+Positive Voice Program Coordinator - Indigenous Women Specific

Mission: Nokee Kwe, founded on Aboriginal principles, is dedicated to creating, promoting, and sustaining culturally sensitive environments, which encourage and support personal development and self-determination.

 Vision: At Nokee Kwe, we will be known as an organization that is a leader in the provision of holistic and comprehensive services to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal individuals, assisting them in making meaningful life choices.

 Job Summary

 Part-time (3 days/week) position- length dependent upon funding (potential for full-time)

 Program Objectives:

• Increase employment and education readiness:

Support participants in identifying and overcoming barriers to employment and education, while building the skills, knowledge, confidence, and practical tools needed to pursue their goals in a culturally sensitive setting

• Build self-confidence and self-esteem:
  Provide opportunities for participants to recognize their strengths, develop a positive sense of identity, increase confidence, and see themselves as capable of achieving personal, educational, and employment goals

• Strengthen Indigenous identity, culture, and connection:
  Create culturally safe opportunities for participants to reconnect with Indigenous culture, traditions, teachings, medicines, land, community, and one another. Cultural activities and knowledge sharing are incorporated as important components of personal growth and healing

• Develop leadership and personal capacity:
  Encourage participants to develop leadership skills, decision-making abilities, communication skills, and the confidence to advocate for themselves within their families, workplaces, educational institutions, and communities

• Create supportive relationships and community connections:
  Reduce isolation by creating a supportive peer environment where participants can share experiences, build relationships, learn from one another, and develop stronger connections to Indigenous and community resources.

• Support holistic well-being:
  Recognize that employment and education outcomes are influenced by social, emotional, cultural, financial, and practical circumstances. The program provides opportunities for participants to address these broader barriers through activities such as healing circles, cultural activities, food security initiatives, creative expression and access to community supports

• Provide opportunities for creative expression and storytelling:
  Use storytelling, photography, video, art, creative writing/memes/poetry, cultural activities, and other forms of creative expression to help participants explore and communicate their experiences, strengths, aspirations, and identities

• Increase access to resources and supports:
  Connect participants with employment, education, training, financial, food security, health, community, and other resources that can help them move toward greater independence and stability

• Increase participation in employment, education, and training:
  Support participants in identifying realistic next steps and progressing toward employment, postsecondary education, skills training, apprenticeships, or other meaningful pathways based on their individual goals

• Celebrate Indigenous women’s strengths and contributions:
  Create a space where Indigenous women and Two-Spirit participants are recognized for their knowledge, resilience, lived experience, skills, and contributions to their families, communities, and workplaces. Through community partnerships, advance participant contributions through community displays/exhibits, presentations, postcards, social media, and more

Overall objective: +Positive Voice takes a holistic, culturally grounded approach to helping Indigenous women and Two-Spirit individuals build confidence, strengthen connections, address barriers, and move toward their personal, educational, employment, and community goals.

  Educational and Experiential Requirements:

•  post –secondary degree/diploma in a related field (e.g., Social Work, Indigenous Studies) – preference will be given to those with related experience and Indigenous cultural knowledge

• 5+ years related work involving adults

 Additional Knowledge Requirements:

•  Indigenous cultural knowledge

• Budget management

 Nokee Kwe is an equal opportunity employer and invites all qualified candidates to apply, however, preference will be given to those identifying as Indigenous women living within the City of London

Nokee Kwe does not discriminate on basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at (519) 667-7088

 Closing Date October 23, 2026

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.  Apply via email to deba@nokeekwe.com  with cover letter and resume attached. No phone calls please.  Note job title in the subject line.  Please include salary requirements. 

Nokee Kwe

204-400 York St.,

London, ON N6B 3N2

519-671-1220 (Administration)

www.nokeekwe.ca

 Deborah Armstrong; Executive Director; deba@nokeekwe.com (519) 671-3798