Description:
The Executive Director will lead a team that supports, multi-year, whole-of-government policies, setting the strategic direction of research and analysis, development, evaluation and reporting.
Conditions of Employment:
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
- Must provide and maintain a satisfactory Criminal Record Check.
- Must have a valid class 5F driver’s license and access to a vehicle.
- Must be able to travel within the Province of Manitoba, nationally, and internationally as required.
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Experience related to Indigenous relations, economic development that may be complemented by or demonstrated through education in finance, commerce/business or public administration, intergovernmental relations, and/or economics.
- Experience building relationships with Indigenous Peoples, working to improve their lives through policy and/or programs, and implementing the principles of reconciliation.
- Proven ability as a leader with a commitment to create, support and sustain a diverse environment that enables staff to achieve results and to develop and build organizational capacity for the future.
- Demonstrated ability to leverage opportunities for innovation, find creative solutions to issues, and successfully manage change.
- Management experience with responsibility for human and financial resources.
- Strong financial acumen with experience in budgeting and financial management.
- Experience with strategic performance management and reporting.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience managing complex, high-level internal, government-to-government as well as external stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent political acumen demonstrated through experience providing strategic advice to senior leaders on navigating and resolving sensitive and contentious issues using diplomacy and tact.
- Experience providing leadership and direction in the design and implementation of legislation, policies and programs.