Manager, Indigenous Education and Affairs

**Competition Number**
- S181139P**Position Title**
- Manager, Indigenous Education and Affairs**Position Number**
- A99839**Employee Group**
- Administrator**Position Status**
- Regular Full-Time**Start Date**

**End Date (if applicable)**

**Department**
- Indigenous Education and Affairs**Additional Notes**Location**
- North Vancouver**Working with us**
- Join our Indigenous Education and Affairs team where our commitment to inclusion and care goes hand in hand with our commitment to Truth + Reconciliation, Indigenization, and Decolonization. Through our dedication to both personal and professional connections, we’re aligned with our communities and eagerly engage with the issues that are important to them.We are dedicated to improving lives and building healthy communities through education and connection. As a member of our IEA team, you will be involved in supporting students who face significant barriers to learning, and will take charge in collaborating with others to begin building a better student experience. In a place where creativity, imagination, and experimentation are prized, our efforts are all aimed to provide our students with the knowledge and skills to transform their own lives as well as create meaningful impacts on the lives of others.
- The Indigenous Education and Affairs Development is a community of passionate leaders shaping the future through connection, care, and transformative learning. In joining us, you will be welcomed into a dynamic educational environment, and become a valued member of a community committed to making a difference.**What you’ll do**
- Capilano University is named after Chief Joe Capilano, an important leader of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples. The University respectfully acknowledges that campuses and learning locations are located on the unceded territories of the LíỈwat, xʷməθkʷəỷəm (Musqueam), shíshálh (Sechelt), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and SəỈílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
- The Manager, Indigenous Education and Affairs provides leadership, guidance, mentorship, and strategic direction to staff within Indigenous Education and Affairs department. Capilano University is committed to reconciliation, collaborative partnerships with territorial rights holders, and contributing to the aspirations of Indigenous communities through post-secondary education. Concurrently we continue to focus on meeting the Calls to Action, addressing anti-Indigenous racism, fostering Indigenization of curriculum, and promoting Indigenous learner engagement and success through a range of activities and services. The Manager plays a key leadership role in coordinating recruitment, and the development and delivery of services for Indigenous learners across the university in collaboration with Student Affairs, Faculties and other departments. Along with the director, the manager provides leadership in enhancing the cultural competencies of CapU employees and contributes to advancing the university strategic and academic plans through effective partnerships and activities.
- The incumbent reports to the Director, Indigenous Education and Affairs and works collaboratively with Indigenous students, Elders, communities, Indigenous organizations and agencies, Deans, Directors, and Faculties, and across the university.
- Leads Indigenous student-focused activities and services in alignment with Cap U’s strategic goals for enhancing Indigenous student success.
- Coordinates resources, services, and activities in support of Indigenous learner success in collaboration with Student Affairs and other university departments.
- Takes a lead role in coordination with the director to ensure appropriate, relevant and current services and supports are available and accessed by Indigenous learners.
- Profiles, promotes, contributes to, and participates in Indigenous events and ceremonies (e.g., annual university Truth and Reconciliation Week).
- Builds and maintains a culture characterized by communication, trust, respect, acknowledgement, and recognition.
- Develops and maintains positive relationships with internal and external constituents, partners, allies, and collaborators such as other post-secondary institutions, Indigenous organizations, and funding agencies.
- Engages with Indigenous communities to strengthen relationships and spread awareness of Cap U’s programs, and dedication to services supporting culturally responsive Indigenous education.
- Contributes to leadership with and specific advice on Indigenizing curriculum, Indigenous knowledge, and ways of knowing aligned with the academic plan.
- Seeks and secures external funding for Indigenous services and programming (the latter in collaboration with Faculties) including proposal and grant writing.
- Provides leadership with staff performance management and employee development and assists the director in workforce planning for the Office.
- Develops and monitors