Specialist, Indigenous Connections to Trainees – 7 Month Contract

United Way Greater Toronto is looking for an experienced, creative, and collaborative Specialist, Indigenous Connections to Trainees, to join our team in the Peel office.

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
• Multi-stakeholder management skills with experience developing co-creative and collaborative relationships aimed at producing positive outcomes for learning by clients and service-providing organizations
• Ability to create workplans, identify tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to take initiative, manage competing priorities and carry projects to completion with minimum supervision
• Willingness to actively contribute to the organizational equity framework through participation in learning opportunities and implementing anti-oppressive and anti-racist learnings into action internally and externally
• Comfort conducting presentations
• MS Office skills
• Preferably with experience in the following:
  • Implementing and managing projects with multiple partners

• 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 [email protected] for these forms to be considered for this job competition.

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Position will be posted until September 20^th, 2024 or until the successful candidate has been identified.

We are committed to being transparent about our practices around pay. The salary range for this role will be shared with candidates who are being considered for it.

As part of our recruitment process, United Way Greater Toronto offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities. If we contact you about an opportunity, please let us know if you require accommodation.

About United Way Greater Toronto:

As the largest non-government funder of community services in the GTA, United Way Greater Toronto reinforces a crucial community safety net to support people living in poverty. United Way’s network of agencies and initiatives in neighbourhoods across Peel, Toronto and York Region works to ensure that everyone has access to the programs and services they need to thrive. Mobilizing community support, United Way’s work is rooted in ground-breaking research, strategic leadership, local advocacy and cross-sectoral partnerships committed to building a more equitable region and lasting solutions to the GTA’s greatest challenges.

Learn more about our work at unitedwaygt.org.

Diversity & Inclusion:

United Way is committed to creating an inclusive workplace that reflects our diverse community to ensure we’re best equipped to serve it. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds and those who may need accommodation to apply to join our team. Our commitment to excellence in diversity goes beyond promoting equity. By incorporating a variety of experiences and perspectives, we create opportunities for innovative solutions and maximize the impact of our work.

Funding support from Service Canada and MIZIWE BIIK ABORIGINAL EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING