WHO WE ARE

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Pauktuutit, as the national voice of Inuit women in Canada, has a key role to play in ensuring the use of a gender-equity lens in policies impacting Inuit women, girls and gender-diverse Inuit. We promote greater progress in priority areas, across health and well-being, violence and abuse prevention, safety, and social and economic development. Our ability to do so depends heavily on partnership across government, key funders, Inuit community groups and other stakeholder organizations.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Director of Policy and Advocacy, the Manager will lead both the day-to-day operations of the team within the social and economic development portfolio and drive the initiatives to support the overall goals of the organization. The role requires considerable skill in relationship building, including the ability to develop and foster partnerships and to collaborate effectively with community groups across Inuit Nunangat, agencies, and other stakeholders. The Manager is responsible to work directly with the Director and across the Policy and Advocacy team to coordinate and manage initiatives within the portfolio.

Primary Responsibilities Include:

• Provides leadership to the Policy and Advocacy team and owns project and department specific work-related supervision of the team within the portfolio area.

• Provide day-to-day coaching, direction, and leadership to employees; includes real time management or resources performance management and development, facilitating team meetings, escalation resolution and response.

• Actively participates in one-on-one meetings with Director, providing updates and clear work plans.

• Manage resources, processes, and procedures to ensure effective management of workplans and on time delivery.

• Works with the policy analyst and finance team to coordinate unit reporting with input from various staff members, ensuring quality of information and format for presentation to key stakeholders including senior leadership and funders.

• Acts as a central resource to the Policy and Advocacy team and collaborates across the organization to create presentations or speaking notes, including strategic planning, committees and advisory groups, partnership meetings, policy briefs and conferences.

• Acts as the central resource to the Policy and Programs team to track deliverables, and more broadly supports the Policy and Advocacy Director in tracking the strategic plan updates, organizational goals, and objectives.

• Develops, implements, monitors, and evaluates projects across the department including regular activity reports and deliverables.

• Identify funding sources and develop relevant project proposals, agreements, and budgets.

• Supports report and proposal management including reading/ editing some of the reports or proposals.

• Collaborate with team members (business development) to ensure consistency and alignment with broader organizational needs

• Supports process management to enable efficiency and effectiveness in the Policy and Advocacy team and ensures collaboration between Policy and Advocacy and the entire organization.

• Supports process management to enable efficiency and effectiveness in the Policy and Advocacy team. Organizes and creates standards, best practices across Policy and Advocacy.

• Ensures collaboration between the Policy and Advocacy team and the rest of the organization by attending and actively participating in weekly team meetings

• Supports the Director of Policy and Advocacy on an as needed basis including providing support to the Policy and Advocacy business during short-term absences.

Administration

• Plan and/or facilitate workshops, meetings; work plan logistics/travel.

• Monitor direct expenditures, schedule and technical performance within approved budgets.

• Support quarterly reporting process in collaboration with Director, including reports to funding organizations in a timely and professional manner.

• Maintain department workplans in consultation and collaboration with the Director.

Leadership

• Create and inspire a collaborative, results oriented Programs team to support Pauktuutit’s vision and mission.

• Provides direction to ensure a productive, positive, and healthy work environment in alignment with the cultural priorities and relevant policies and procedures.

Please note other duties may be assigned as needed to meet the mandate and evolving needs of the organization.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs)

Core Competencies

• Collaboration: Works cooperatively with others to achieve organizational goals. Meets personal professional commitments to the group and support others as required, to achieve organizational goals. It includes appreciating and respecting diverse and varying perspectives and putting the business goals ahead of personal preferences.

• Communication: The ability to listen, speak, explain, persuade, and influence others by expressing thoughts and views concisely, effectively, and appropriately in a range of different settings to hold attention and achieve desired impact. Excellent presentation skills, use plain language; shares information and takes an open-minded approach to influence decision making.

• Innovation orientation: Intellectual curiosity and open-mindedness ready to question existing systems, business models, and processes and devise innovative solutions. Requires an inventive approach to looking at business problems and opportunities.

• Adaptability: Constructively adapts style in the face of ambiguity; strives to constantly learn and improve, challenge the status quo. Approaches new situations with an open mind, versatility, and agility. Demonstrates a positive attitude, resilience, and openness to changes.

• Integrity and Ethics: Upholds social, ethical, norms and values that Pauktuutit holds important- demonstrates commitment to championing Pauktuutit’s organizational policies and values; behaves consistently, and is open, trustworthy and acts without consideration of personal gain.

Functional Competencies:

• Strategy - Critical thinking and ability to synthesize information and decide on actions to deliver strategic priorities; Strong investigative, analytical, and interpretative skills

• Outstanding communication and collaboration: constantly in conversation with key organizational stakeholders and leaders, and open-minded approach to influence decision making. Strong group process, communication, and consultative skills.

• A Policy and Programs Generalist with strength in planning, analytics and writing with ability to formulate data driven recommendations; ability to dig into data, reach out to subject matter experts, operate from the perspective of doing the best for Inuit Women and suggesting opportunities for improvement.

• Interpersonal: ability to build consensus within groups with diverse needs; demonstrates a willingness to learn and ask for help; engages in growth and development activities in collaboration with departmental leaders; Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and maintain a strong presence interacting with senior leaders.

• Organization: ensures all relevant information is recorded and is easily accessible; follows protocols and procedures. Ability to pay close attention to detail while under tight timelines.

• Time management: balances multiple tasks and large volume of duties; prioritize; maintains a schedule/calendar effectively; takes initiative to ensure deadlines are met and work is completed properly.

• Ability to respond to Pauktuutit employees’ needs and business priorities, provide value through recognizing current and future needs and then deliver solutions to optimize opportunities and minimize risk.

• High business acumen, Financial acumen, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Administration:

• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite, and materials tracking systems including, including MS EXCEL and Access

Education:

• A university or college degree in business planning, community development, sociology, gender studies, and/ or other equivalent combination of education and recent relevant work experience.

Experience:

• 5+ years of prior experience in Policy and Advocacy, planning, reporting & analytics.

• Experience leading teams

• Experience as a policy generalist with general understanding of Pauktuutit’s priority mandates of Health; Socio-Economic Development; Violence and Abuse Prevention and Justice.

• Ability to develop positive working relationships within a tight-knit team and build trusted relationships across all levels – stakeholders include, departmental leadership, consultants, funders, and community interest groups

• Experience working with Inuit and knowledge current political, social, and economic conditions of Inuit is an asset

• Strong relationship building skills with personal credibility and high impact communication and presentation skills, with extensive experience with senior executive interaction.

• Strong project management; consultation; resource planning and budgeting skills

• Ability to travel to remote communities as required

• Language – Fluency in English; working knowledge of Inuktut (oral and written) is desirable.

To Apply: Please submit your resume