MI’KMAW/WOLASTOQEY/INDIGENOUS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Location

Halifax, NS | Canada

Job description

MI'KMAW/WOLASTOQEY/INDIGENOUS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Kinu Tourism Project- Dr. Peter Mombourquette

Mount Saint Vincent University is strongly committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within our community and encourages applications from all qualified candidates including women, persons of any sexual orientations and gender identities and/or expressions, Indigenous persons, African Canadians, other racialized groups, persons with disabilities, and other groups that would contribute to the diversification of our campus. Candidates who identify as being from any of these groups are encouraged to voluntarily self-identify in their application materials. All qualified candidates are welcome to apply; however, priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.

Mount Saint Vincent University will partner with members of Mi'kmaw and Indigenous communities/organizations and the tourism industry, via the Kinu (inclusive of/us/everyone) Tourism Project, to create a sustainable Indigenous tourism education project. The Kinu Tourism Project will incorporate Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk) and contribute to a diverse and robust tourism workforce, which is essential to economic recovery post pandemic in the Atlantic Region.

The project specific objectives are to:

• Identify facilitators and barriers to the development of Indigenous tourism entrepreneurs
• Improve Indigenous student access to post-secondary education by highlighting and reducing barriers to accessing education
• Create and strengthen networks between MSVU faculty, Indigenous communities, and tourism professionals
• Diversify and grow tourism labor force, which in turn addresses issues related to a labor shortage in the tourism industry
• Increase Indigenous engagement in post-secondary experiences and scholarship by building society's awareness around Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing Canada's true history and connection to the environment

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