Self-government Intergovernmental Relations Lead

2 weeks ago


Toronto, Canada Métis Nation of Ontario Full time

**Closing Date**: June 5, 2024
Hybrid Position

MNO’s culture is at our core

The MNO workplace culture is full of potential ready to be unlocked. As our Self-Governance agreement materializes, we are building a workplace culture of action, responsibility, and most importantly a desire to serve the Métis community. When defining what MNO culture is, it’s difficult, because of our diverse leadership styles, and the different programs and services offered. What that really means is there is a place for almost everyone under the MNO employer umbrella. We recognize people are different, and that is our source of strength. We bring opinions together, welcome healthy conflict, and look to always find answers, not problems.
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What We Can Offer You
- Comprehensive employer-paid health benefits and pension plan
- Generous vacation allotment starting at 10 day's for regular employees and 15 day's for management
- Annual paid two-week holiday closure in December
- 16 paid public and employer holidays
- 15 paid health & wellness days
- Challenging, multi-disciplinary work environment that fosters learning and professional development
- Substantial educational incentive to promote personal and professional growth
- An opportunity to make a direct or indirect impact on the lives of the Métis Peoples across the Province
- Other perks
- Employee Assistance Plan
- Telemedicine plan
- Health care spending account
- Goodlife corporate membership discount
- Bell Mobility's exclusive partner program
- Staple's corporate discount
- Dell member purchase program
- Mark's corporate discount

**About the Role**:
The Intergovernmental Relations team supports the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) to advance its priorities in developing government-to-government relationships between the Métis Nation of Ontario and the Province of Ontario and other Indigenous governments.
The Intergovernmental Relations Lead, Provincial Partnerships is a manager level position responsible for supporting MNO’s work with the Province of Ontario. The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with provincial, municipal and Indigenous governments. The Lead will engage with elected and bureaucratic government officials on a regular basis to identify opportunities to raise MNO’s profile, advance MNO priorities, identify risks, and maximize MNO participation in government processes that will further the achievement of MNO’s strategic plan. The Lead will work collaboratively with the Self-Government Strategy Branch and Research Rights and Policy Branch. While this position does not currently have any direct reports, it is possible it could in the future.

**What you will be doing**:
Under the direction of the Director, Self-Government, the Intergovernmental Relations Lead, Provincial Partnerships will be responsible for the following key duties and responsibilities:

- Lead MNO’s work related to the Province of Ontario.
- Become familiar with all MNO government funding opportunities and funding agreements.
- Support drafting of MNO budget submissions to Ontario.
- Monitor, identify and analyze legislative developments and government priorities that could affect the MNO or our work.
- Work with provincial, municipal and Indigenous government officials to promote the MNO, its priorities and its key policy initiatives.
- Manage and facilitate meetings and ensuring briefing notes are prepared for meetings with Ministers or senior government officials.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to coordinate their participation in government meetings and briefings as appropriate.
- Write, review and evaluate Intergovernmental Relations documents, briefs and reports.
- Ensure MNO staff, volunteers or officials who interact with government at an operational level are appropriately aware of emerging issues and opportunities that may affect their interactions, and make them aware of MNO’s key messages/strategies.
- Establish work plans, key deliverables, timelines, quality measures, and action plans with clearly identified priorities to support the implementation of self-government
- Attend and participate effectively in meetings with senior management, funders, elected officials and government.
- Manage and mitigate risk with respect to program delivery, quality, people and budgets
- Manage the employment lifecycle for direct reports, including recruitment, discipline, termination, and other people issues.
- Promote, track, and measure compliance with project timelines by creating and implementing appropriate data collection, reporting, and/or record keeping processes.
- Develop communication tools to enhance understanding of issues.
- Work collaboratively to identify ways to improve project effectiveness and implement viable ideas
- Deal with complex, confidential, and sensitive issues in a timely manner, with tact, discretion, m



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