Quality Assurance Worker

POSITION SUMMARY

Position: Quality Assurance Worker (Child Well-Being Law Development and Jurisdictional Readiness)

Department: M’Chigeeng First Nation

Classification Level: CS-4

Employment Status: Fulltime (Year 1 of 5-year Strategy)

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Purpose

M’Chigeeng First Nation is committed to strengthening community wellness and is undertaking a multi-year initiative to develop a Nation-based Child Well-Being Law and a culturally grounded community-care model rooted in prevention, self-determination, and Anishinaabe values. As a vibrant and united community of the Anishinabek of the Three Fires Confederacy, M’Chigeeng is guided by a vision of being a proud, progressive, and Ojibwe-speaking Nation where people are healthy, self-reliant, and grounded in their responsibilities to Mother Earth.

To support this work, M’Chigeeng First Nation requires dedicated roles that will lead engagement, planning, research, coordination, and capacity development. Year 1 represents a critical readiness phase focused on community engagement, needs assessment, data gathering, and intergovernmental coordination to prepare for exercising jurisdiction under the First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) Program and An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children, youth and families. These roles will ensure that the development of the Child Well-Being Law and community-care model is community-driven, culturally informed, and aligned with M’Chigeeng’s long-term vision of self-governance, family wellness, and sustainable service delivery.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Quality Assurance (QA) Worker plays a central role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and cultural safety of all activities and deliverables within Year 1 of M’Chigeeng First Nation’s Child Well-Being Law Development and Jurisdiction Readiness Project. This position provides independent oversight across engagement, research, service review, and reporting processes to ensure alignment with:

• The Year 1 Workplan
• ISC Jurisdiction Readiness and FNCFS requirements
• M’Chigeeng First Nation’s cultural values, community expectations, and vision for self-determination

The QA Worker strengthens the credibility of all Year 1 outputs—including the Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Service Gap Analysis, Engagement Reports, and foundational elements of the Community Care Model by ensuring they are methodologically sound, culturally grounded, and technically accurate.

The QA Worker collaborates closely with the Coordinator and Community Engagement Workers, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and internal departments. The role reports directly to the Coordinator.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Assurance Framework & Oversight

• Develop and implement a Year 1 QA Framework aligned with engagement, research, service review, and prevention model activities.
• Establish quality standards for documentation, data collection, reporting, and community engagement processes.
• Ensure all methods reflect Anishinaabe values, cultural safety, trauma-informed practice, and ethical research principles.
• Monitor adherence to timelines, deliverables, and ISC jurisdiction readiness requirements.
• Identify risks, gaps, or deviations from the Workplan and recommend corrective actions.

Data Integrity, Validation & Documentation Review

• Review and validate qualitative and quantitative data collected through engagement sessions, surveys, interviews, and service reviews.
• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all data prior to analysis or reporting.
• Maintain secure, confidential, and culturally respectful data management systems.
• Support the development and validation of the Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Service Gap Analysis and Engagement Summaries and Thematic Reports.
• Identify inconsistencies or missing information and work with the engagement and research teams to resolve them.

Performance Measurement & Monitoring

• Track Year 1 performance indicators, including number and diversity of engagement sessions, participation metrics, emerging themes and findings and service review outcomes.

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