Program Coordinator, Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program

**Job Title**: Program Coordinator

**FTE**: 1.0 FTE

**Annual Salary**: $70,000.00 plus employer paid benefits

**Start Date**: October 20, 2025

**Location**: Edmonton and Northern Alberta

**Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program (IYMP)**:
IYMP is a communal, relationship-based, after-school healthy living program. It is delivered by Indigenous high school students for elementary school children. Co-developed with Indigenous youth, educators, and researchers, IYMP promotes well-being, resiliency, and overall positive mental health, including Mino-Bimaadiziwin/Mino-Pimâtisiwin (“living in a good way”). It is grounded in teachings of Indigenous scholars Dr. Brokenleg (Circle of Courage - belonging, mastery, generosity, independence) and Dr. Kirkness (The Four R’s: Respect, Relevance, Reciprocal Relationships, Responsibility). The core components of IYMP are healthy eating, physical activity and relationship building and mentorship.

IYMP typically runs once per week for 90 minutes, delivering healthy snacks and physical activity for at least 20 weeks throughout the school year. IYMP builds on the strengths, energy, and talents of youth and communities. IYMP has been rippling across Canada in partnership with Ever Active Schools and is currently offered in over 50 communities.

**Ever Active Schools**:
Ever Active is a registered national charity based in Alberta that is focused on the well-being of children and youth. Our vision is for thriving schools and communities where children and youth grow, learn, and belong. Our mission is to lead, activate, and build capacity for settings that nurture health and well-being. We value relationships and well-being, which are at the heart of who we are and all we do. The values of inclusion, growth, community, voice, and kindness are also closely held and guide our work forward in a good way. We don’t know all the answers but we’re listening, learning, and growing.

**Opportunity**:
This position reports to the National Director, IYMP and complements a team of other program coordinators with diverse skill sets operating within the larger interdisciplinary team of IYMP and Ever Active.

We are looking for someone who brings creativity and care to their work, enjoys connecting with others, and has experience supporting students and schools. An interest in overall wellness and well-being is important, along with a passion for helping others thrive. The individual must be able to frequently travel throughout Alberta and be motivated to work in a fast-paced, exciting, and fun environment.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Coordinate all IYMP programming within the Northland School Division
- Develop and facilitate sector collaboration and cross-sector coordination, between organizations representing health, education, post-secondary, sport and wellbeing
- Explore how IYMP could flourish, considering agreements/MOUs with school boards, facilities, local grocers/food providers, programmers and other partners
- Establish and maintain close working relationships with IYMP Program Coordinators, Indigenous and community organizations, program partners including school principals, teacher champions and band councils, and funding partners.
- Create a positive workplace environment where staff thrive personally and culturally.
- Independently and proactively track and report on deliverables to the Director.
- Support in the planning, attendance, and supporting of provincial trainings and events and participate in planning national events (e.g. IYMP program leader training).
- Prepare, track, and reconcile honoraria, travel costs, or appropriate remuneration for community partners.
- Contribute to evaluation reports, publication, and presentations.
- Support communities to complete monthly reporting
- Collate monthly reports from communities, complete IYMP provincial and national report tracking monthly
- Work with communities to complete and submit funding agreements
- Collect content for website and social media during community visits
- Collaborate within and across Ever Active team and provincially across sectors to promote school based wellness initiatives
- Other duties as assigned

**Required Competencies**
- Understanding of intersectionality, particularly regarding how gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical ability, and geography shapes the experiences of Indigenous peoples is required.
- Honours protocols, decision-making and goals of partner communities; shares power wherever possible and supports groups to develop and implement their own solutions while authentically representing the organization.
- Skilled in negotiating and facilitating through cultural differences and conflicts, and adapting style in response to different intercultural communications and working styles.
- Adept at teamwork with the ability and desire to work cooperatively on a team.
- Has the ability to focus on the desired result of one’s own or one’s unit’s work, setting challenging goals,