Associate Vice President, Indigenous Engagement and

7 months ago


Oakville, Canada Sheridan College Full time

**About Us**

Founded in 1967, Sheridan has grown from a local college of 400 students to one of Ontario's leading postsecondary institutions, educating approximately 23,116 full-time and 1,741 part-time students every year on three campuses in three Ontario cities — Oakville, Brampton, and Mississauga.

An award-winning institution, Sheridan attracts students from across Canada and around the world. Sheridan's 215,000+ alumni play a critical role in shaping the future of our society in the fields of arts, business, community service, health, technology, and the skilled trades.

**Sheridan’s Vision**

Sheridan is the epicentre for groundbreaking, standard-setting higher education that unleashes everyone’s full potential and empowers people to flourish in and shape an ever-changing world.

**Sheridan’s Mission**

Cultivate resourceful, highly skilled, and creative people and communities through cross-pollinated, active learning and the relentless incubation of new ideas.

**About the Role**

Reporting to the Vice President (VP), Inclusive Communities, the Associate Vice President (AVP), Indigenous engagement and Education will influence and lead with others within the senior leadership team across Sheridan to achieve the outcomes identified in Sheridan's Indigenous three-year Engagement and Education Plan and beyond by working closely with the Indigenous Education Council.

The AVP will engage with strategic and transformational leadership while collaborating broadly to expand professional development opportunities. The AVP will help ensure that Sheridan respectfully and ethically incorporates Nation-specific Indigenous ways of knowing, meaningful Indigenizing and decolonizing pedagogies, policies, processes, and procedures. The incumbent will also work closely to establish and strengthen Sheridan's relationships with Indigenous communities with the aim to build long-term reciprocal partnerships.

The AVP works cross-collaboratively to engage our internal and external communities in decolonization and indigenization with respect and reciprocity. The incumbent fosters an environment where Indigenous students, faculty, staff, collaborators, and visitors can thrive in a safe and culturally competent campus.

**Responsibilities**
- Provides strategic, policy, and leadership on Indigenous initiatives to the college to meet outcomes and goals of Sheridan’s Strategic Plan and Indigenous Engagement and Education Plan
- Maintains a system to collect, track, and measure Sheridan’s progress in implementing the Indigenous Engagement and Education Plan
- Operates at a strategic level, not only developing and executing long-range plans and initiatives but also articulating strategies and identifying the external conditions that should be addressed
- Builds, guides, and empowers Sheridan’s diverse and capable leadership team through recruitment, selection, coaching, workflow/project planning, and employee development
- Fosters a safe, respectful, supportive, and inclusive workplace
- Demonstrates leadership and collaborates with administrative and academic departments and faculties to address and implement Indigenous initiatives into strategic and operational plans that support decolonization, truth, and reconciliation, and Indigenous education
- Provides advice and direction in the development of strategy, including stakeholder and community engagement activities to build relationships with local, provincial, and national Indigenous communities
- Share knowledge about Indigenous education with senior leaders across Sheridan to build their understanding and to find ways to align college initiatives.
- Champions continual learning about Indigenous cultural awareness and relationship building with all leaders at Sheridan; ensures continually growing involvement, confidence, and proficiency among key leaders
- Enhancing relationships with Indigenous communities, organizations, and peoples through outreach, partnership development, and community-based initiatives
- In collaboration with the Indigenous Education Council (IEC), advises the Sheridan community on Indigenous protocol and appropriate strategies for developing relations with Indigenous communities
- Chairs the Indigenous Education Council and represents Sheridan College at other local, provincial, and national tables to ensure collaboration and representation on Indigenous education initiatives
- Supports Sheridan's approach to relationship building that is rooted in reciprocity and respect
- Maintains current knowledge in the field of Indigenous education; continually learns to ensure adoption of emerging innovations and best practices
- Acts as a Sheridan representative at both functional and social events
- Participates in other projects and initiatives as required

You have a highly **collaborative** spirit and **interpersonal skills** with the ability to work with others to support establishing and achieving collective goals

You are a **self-direc


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