Center Director

Reporting to the Executive Director and attending Governance Council meetings, the KDCC Cultural Director is an influential Indigenous cultural leader promoting KDCS’s First Nations cultural mission, voice, and engagement within the KDFN, the community at large, Yukon Territory and national colleagues and organizations, and within KDCS with colleagues and visitors.
The KDCC Cultural Director demonstrates the ability to lead, motivate, and engage others and develop community collaborations. The Cultural Director forges and nurtures community relationships especially with Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Yukon First Nations, those with collaborators, and those with funding bodies. This position strengthens KDCC’s role in Kwanlin Dün cultural knowledge keeping and engagement programs that support the intergenerational transfer of Kwanlin Dün cultural practices. The Cultural Director has a priority focus on the building of cultural knowledge and identity, resiliency, and leadership of KDFN and YFN youth through cultural education programming involving elders and youth.
Leads, motivates, and engages others and develop community collaborations including relationships within Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Yukon First Nations, those with collaborators, and those with funding bodies.
Focuses on priority area of building of cultural knowledge and identity, resiliency, and leadership of KDFN and YFN youth through cultural education programming involving elders and youth.
Engages with and responds to the Cultural Committee/Governance Council priorities, and evaluates, receives feedback, and determines the most appropriate design of projects and exhibits to meet community development needs, and ensures community-level implementation of cross-generational projects, programs, and exhibits.
Provides policy, project, program, exhibit, and interpretive tour input to the Executive Director to implement the mandate, goals, and objectives of KDCS with respect to advancing cultural programming, community engagement (especially the priority of KDFN/YFN youth engagement), program participants, exhibitions, and exhibition visitors.