Strategic Advisor, Indigenous Programs – Partnerships

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Evaluate and analyze Kinvia’s existing Indigenous programs, partnerships, outcomes, and role in transforming Indigenous food systems across Canada.

• Identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities, and suggest modifications to resources and methodologies.

• Manage operational priorities, planning, coordination, and execution.

• Supervise the Senior Officer responsible for Indigenous Programs and Partnerships.

• Conduct a comprehensive landscape analysis and map Indigenous organizations, communities, networks, funders, researchers, governments, and sector stakeholders.

• Pinpoint emerging priorities, policy and funding trends, collaboration prospects, and strategies for relationship-building.

• Provide guidance on whether Kinvia should take the lead, offer support, enhance visibility, partner differently, or withdraw.

• Enhance donor engagement by clearly articulating Kinvia’s contributions, outcomes, learning experiences, value, and funding requirements.

• Contribute to the development of proposals, reports, briefing notes, presentations, and donor stewardship documents.

• Transform findings into actionable guidance, tools, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

• Prepare prioritized recommendations addressing opportunities, partnership and funding implications, capacity needs, risks, and subsequent actions.

• Assess the effectiveness of partnerships and the impact of programming.

• Support partner engagement initiatives and participate in donor meetings and sessions with external subject-matter experts.

• Facilitate knowledge-sharing webinars or workshops to enhance staff capacity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Open to candidates who identify as First Nations, Inuit, or Métis.

• Strong ties to Indigenous communities.

• Proven experience in strategic thinking, relationship-building, and collaborative leadership.

• Demonstrated expertise in program evaluation, review, strategy, and organizational learning.

• Deep understanding of Indigenous food sovereignty, food systems transformation, and community development led by Indigenous peoples in Canada.

• Experience in cultivating respectful, reciprocal relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis partners, as well as Indigenous-led organizations.

• Background in donor relations, stewardship, grant writing, proposal development, reporting, or fundraising.

• Exceptional analytical, systems-thinking, writing, facilitation, and communication abilities.

• Candidates selected to proceed must complete Kinvia’s Indigenous self-identification and verification process.

• For consultancy or alternative engagement: submit a proposed methodology, work plan, timeline, deliverables, consultant profile, availability, effort level, fee structure, and references.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities.

• Flexible engagement options, including full-time fixed-term contracts, consultancy, consulting teams, or other suitable arrangements.

• Inclusive, accessible, and barrier-free employment practices.

• A workplace that promotes diversity and inclusion.

• Support for accommodations to ensure a barrier-free hiring process.