Position Title: Community Coordinator
Department: Gwich’in Guardian Program
Reports To: Gwich’in Guardian Program Manager
Location: Ft. McPherson
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Closing Date: November 30, 2026
PURPOSE
The Gwich’in Guardian Program Community Coordinator position works alongside the Program Manager to carry out key leadership responsibilities to ensure the program in the community operates efficiently and with purpose, bringing structure through policies and procedures and above all bringing greater presence of Gwich’in Guardians on the land and water.
The Community Coordinator position is responsible for developing and implementing community workplans to ensure the program fulfills the needs and priorities of the community of responsibility. The supervisory position supports the aspirations of the Guardians employed in the community by fostering an environment that enables Guardians to bring their roles and responsibilities to life through land based field activities and monitoring the land and water in the area of responsibility.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensures open lines of communication between the Program
Manager and the other Community Coordinators in the settlement region;
- Collaborates with the Steering Committee Community
Representative in their community;
- Develops and maintains relationships with other community
organizations to ensure community-based issues, concerns and ideas are
relayed for consideration by the Steering Committee (and Program Manager);
- Leads community Guardians in carrying out work plans in
alignment with budget allocations provided;
- Ensure Guardians are aware of and implement Steering
Committee, Program Manager and Community decisions;
- Leads Guardians in maintaining in-person presence
throughout their area of responsibility;
- Ensures adherence to operational policies and procedures;
- Schedules Guardian field activities, environmental
monitoring projects and necessary follow-up reporting;
- Supports
the Program Manager in managing community operations finances by
monitoring workplans, budgets, expenditures, receipts, and financial
records;
- Work
with the Manager to support staffing needs, performance planning,
workplace safety practices, and community training initiatives;
- Leads development, implementation and monitoring of
community workplans;
- Maintains
open lines of communication with the Gwich’in Cultural and Heritage
Department, Gwich’in Co-management Boards, Gwich’in Participants, Elders,
and Territorial and Federal Government staff;
- Participate during meetings and at sessions that the
co-management boards sponsor;
- Participate in respective monthly Community Renewable
Resource Council meetings and activities;
QUALIFICATIONS
- A diploma or certificate in a natural resource or office
administration fields, or an equivalent combination of education and
courses related to resource management, or office management with 2 or
more years in a supervisory role is an asset;
- Strong environmental and cultural stewardship ethics;
- Demonstrated
expertise in Microsoft Office programs and strong communication skills,
both written and verbal
- Ability to use remote communication devices such as
Inreach/Zoleo, Starlink, satellite phones
- Knowledge of the Gwich’in Comprehensive Land Claim
Agreement;
- Knowledge of, and understanding of Gwich’in values and
traditional ways;
- Knowledge of the Gwich’in Settlement Region, communities
and land, water and wildlife resources;
- Class 5 driver’s licence;
- Firearms Possession Acquisition Licence (PAL);
- Pleasure Craft Operators Certificate (PCOC) or willingness
to obtain;
- Criminal record check (including for vulnerable peoples);
In accordance with Section 16(1)
of the Canadian Human Rights Act and our obligations under the Gwich’in
Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement (GCLCA), preference will be given to
qualified GCLCA Participants and
Indigenous applicants. We encourage applicants
to self-identify in their application if they wish to be considered under this
preference.