approaching. You will adapt national media materials into drafts that speak to a local audience, produce content for the Federation's social media channels on a schedule set by the advocacy calendar, and track how CFMS work is covered once it reaches print, air, or feed. It is a role for students iwho want practical experience in health advocacy communications — writing for media, pitching a story, producing content people actually watch — and who want a hand in how the CFMS' advocacy is seen by the public.

Structure
Reports to the National Officers of Media Relations
Recruited alongside the broader Government Affairs portfolio intake; one-year term
Expected commitment concentrated around the Fall and Spring NDoA cycles and each school's local day of action

Deliverables expectations
Maintain assigned regional media contacts — outlets, journalists, beats — and keep entries current
Research and pitch local and regional outlets ahead of assigned events
Adapt national advisory and release templates for local use, and submit drafts for review before distribution
Produce assigned social media content against the content calendar — graphics, reels, short-form posts
Monitor and report coverage of assigned events, contributing placements to the post-event coverage report
Flag emerging local stories and media opportunities		APPLICATION ONLYDirector of Government Affairs: govtaffairs@cfms.org
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 Political Stakeholder Relations
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National Officer of Stakeholder Relations Jr.1Yes1.5 Years
September 2026 to April 2028		As the National Officer of Stakeholder Relations Jr., you will be tasked with the important role of taking the work done at the CFMS National Day of Action and converting it into an exercise of longitudinal advocacy and relationship building alongside the NOSR Sr. Without you, the National Day of Action remains a siloed event. This role is designed to completely elevate the advocacy work done by the CFMS Government Affairs portfolio, with specific deliverables and responsibilities designed to mimic the techniques employed by the nations largest advocacy organizations. You will work as the connecting point between the NDoA I and NDoA II events and planning teams, the GA portfolio leadership, student advocates at medical schools across the country, and the full range of federal representatives. This is a critically important role that is actively being refined with significant room for further innovation. Interested applicants with innovative ideas and a desire to be the engine for this portfolio's advocacy work are encouraged to apply for consideration.As NOSR Jr. you will provide support to the NOSR Sr. in the development and delivery of the following:

Meeting Intelligence & Data Capture
Collect data, outcomes, findings, and deliverables from NDoA representative meetings
Define key metrics and qualitative fields with the NDoA Planning Team ahead of each event
Standardize the meeting debrief instrument across all delegate teams
Verify and reconcile the post-event record before it's finalized

Relationship Establishment & Maintenance
Build and maintain relationships with MPs, Senators, ministerial and critic offices, and staff
Maintain a tiered stakeholder register with named CFMS points of contact
Run a defined post-meeting follow-up protocol, including commitment tracking
Sustain year-round engagement beyond Hill Day (constituency weeks, consultations)
Monitor shuffles, critic and committee changes, staff turnover, and by-elections

Institutional Memory & Knowledge Products
Maintain the living advocacy document: status, progress, deliverables, supporters and opponents per ask
Produce the post-NDoA transition report and drive its findings into the next cycle's planning
Maintain a role handbook and onboard the incoming officer with a defined overlap

Data Handling & Confidentiality
Steward contact information and meeting records under CFMS privacy practices, with restricted access		Application + InterviewDirector of Government Affairs: govtaffairs@cfms.org
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Stakeholder Relations Team Member≈5No1 Year
August 2025 to July 2026		As a member of the stakeholder relations team you will work with the National Officer of Stakeholder Relations Sr. and Jr. to implement the above deliverables. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the relationship management with MPs and their staffers, curate and maintain the data collected from advocacy meetings, and build a living document of ongoing advocacy work, their respective statuses, timelines, key contacts, supporters, and opponents, and synthesize necessary findings to inform the strategic planning of each year's National Day of Action events. To support the creation, development, and implementation of the above listed items. Scope of the role is subject to grow and change as this role is actively being reinvisioned. APPLICATION ONLYNational Officer Advocacy Follow Up:
followup@cfms.org