Community Connections Indigenous Advisor

**COMPETITION NUMBER: 1273**

**FACULTY OF SKILLS AND FOUNDATIONAL LEARNING**

At NorQuest College, the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program is funded by IRCC. It provides practical language and cultural instruction to newcomers to Canada to help them successfully settle in Canada. Our ultimate goal is to help them build social capital, and empower them to become self-sufficient, independent, and active members of the community. Just as the entire NorQuest College, the LINC program is passionately committed to creating a positive educational learner experience in a welcoming environment committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, anti-racism, and decolonization.

If you are interested, please submit your resume along with a brief cover letter that highlights your relevant experience and connection to the community.
This position is scheduled to start in July 2025 and will continue until March 31, 2026, with the possibility of extension. We are hiring for one full-time position (36.25 hours per week) and one part-time position (18.125 hours per week).

**HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE**:

- You’ll foster communication and encourage collaboration among many different college areas as well as the community for the purpose creating relationships between LINC students and Indigenous communities.
- You’ll establish and maintain relationships with sector partners and Indigenous organizations and community groups, to promote the program and recruit participants.
- You’ll work closely with the LINC program leadership, our NorQuest Elders, Cultural Advisors, Knowledge Keepers and Indigenous staff to ensure that activities are aligned with program goals and objectives.
- Work with our NorQuest Indigenous Elders, Cultural Advisors, Knowledge Keepers to provide Indigenous talking circles, blanket exercises and a variety of Indigenous led cultural activities.
- You’ll create connections and develop relationships between LINC students and Indigenous communities.
- You’ll plan and coordinate Indigenous focused exercises for students in order to respond to student understanding and experience of Indigenous teachings.
- Organize and facilitate presentations and activities from Indigenous groups based on student interest in different aspects of Indigenous culture.

**WHAT YOU BRING**:
We recognize that knowledge comes in many forms, including lived, community-based, and academic. If you meet most of the criteria below — especially if you’re rooted in community and driven by purpose — we’d love to hear from you.
- Postsecondary credential /experience: in settlement studies, social work, social sciences and humanities, or related discipline.
- You have an understanding of equity, diversity, inclusion as well as anti-racism and anti-oppressive practices.
- You have the knowledge of Canada’s colonial history and its impact on Indigenous communities.
- You have experience and ability to communicate effectively with newcomer students of diverse ethnic, cultural, and educational backgrounds for whom English is an additional language.
- You have a strong knowledge of Indigenous community resources

**WHAT MAKES YOU A DIFFERENCE MAKER?**

**As a difference maker you bring**:

- You are a positive, dynamic, energizing, future focused, outcomes oriented forward thinker with a strong drive for equity, diversity, and inclusion as well as success for yourself and others.
- You demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, and an exemplary level of professionalism and compassion.
- You have the ability to develop and maintain positive and inclusive working relationship with the community.
- You have outstanding digital citizenship skills.

**SALARY**:**$2,078-$2,700 biweekly reflective upon what you bring, AKA your education and experience. This is an AUPE role, the AUPE Collective Agreement Appendix A outlines how pay is determined.

We offer flexible work options. We strive for balance between a flexible work environment, connectedness to the campus community, and ensuring NorQuesters are set up to succeed in their roles and responsibilities.

For applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada, it is recommended they obtain an assessment of their credentials from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator, such as:
**Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion**: We're on a journey to become an inclusive, anti-racist, and decolonized organization. NorQuesters are trailblazers - we are curious, creative, and innovative - our lived experiences are honoured, creating accessibility and a sense of belonging for everyone.

NorQuest 2030 We Are Who We Include shares our strength and difference comes from who is included, and along with our students we are learning and growing to listen deeply and say what we feel.

NorQuest College is committed to being an employer of choice for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people by recognizing, respecting, and supporting Indigenous people's self-determin