President and Chief Executive Officer

STATUS: Full-time Indeterminate

REPORTING TO: Pauktuutit Board of Directors

LOCATION: Hybrid with presence in the Ottawa area

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT: Fluency in English and Inuktitut

WHO WE ARE:

Join our team today and make a difference for the future of Inuit Women

Grounded in Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, Pauktuutit elevates the voices of Inuit women, girls, and gender-diverse Inuit across Canada and supports their health, economic stability, safety, and access to justice through culture-specific policy advocacy, dedicated programs and strategic partnerships. By engaging and collaborating with Inuit women, communities, and organizations, we strive to empower Inuit women, ensuring they have greater opportunities to thrive.

Pauktuutit, as the national voice of Inuit women in Canada, has a key role to play in ensuring a gender-equality lens in policies impacting Inuit Women and in promoting greater progress in priority areas for Inuit women and children, across health and well-being, violence, and abuse prevention, safety, and socio-economic development. Our ability to do so depends heavily on partnerships across government departments, key funders, Inuit community groups and other stakeholder organizations.

HOW WE DEMONSTRATE APPRECIATION FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION:

In choosing Pauktuutit, you are taking an active role in advocating for Inuit Women and Gender Diverse Inuit. Similarly, Pauktuutit recognizes your value and is dedicated to supporting you with inclusive workspaces and a total rewards approach including:

• Position salary range between $130,000 - $160,000 depending on skills and experience
• A supportive work environment that includes flexible work schedules
• 100% employer paid for Health and Dental Benefits
• Sick leave, Short-term and Long-term disability benefits
• Paid time off to support employee and family needs, with Vacation, Personal Well-being Days and Parental leave top-up
• Financial allowance towards your personal wellbeing
• Hybrid work allowances for personal office, equipment; connectivity
• A beautiful workspace, centrally located that celebrates Inuit Culture
• Inuktitut Bilingual Allowance to further support our connectivity with community
• RRSP contribution matching
• We celebrate holidays that reflect provincial standards and recognize women and Indigenous people, as well as a two-week closure over the year-end holiday period.
• A culture of recognition and appreciation for values supporting our work
• Our main office is in Ottawa, Ontario, however, Pauktuutit believes strongly in providing a flexible work environment that embraces hybrid and remote options as critical to the future of work.

THE ROLE:

The President and CEO is responsible for the strategic and thoughtful implementation and deployment of Pauktuutit’s vision, mission and mandate with the highest standards on behalf of Inuit women. Alongside the Board (BoD) and VP, Operations, the role leads on the development and execution of Pauktuutit’s strategic plan which includes developing and overseeing implementation of new focus areas, fund diversification and stakeholder management.

This role is the key liaison role between the BoD and the Pauktuutit team and manages overall organizational risk and risk mitigation strategies.

Your areas of responsibility include:

Strategic Planning and Strategic Direction

Governance – enabling the Board of Directors:

Organization and Fiscal Leadership

Brand Leadership

Team Leadership

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Fluency in English and Inuktitut; working knowledge of French is an asset.
• Commitment to Pauktuutit’s values, mission and vision.
• Strategic Thinking – a visionary with ability to inspire others to the organization’s mission and vision. Ability to understand the organizations position relative to what’s happening in the external environment; can scale from big picture to details anticipating emerging trends and envisioning the right strategies including change management to move from vision to implementation, tracking and measuring impact.
• Project Management – ability to understand and communicate interdependencies that lead to the critical path; assess and communicate progress toward long-term objectives. The ability to proactively plan, prioritize and meet competing deadlines for multiple projects.
• Social and Emotional intelligence to support partnership development, relationship management with ability to build trusting relationships, credibility, with a wide range of stakeholders. Ability to influence stakeholders, connect partners to improve impact and advocacy efforts.
• Critical thinking with ability to perform in-depth analyses of a range of extremely complex problems requiring evaluation of multiple intangible variables and alternative solutions, leveraging discretion and sound judgement to make accurate and timely decisions.
• Political acumen with strong knowledge or experience with policy structures of the Canadian government, including parliamentary committees, governance systems.
• Excellent communicator, presenter, and storyteller – clear, concise, and articulate both written and verbal with the ability to write high quality, compelling messages for various mediums and audiences and a keen eye for detail.
• Strong negotiation skills with ability to motivate others to desired outcomes while ensuring preservation of critical relationships to Pauktuutit’s vision.
• A team leader and team builder - leadership style that is collaborative, inclusive and respectful and inspires others to the mission and vision. Commitment to high professional standards, and leading/building high performance teams in a diverse workplace including a hybrid or remote context.
• Experience leading organizations, in particular with a focus on working together to effectively deliver projects and advocate for better futures.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing non-profit finances and project based financial commitments and ensuring compliance with contribution agreement requirements.
• A degree from a recognized university in a relevant discipline or commensurate credentials and experience (ex. public administration, public policy, human rights, business management, or special studies in Advocacy), and/or related equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 15 years' progressive experience in non-profit management, or funding-based organization, including a minimum of 10 years’ leading cross functional teams.
• Experience managing correspondence and reports effectively and preparing materials for submission to governments and tribunals.
• Demonstrated experience with managing non-profit finances and ensuring compliance with contribution agreement requirements.
• Demonstrated general management experience with hands-on experience in strategy development and execution and managing non-profit finances and ensuring compliance with contribution agreement requirements.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience within a board governance framework.
• An effective network within the sector, both public-government and private industry and/or ability to build strong business relationships and networks in the sector to support Pauktuutit’s priorities.
• Experience working with Inuit; and knowledge of the current political, social, and economic conditions of Inuit.

Managing Your Candidacy:

Pauktuutit is a small but mighty team of individuals whose work is grounded in Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit. We inherently place tremendous value on the contributions of each individual being critical to the success of the whole.

Pauktuutit is an equal opportunity employer, with policies and practices intended to build an inclusive, accessible, and respectful work environment. We strongly encourage applications from Inuit and other Indigenous people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, and regulations.

Pauktuutit staff work within Canada with requirement to review and agree to employment policies and procedures handbook. With full adherence to public health guidelines and safety protocols, some short-term domestic travel within Canada may be required for the role in future.

Skills testing may be a part of the application process.

We are committed to creating safe spaces for individuals of all backgrounds and abilities. If you require accommodation, please indicate so in your application.

How to apply:

Please include a cover letter with your resume and send them to

We thank all applicants for their interest in Pauktuutit; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.