Skills Development

Skills Development

Job Vacancy: Director of Skills Development

The vision of the Wahgoshig First Nation Skills Development Fund (AAN-SDF) program is to create a clear path to employment and business prosperity for Wahgoshig First Nation members. The spirit and intent are to create, maintain, and sustain ongoing strategic opportunities through the management, coordination, and monitoring of the training to employment plan.

The AAN-SDF program is to provide cultural mentorship, knowledge sharing, academic upgrading, advanced employee skills (upskilling), wholistic essential work readiness, life skills, pre-apprentice, apprenticeship, and job-specific training programs to enhance the skills of First Nation members so they are prepared to enter the workforce and in particular, the mining, forestry, hospitality, and health sectors.

Mandate

The mandate of the AAN-SDF program is to:

  1. Promote, engage, recruit, and retain an Indigenous local workforce through the development of individual training plans, essential life skills training, career readiness, technical training, mandatory training and introduction to trades training and apprenticeships.
  2. Build an Indigenous skilled workforce that meets the needs of AAN existing agreements (resource development employment opportunities)
  3. To provide relevant training opportunities for AAN members to develop non-technical and confidence needed to achieve long-term rewarding employment and careers.
  4. Encourage, promote, and enhance culturally and innovative opportunities for growth and success in a variety of career paths.
  5. Support all AAN members – especially those facing barriers to fully participate in the labour market to enter, adapt and remain in a changing workforce by providing guidance on how to access other social programs to remove non-training related barriers (e.g. substance abuse, mental health, childcare)
  6. Specific targeted efforts to engage the youth and women in the community.
  7. To support existing Indigenous entrepreneurs and encourage the development of new Indigenous businesses and services.