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Tags: adult education, Indigenous Communities, Indigenous YouthSpecialist, Indigenous Connections to Trainees – Job Opportunity
United Way Greater TorontoUnited Way Greater Toronto is looking for an experienced, creative, and collaborative Specialist, Indigenous Connections to Trainees, to join our team in the Peel office (7 month contract).
Reporting to the Director, Peel Newcomer Strategy Group, the Specialist, Indigenous Connections to Trainees will help create and coordinate new training for staff in newcomer-serving organizations. The training will build awareness of Indigenous communities’ history, culture and current priorities. The role will also foster relationships with Indigenous communities in Peel on common issues of interest.
What you’ll do:
- Lead focused outreach and engagement to build supportive connections for Indigenous community groups and maintain positive relationships with newcomer-serving organizations
- Conduct a training pilot for newcomer-serving organizations in Peel to learn about Indigenous communities, and identify additional training opportunities
- Develop strategies to promote cross-sector collaboration, partnerships and effective tools for awareness and learning.
- Represent PNSG as a speaker, contributor, and participant at relevant meetings, committees, advisories, conferences, and events
- Provide cultural guidance, advice, and support to PNSG staff, its working groups and community stakeholders
- Convene, facilitate, and document decisions of meetings with internal and external stakeholders to support strategies and recommendations
- Plan and deliver PNSG events with team support
What you’ll need to be successful:
- Post-secondary education in indigenous studies, social sciences, or equivalent experience
- Experience in at least one of the following areas: Indigenous community engagement; community-based research; community development; training; service coordination
- Understanding of adult education and ways to connect with community organizations
- Candidate will be First nations, Métis, or Inuit with lived experience of Indigenous worldviews, cultures, and values and demonstrative anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice.
- Candidates must be living in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Candidates must be clients of Miziwe Biik and provide Indigenous ancestry information. Please reach out to info@peelnewcomer.org for these forms to be considered for this job competition.
Position will be posted until September 20th, 2024 or until the successful candidate has been identified.
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