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Our team at Native Clan prides ourselves on our commitment to supporting, healing, and our dedication to serving our community in progressive and adaptive ways. Founded in 1972, Native Clan for the most part works with those relatives exiting western justice systems, their families, and community to support a positive healing journey that is right for our relatives impacted by those systems and trauma caused by colonization and stemming from intergenerational trauma.

Our Mission Statement: "The Native Clan Organization helps and supports our relatives navigate through, heal from, and return to their communities after contact with justice systems and to provide advocacy and progression of Indigenous ways of justice within those systems.''

Our Vision Statement: "Our Vision is to remove barriers for those relatives who have come into contact with justice systems, and ensure they return to their communities to live their lives in their most positive forms for them.''

Process and Support: The Native Clan Organization (NCO) acknowledges and supports the importance of having a team of pathfinders and helpers that reflect our relatives that we support. NCO practices equitable hiring practices and wants our work team to reflect those we serve as we aid our relatives on their journeys. In this spirit, preference will be given to those who self-declare Indigenous backgrounds in their resume or cover letter.

Also, in the spirit of removing barriers, and being as accessible for employment as possible, NCO uses qualifications and desired experience, or traits outlined in our job descriptions as a guide for those who would like to join our team. Applicants are more than welcome to apply for these posted roles if they do not specifically meet all of the listed requirements, as these are a guide for hiring and interviewing but are not all required. If you need assistance or guidance on resume writing, or interview skills please contact: amanda.ducharme@nativeclan.org and our team will be there to help you navigate resume writing and the interview process (skill building for this).

As part of making sure those joining our team understand what our team does, what are focuses of Native Clan in the present, and to get to know each other more we have a hiring process that is different from many organizations. Below are the steps and just a general idea of what these steps in our hiring include:

1. If you would like to join our team, please read, and think about this job/role posting and see if you are interested and think about if you would be a great fit.

2. Apply online and our team will review resumes. Please also include a video introduction if you would like, but this isn't required. We recognize resumes do not give a full picture of a person, and we try to ensure people applying for roles have every chance to show what they can bring to our team. If you need help with making a resume, please either call us, reach out on Facebook, or email kendell.joiner@nativeclan.org and we will arrange how we can help with this.

3. Our team will look at resumes and video introductions (if you do not have a way to do a video introduction, reach out and we will set up an in person meeting just to say hi, but this won't be an interview and will be informal) and contact those people applying to attend an orientation touch base.

4. The "orientation" is a chance for our Pathfinding team to give a presentation and general information session to those who are invited to attend, and those who go to this stage of the hiring process. We will arrange multiple in-person and virtual sessions to accommodate people's schedules, but this will need to be completed prior to an interview. This step is to ensure that people wanting to join our team see our work culture, values, leadership and support style, and the range of services our team offers as this isn't fully communicated during a dedicated interview.

5. The interview stage will be for those who are invited from the pool of people who have attended "orientations" or our information sessions. These interviews will take place in person for the most part unless requested depending on the situation, and when we call or contract those who are invited to interview we will work to get rid of any hurdles like timing, transportation, or scheduling. Interviews will be "paid" in the sense that anyone who takes time to be interviewed will be offered an honorarium for their time!

6. After the interview stage our Pathfinding team will work to choose who would be the best fit at the time for our team, and contact those who will be offered the role on the team. Those who aren't offered a role at that time will be asked if they would like our team to keep them in mind for future roles, and we can of course offer feedback!

Position Summary: Elder/Knowledge Keeper

What this role does in its day-to-day:

Location: Within community at our Mino-Ayawin Pimetisiwin Space

Responsible To: The Mino-Ayawin Pimetisiwin Pathfinder (MAPP) for providing cultural care and support for our relatives (clients) and team in a community setting.

Responsible For:

Attend team meetings and other NCO coordinated activities to ensure the proper channeling of information and positive two-way communication. Participate in Professional Development as directed by the MAPP for career and skill progression. Provide monthly written report to MAPP by 25th of each month describing all cultural and traditional support activities and their impacts. Coordinate with MAPP and Community Journey Helpers and other community Elders/Knowledge Keepers/Community members as needed with the support of their journeys. Coordinate with MAPP and Community Journey Helpers and relatives to prepare for ceremony and to mentor in helping with ceremony, land-based learning, and cultural connection to help them live their lives in the most positive form to them. Establish and help Mino-Ayawin Pimetisiwin space offer culturally grounded supports in a consistent way. Facilitate sharing, healing gatherings, and teachings and other ways of healing for our relatives. Collaborate with the team, families, groups, and other supports to help and support relatives identify goals and obstacles for success on their healing journey. Foster healthy and supportive relationships with other sister organizations and these cultural and spiritual teams. Any other duties assigned by the MAPP.
*Please note that the use of the word "relative" in this description takes the place of the words client, resident, or participant as NCO promotes a sense of relation and belonging in our way of operating

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00-$65,001.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Dental care Disability insurance Extended health care Life insurance On-site parking Paid time off RRSP match Vision care
Ability to commute/relocate:

Winnipeg, MB R3A 0R4: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person