Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement

3 weeks ago

London, Canada Western University Full time

**About Western**:
Since 1878, Western University has been committed to serving our communities through the pursuit of academic excellence and by providing students, faculty, and community members with life-long opportunities for intellectual, social, and cultural growth. We seek excellent students, faculty, and staff to join us in what has become known as the "Western Experience" - an opportunity to contribute to a better world through the development of new knowledge, new abilities, new connections, and new ways to make a difference.

**About Us**:
The **Office of Indigenous Initiatives** is responsible for championing and/or supporting through advice and counsel Indigenous initiatives across a broad range of areas including student affairs, academic programs, workforce planning, space planning, policy and implementation, and training and development etc... Through collaborative and community-engaged processes, the Office will facilitate partnerships that increase Indigenous voices and presence across all levels of work, study and research at Western.

Office of **Indigenous Initiatives **Priority areas
- Institutional Indigenous strategic planning
- Indigenous communications
- Indigenous community engagement and advisories
- Indigenous space planning and management
- Indigenous access and recruitment strategies
- Indigenous curriculum and training development
- Indigenous faculty and staff recruitment and retention strategy

Within this Office, the **Indigenous Student Centre** unit is organizationally housed, and offers culturally relevant wholistic and strength-based programs and services geared toward Indigenous students at Western.

**Key Goals of the Unit**:

- Indigenous Student Centre Priority Areas:_
- Indigenous cultural enrichment
- Indigenous student academic, financial and career support
- Indigenous youth and community outreach
- Indigenous orientation, transition, and retention
- Indigenization of recruitment programming and the student experience
- Culturally relevant support for well-being and mental health.

**Responsibilities**:
Western University is committed to improving Indigenous graduate students’ experiences and success in all disciplines. This role is a collaboration between the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and the Society of Graduate Students. The SAGE Coordinator/Indigenous Commissioner is a peer-based support network for Indigenous graduate students studying at Western. The role supports Indigenous graduate students to facilitate their transition, retention and completion of their studies. The role will also advocate for Indigenous graduate students within SOGS, the Indigenous Post-Secondary Education Council and various other campus initiatives.

**Responsibilities**
- Relationship Building_
- Strengthen relationships with Indigenous Graduate students and support a sense of community for students.
- Shall collaborate with SOGS VP Advocacy and Commissioners (Gender Concerns, Accessibility, Racial Equity and Inclusivity, and Pride) to take joint initiatives or host collaborative events by meeting at least once a term.
- Liaise with university departments and faculties at Western to support Indigenous Graduate student activities.
- Maintain regular communication with the Student Opportunities Coordinator and SOGS VP Advocacy by providing monthly updates.
- Program Development and Management_
- Develop a 2023-2024 program work plan that includes strategies to engage current Western University Indigenous graduate students in programming.
- Take a leadership role in coordinating all program activities, including setting a schedule and hosting monthly or quarterly peer-to-peer meetings, information sessions, workshops, social events, and collaboratively planning an annual Indigenous graduate symposium and writing retreat.
- Maintain program filing system and other duties relative to the program, including tracking student participation in all program-sponsored events and activities.
- Compile and maintain event and yearly reports with pertinent information for future coordinators
- Create and manage the program budget based on the developed work plan, which includes taking the lead on purchasing, honorarium payments, and invoices. The incumbent will have access to, in addition to the program budget, event funding through SOGs VP Advocacy and SOGs Event Funds.

**Qualifications**:
Required
- Must be enrolled as a graduate student at Western University
- Knowledgeable of Indigenous graduate student needs and experiences in postsecondary.
- Knowledgeable and sensitive to working with diverse Indigenous student populations.
- Able to work collaboratively with others and independently with mínimal supervision.
- Must have excellent communication skills, time management and organizational skills.
- Ability to be a self-starter and take the initiative on projects.
- Knowledgeable of Western University’s Code of Student Conduct and The Indigenous Strategic Plan

Preferred
- Have pr

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