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About the role

  • CEO leading BC First Nations Justice Council’s Indigenous justice reform and legal services. Guiding strategy, partnerships, governance, funding, and organizational performance across British Columbia.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement short- and long-term strategic and tactical plans aligned with organizational goals and objectives
  • Report regularly and accurately to the Justice Council on organizational status and progress against strategic and operational objectives
  • Provide direction, leadership, and support for direct reports in a culturally appropriate, healing-centered, and resilience-building manner
  • Serve as senior ambassador and advocate for the organization
  • Cultivate respectful relationships with First Nation communities, partners, funders, and governments
  • Lead strategic engagement with First Nations leadership and representative bodies, governments, justice-sector partners, Indigenous organizations, and First Nations communities across British Columbia
  • Create an organized, efficient, and strategy-aligned process for Council-member engagement
  • Work with the Finance Lead to manage project budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans
  • Ensure adherence to annual budgets and diversify the organization’s funding base
  • Help determine resource allocation among business units and departments
  • Provide executive oversight of the operating model, leadership structure, and internal accountability systems
  • Collaborate with senior leaders to monitor strategic priorities and ensure corrective action where needed
  • Provide strategic oversight of risk management, governance, and organizational planning to support service delivery and long-term sustainability

Requirements

  • Demonstrated knowledge of and respect for BC First Nations governance structures, the First Nations Leadership Council, and Indigenous laws and protocols
  • Senior executive leadership experience in a complex, multi-site organization of comparable scale, ideally 150+ employees
  • Working knowledge of the structure and procedures of Canada’s criminal justice system
  • Legal background in criminal defense and/or child protection (CFCSA) or demonstrated equivalent clinical/operational experience in delivering Indigenous-led legal services
  • Proven success building and sustaining respectful relationships with Indigenous communities, government partners, Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and frontline staff
  • High level of integrity, confidentiality, and accountability
  • Prior experience reporting to an Indigenous-led governance board or Council
  • Demonstrated ability to lead the organization in a culturally safe, trauma-informed environment
  • Strong political acumen and ability to manage conflicts and advocate from an Indigenous lens
  • Demonstrated ability to lead an organization through complex change, growth and evolution
  • Verifiable and validated Indigenous identity (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit) required, with BC First Nations identity strongly preferred
  • Deep cultural grounding, lived experience, and demonstrated accountability to Indigenous communities
  • Ability to work primarily in person, based out of any of the IJCs

Benefits

  • RRSP/TFSA matching program
  • Paid professional development support
  • Cultural leave
  • Comprehensive total compensation package
  • Salary progression and growth over time based on performance and tenure

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$203,000 - CA$243,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

HybridKelownaCanada

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