Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre Job Board
Active Living Community Coordinator
Description
MI’KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
Employment Opportunity: Active Living Community Coordinator
Location: Halifax, NS
Salary: $26.50 per hour
Employment Term: Contract term July 2025 - March 31, 2026 (possible renewal), Full Time hours (35 per week)
Reports To: Executive Director
General Description:
Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre is centrally located in the urban Indigenous community of Halifax and is looking for One (1) Active Living Community Coordinator. This role is designed to work with the Urban Indigenous Community to encourage promote an active healthy lifestyle. Working through the lens of reducing barriers and promoting fairness, the Active Living Community Coordinator will work to create strategies, policies, programs and initiatives that focus on social inclusion and access while engaging the community to become more physically active. Must be willing to work weekends/ evenings.
We believe that being active is an experience that results from freely chosen participation in physical, social, intellectual, creative and spiritual pursuits that enhance overall individual and community wellbeing. Our vision is to incorporate the Medicine Wheel Approach teachings to engage a healthy, vibrant, integrated and complete community where urban Indigenous people can live, work and play. We are looking for a dynamic employee who is willing to work hard to ensure the promotion of The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre’s Mission, Value and Visions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create, coordinate, implement and periodically update our Active Living Strategy by ensuring that the strategy reflects community needs as well as follows the MNFC priorities.
- Focus on the urban Indigenous populations that are less active or sedentary (including the ageing population, adolescents, families and staff)
- Build partnerships and work collaboratively with other agencies, community organizations and all MNFC departments; to engage community and staff by finding ways to increase social inclusion through increased access to and participation in becoming more physically active through a cultural focused lens
- Develop and administer active living programs, special events and other initiatives designed to increase opportunities for community members to get physically active and promote a healthy lifestyle
- Deliver a group-based activities, offer advice and support on encouraging inactive community members as well as staff to participate in regular active living activity.
- To provide follow up one-to-one advice in person, over the telephone or by email to persons who attend activities (program) and deliver brief interventions and motivational interviewing to ensure you are able to support community members
- Monitor the increase in the number of inactive community members who are regularly participating in some form of healthy active living activity every day as a result of attending the programs.
- Organize, provide and promote activity sessions in planned outreach venues throughout MNFC.
- Refer to Elders, community members, where appropriate, to other clinics or professionals for healthy lifestyle services e.g. smoking cessation, health care, physiotherapy etc.
- Collect participant information, update and enter into the MNFC database system
- Actively promote and provide revision, accessibility issues and other initiatives around physical activity, play and play initiatives
- Undertake regular training to extend and update own knowledge of health and wellbeing issues.
- Prepare proposals to seek funding to run active healthy living programs and services
- Adhere to all the MNFC policies
Qualifications:
- Degree in Recreation, Kinesiology, Health Education/ Promotion or a combination of education, training and experience that would demonstrate the capability to perform the duties of the position;
- Experience with developing community through strategic partnerships and engagement, designed for the Urban Indigenous Community;
- Experience in marketing and health promotion activities.
- Programs and special events organizing experience;
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral;
- Demonstrably high level of effective interpersonal skills;
- Understanding of the impact of the social determinants of health on active living participation for Indigenous People
- Must possess strong planning, organizational, evaluation and administrative skills and an ability to multi-task;
- Knowledge of Indigenous history, culture and traditions
- Proficient in use of IT including databases, Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Must provide a Vulnerable Sector Check and Child Abuse Registrar upon hire
- Must have a valid driver’s license and access to a vehicle. Travel may be required
- Preference will be given to Indigenous Applicants, please self-identify
Application Deadline: Open until filled
Submit Cover Letter & Resume to: https://mnfc.applytojobs.ca/
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel working within this job title.
The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre is an equal opportunity employer; and complies with all fair employment practices laws. We are committed to providing a workplace free form unlawful discrimination and harassment and prohibit the same against employees, applicants or other covered persons by co-workers, supervisors, managers, or third parties based on a person’s race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, veterans status, disability unrelated to job requirements, ethnicity, genetic information, military service, political affiliation, marital status and pregnancy or other protected status.
Qualified Indigenous applicants will be given priority in accordance with the Aboriginal Employment Preference Policy of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) reserves the right to refuse all applications for employment. The MNFC will not assume any expenses related to this or any job application process included and not limited to travel, relocation, and application development.
*Only those applicants who are screened in for an interview will be contacted.
Compensation
$26.50 per hour