Manager, Indigenous Priorities - Vancouver, Canada - Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation

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Manager, Indigenous Priorities

Temporary - Parental Leave Contract - 18 Month Contract

British Columbia

Vancouver Foundation acknowledges that we carry out our work on the lands of Indigenous nations throughout colonial British Columbia. Our office is located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples._

About Us
Vancouver Foundation is a community foundation that serves Vancouver and all of BC. We bring together the generosity of donors with the ideas and energy of people and communities across the province.

Every year we fund a diverse mix of grants, both large and small, that help to build healthy, vibrant, equitable, and inclusive communities.

Considered a leader in responsive grantmaking and systems change, Vancouver Foundation is the most significant funder of charities in BC outside of government.

As a community foundation, we're committed to ensuring everyone has a place in our mission.

We are on a journey to actively align all aspects of our work — both internally and externally — to our commitment to equity, inclusion, and a more just society.

About You
You have a well-rounded understanding of the complexity of community-led systems change in BC.

You are a strong manager of province-wide initiatives, and you provide outstanding service and relationship-building with individuals, organizations, and networks.

You value transparency and are fluent working with people across diverse cultures, backgrounds and lived experiences.

You are connected to Indigenous communities, Indigenous-led organizations, and Indigenous-led social change movements across the lands now known as BC.

You are skilled in building and maintaining foundational relationships with Indigenous people to ensure Indigenous Priorities initiatives are relational, transparent, and accountable.

You are grounded in an Indigenous worldview while being adaptive to the diverse worldviews of Indigenous people we serve. You thrive when working in complexity and can create actionable workplans even within an uncertain context. You proactively seek opportunities to maximize impact and bring a learning lens to all aspects of your work. You can hold space for difficult conversations and model behavioral shifts that drive positive cultural change.

You're ready to join us as we explore and shape how Vancouver Foundation might do even more to align justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion with our culture and our mission.

About the Position

The Manager, Indigenous Priorities at Vancouver Foundation, is responsible for supporting strategic development that enables Indigenous priorities in BC to advance through Grants & Community Initiatives (GCI) resources.

The role is intended to deepen the Vancouver Foundation's work to be in right relations with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people and communities.

This position will also require both specialist and generalist skills to support other work across the GCI Department.

Our main deliverables for 2023 will include strategic planning, executing an Indigenous evaluation process, and developing and implementing our Indigenous Priorities granting streams.

Main Responsibilities
Under the supervision of the Director, Indigenous Priorities and Director, Grants & Community Initiatives:

Granting

Support designing and delivering granting programs that advances Indigenous priorities, including identifying resourcing needs, coordinating communications, engagement with grant seekers, receipt assessments, and notifications
Integrate innovative grantmaking practices that move us towards being in right relations with the communities we serve
Codevelop and implement processes reflective of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing
Contribute to learning and evaluation strategies for future grantmaking
Support the project leads of legacy, multiyear grants to evolve and complete their projects

Project Management

Produce reports and documents as needed, including the organization and presentation of background and context materials, data, and other information
Develop actionable workplans to execute elements of the Indigenous Priorities Strategy
Report on progress and recommendations to Director as required
Ensure organizational priorities are integrated into the development of departmental annual objectives and individual work plans

Engagement

Engage community members (including but not limited to landbased communities, Indigenous organizations, grantees, advisors, and/or donors) to identify opportunities for collaboration, gaps in services, and emerging issues
Mobilize and facilitate learning opportunities that build capacity in external community stakeholders
Seek opportunities to partner and leverage assets and expertise of Vancouver Foundation and external institutions, organizations, and individuals; nego