SEAL RIVER WATERSHEDJob Opportunities
Do you want to help protect our lands, waters and wildlife? Are you interested in working with your Cree and Dene neighbours?
The Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area Initiative is hiring! Come join a team that is working to permanently protect the entire Seal River Watershed as an Indigenous Protected Area.
Open positions:
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About the Seal River Watershed Alliance
The Seal River Watershed Alliance (SRWA) is working to establish an Indigenous Protected Area in northern Manitoba. A partnership of four First Nations with support from Inuit neighbours, the alliance works across Dene, Cree, and Inuit cultures and languages.
Together, we envision a healthy watershed where our grandchildren’s grandchildren engage in traditional practices and serve as guardians of the land and animals. This landscape stores a giant amount of carbon and is home to an abundance of life, and we will care for it on behalf of all peoples.
SRWA has confirmed strong community support, received significant investment from the federal government, engaged the Government of Manitoba, and collaborated with many partners and allies. Now SRWA is seeking strategic communications support to help amplify this work.
Scope of Work for Communications Support
Strategic communications can help advance SRWA’s goals by broadening public support and building political will to finalize the Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area. A coordinated campaign of narrative framing, media coverage, and social media engagement that generates 20,000 letters of support will help demonstrate that diverse audiences are in favour of the IPA.
Core Work Areas
Advocacy communications
Media outreach
Content generation
Oversight for social media campaign to generate signatures
Key Tasks
Coordinate rollouts of reports, polls, announcements
Design and executive media outreach strategy, particularly regional outlets
Manage a social media firm or consultant executing promotions
Draft media releases and other announcements
Help produce and place op-eds
Write blog posts per month and monthly newsletter
Work closely with social media associate to ensure steady supply of content
Work with partners on public campaign to generate letters sent to province
Upload blog posts, releases, videos, and other assets to SRWA website
Help build a database and design an email strategy for SRWA list
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About the Seal River Watershed Alliance
The Seal River Watershed Alliance (SRWA) is working to establish an Indigenous Protected Area in northern Manitoba. A partnership of four First Nations with support from Inuit neighbours, the alliance works across Dene, Cree, and Inuit cultures and languages.
Together, we envision a healthy watershed where our grandchildren’s grandchildren engage in traditional practices and serve as guardians of the land and animals. This landscape stores a giant amount of carbon and is home to an abundance of life, and we will care for it on behalf of all peoples.
SRWA has confirmed strong community support, received significant investment from the federal government, engaged the Government of Manitoba, and collaborated with many partners and allies. Now SRWA is seeking strategic communications support to help amplify this work.
About the Role
The Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area Initiative is contracting facilitators in:
Sayisi Dene First Nation
Northlands Dene First Nation
O-Pipon-Na-Piwin
Land Guardians will act as the voices of their communities within the project team and will ultimately report to their political leadership. Preference will be given to those with leadership and/or teaching experience in their community. This could be previous experience representing your band at conferences, organising hunting parties, teaching youth how to fish, organising band meetings, etc.
Land Guardians are required to create invoices and report on their work each month. Land Guardians will be paid $2,500 a month and will be expected to work an average of 80 hours a month. The ability to travel for meetings (primarily in Thompson and Winnipeg) is required and will be paid for by the project.
The Land Guardians and Youth Land Guardians will work as a team to:
Make sure that the values and needs of their communities are reflected in the Indigenous Protected Area
Reach out to community members to get them involved in the initiative
Provide political leadership and community members with regular updates on the initiative’s progress
Work with land users to collect relevant Indigenous Knowledge
Develop community service projects such as trail clearing and community harvests
The positions will be based in the communities they serve.
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About the Seal River Watershed Alliance
The Seal River Watershed Alliance (SRWA) is working to establish an Indigenous Protected Area in northern Manitoba. A partnership of four First Nations with support from Inuit neighbours, the alliance works across Dene, Cree, and Inuit cultures and languages.
Together, we envision a healthy watershed where our grandchildren’s grandchildren engage in traditional practices and serve as guardians of the land and animals. This landscape stores a giant amount of carbon and is home to an abundance of life, and we will care for it on behalf of all peoples.
SRWA has confirmed strong community support, received significant investment from the federal government, engaged the Government of Manitoba, and collaborated with many partners and allies. Now SRWA is seeking strategic communications support to help amplify this work.
About the Role
The Seal River Watershed Indigenous Protected Area Initiative is contracting youth ambassadors in:
Sayisi Dene First Nation
Northlands Dene First Nation
O-Pipon-Na-Piwin First Nation
Youth Land Guardians must be under the age of 30 and will receive training which will help prepare them for potential careers as Indigenous Guardians within the Indigenous Protected Area. Qualifications include a desire to develop administrative skills and/or to work outdoors. Must be comfortable working with land users & elders and speaking to community members about the initiative.
Youth Land Guardians are required to create invoices and report on their work each month. Youth Ambassadors will be paid $1,000 a month and will be expected to work an average of 50 hours a month.
The Land Guardians and Youth Land Guardians will work as a team to:
Make sure that the values and needs of their communities are reflected in the Indigenous Protected Area
Reach out to community members to get them involved in the initiative
Provide political leadership and community members with regular updates on the initiative’s progress
Work with land users to collect relevant Indigenous Knowledge
Develop community service projects such as trail clearing and community harvests
The positions will be based in the communities they serve.
