Summary
Description
Program: Ka-pe-kiwehtahat
Reports to: Ka-pe-kiwehtahat Team Lead
Salary: $50,000 -$55,000
Location: Calgary, AB
Position Type: Full-Time, Salaried
Hours: Monday to Friday |Includes some evening work (37.5 hours/week)
Miskanawah (meaning, ‘many little paths’ in Cree) is an Indigenous-led organization offering supportive services grounded in cultural traditions and teachings, and we believe children, youth and families thrive in a culturally responsive community.
Job Responsibilities:
- Build cultural capacity within Nipsisak programs
- Coordinate facilitation of cultural opportunities for Nipsisak programs (organizing, facilitating and engaging participants in cultural offerings: traditional feasts, traditional crafts, ceremony, Elder connection etc.)
- Collaborate with community members, Elders, and stakeholders to ensure Nipsisak programs meet the needs of the community served.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for Nipsisak Cultural-related inquiries.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with program relatives, staff, internal and external resources and other relevant stakeholders
- Monitor and evaluate effectiveness of Nipsisak Cultural offerings, implementing feedback from relatives, staff and leadership to make improvements and adjustments as needed
- Monitor and maintain Nipsisak Cultural program budget, ensuring funds are used efficiently and responsibly to meet the needs of relatives served.
- Facilitate culturally grounded meetings, sharing circles, workshops, and offerings for Nipsisak relatives and staff.
- Ensure that Nipsisak programs comply with Miskanawah’s Indigenous Evaluation Framework.
- Support Miskanawah’s cultural mandate: “Protecting the smudge”.
- Utilize collaborations and relationships built within the larger Miskanawah community of care to connect housing relatives to internal programs.
- Document and report on program activities, outcomes, successes and challenges to the leadership team.
- Provide culturally responsive support and advocacy to relatives and staff within the Nipsisak team.
- Support relatives in attending ceremonies
- Visit with relatives in their homes
- Handle other duties as assigned.
Skills & Experience:
- Previous experience with Indigenous people and communities required
- Awareness of cultural support services within Miskanawah and the Calgary community, and a working knowledge of how to access culturally relevant healing opportunities.
- Experience helping individuals experiencing stressful situations
- Excellent oral communication skills required
- Knowledge of Housing First and Harm Reduction best practices an asset
- Experience working with the homeless population an asset
- Proficient computer skills required
- Skill in developing and maintaining community partnerships
- Act as a role model, showing positive interaction and problem solving
- Ability to exercise good judgment and maturity
Job Requirements:
- Diploma in a human service field with related experience
- Minimum 2 years of experience working with vulnerable persons
- Knowledge of and willingness to engage in Indigenous cultural practices and ceremonies
- Ability to effectively communicate both verbally and in writing
- Ability to respond quickly in a dynamic and changing environment
- Ability to work individually as well as part of a team
- Valid Standard First Aid Certificate with CPR level C
- Current Police Security and Child Intervention Record checks with satisfactory results
- Suicide and Self-Harm Awareness Training
- Crisis Intervention Training
- Indigenous Awareness Training
- Diversity Training
- Harm Reduction and Naloxone Training
- Use of a reliable vehicle with $2,000,000 liability, permission to carry passengers and business coverage on the vehicle
- Valid driver’s license and a driver’s abstract with minimal demerits
Work Conditions:
- Interaction with relatives, employees, management, and the public at large
- Interaction with others under varying circumstances, including situations of a highly sensitive nature
- Attendance and participation in training
- Intermittent physical activity including walking, standing, sitting, and lifting
- Occasional overtime
- Working in a busy environment with frequent interruptions
- Flexible hours, including occasional evenings and weekends
We offer the opportunity to be part of a creative and positive work environment, a competitive salary, supports for professional development, opportunity for advancement, and the chance to be part of a team that supports children, youth and families to thrive within a culturally responsive community.
Please submit a cover letter and resume to pcairns@miskanawah.ca and reference “Nipsisak Oskapewis” in the the subject line.