• Being a First Nations person, you'll work collaboratively with our First Nations cultural advisor and provide guidance or advice where appropriate on cultural practice and protocols to The Foundation team. This position will serve as a key liaison with First Nations partners and communities, ensuring that partnerships are culturally sensitive, mutually beneficial and aligned with the priorities of First Nations people, communities, and the Foundation.
• You'll support key projects and programs by leveraging your excellent organisation skills including stakeholder engagement, incorporating cultural considerations, coordinating travel and logistics, planning & executing events, hosting smooth sailing meetings, organising merchandise, ensuring details like permissions etc are covered.
• You'll be comfortable getting involved in events and advocacy work including supporting other team mates on activities such as film screenings, roundtables and networking functions. Meeting new people, supporting meaningful connections and facilitating engagement is something that energises you!
• Communications and community liaison is central to this role. On any given week you might support the Foundation's CEO and your manager to negotiate partnerships or work collaboratively with key representatives from our community partners, through to helping monitor & communicate progress and impact to stakeholders, or preparing reports and discussion papers for the Board to enable informed decision-making. The ability to take on many perspectives and sources of information, synthesise and communicate these both written and verbally will help you succeed.
• Research, writing and critical engagement: these skills will come in handy with some other tasks such as keeping abreast of First Nations social and economic justice and empowerment issues and developments in government policy, media and advocacy circles, supporting grant assessment and management, and contributing to team decision making.

The role requires a minimum of five years’ experience in a partnership/account management or project management role. Experience with First Nations communities and culture is essential.

• Passion for social impact
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Be a team player
• Ability to work autonomous and within a team environment
• And the ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive information

• Community and stakeholder engagement
• Project or program management
• Time management
• Communication and professional presentation
• Administration, grant support and risk management