E-niigaanzid; Chief Executive Officer

• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre, Sudbury, Ontario
• Service Locations:
  Sudbury and Cochrane, Ontario, including Sweetgrass Health Centre
• Reports to:
  
  Board of Directors
• Position Status:
  Permanent, Full-Time Executive Position
• Salary Range: $170,786 - $202,852 annually

Shkagamik-Kwe Health Centre (SKHC) is an Anishinaabek-led Indigenous health and wellness organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. For nearly 30 years, SKHC has provided culturally grounded, wholistic, and community-driven care that brings together Indigenous knowledge and traditional healing with primary health care, mental wellness, health promotion and prevention, cultural programming, and community supports.

Headquartered in Sudbury, SKHC also operates Sweetgrass Health Centre in Cochrane and works in partnership with First Nations, Indigenous communities, and health-system partners across Northeastern Ontario

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the E-niigaanzid (Chief Executive Officer) provides strategic, cultural, organizational, and operational leadership across SKHC and its service locations. The E-niigaanzid (CEO) is accountable for advancing SKHC's mission and strategic direction while ensuring strong organizational performance, financial sustainability, quality of care, and accountability to the Indigenous individuals, families, and communities served. The Board is seeking a collaborative, values-driven leader who will strengthen relationships, guide organizational growth, and ensure SKHC continues to provide culturally grounded, wholistic, and community-responsive care.

The E-niigaanzid (CEO) is responsible for:

• Strategy and Governance:
  Work with the Board to establish strategic direction, translate priorities into measurable organizational objectives, and report regularly on performance, finances, risks, and emerging issues.
• Financial and Operational Accountability:
  Oversee operating and capital budgets, financial controls, audits, funding agreements, and regulatory compliance, ensuring responsible stewardship of SKHC's resources. People and Organizational Leadership:
  Lead and hold accountable the senior leadership team, establish clear roles and performance expectations, and foster a culturally safe, respectful, psychologically healthy, and accountable workplace. Support Indigenous employment, mentorship, leadership development, workforce planning, and succession planning.
• Indigenous Leadership and Community Accountability:
  Ensure Indigenous culture, knowledge, values, and community priorities are reflected in organizational decisions, programs, services, and partnerships. Maintain meaningful relationships with Elders, Knowledge Keepers, First Nations, Indigenous organizations, clients, families, and communities.
• Quality and Service Delivery:
  Ensure programs and services are safe, accessible, culturally grounded, wholistic, client-centred, and responsive to community needs, with appropriate systems for quality improvement, client safety, privacy, and professional accountability.
• Sweetgrass and Multi-Site Leadership:
  Provide executive oversight of SKHC’s Sudbury and Cochrane operations, including Sweetgrass Health Centre, ensuring effective local leadership, staffing, financial oversight, organizational alignment, and a regular leadership presence in Cochrane.
• Risk and Organizational Systems:
  Ensure effective organizational systems, controls, and risk-management practices are in place to support safe, compliant, and sustainable operations, including appropriate stewardship of Indigenous knowledge and data consistent with Indigenous data sovereignty and applicable OCAP principles.
• Partnerships and Advocacy:
  Build and maintain strategic relationships with communities, governments, funders, and health-system partners and advocate for Indigenous health equity, self-determination, and culturally grounded models of care.
• Growth and Sustainability:
  Identify and advance opportunities for sustainable funding, partnerships, service development, innovation, and organizational growth that respond to community needs and support SKHC's long-term sustainability.

The E-niigaanzid (CEO) is accountable to the Board of Directors for the overall performance, integrity, and sustainability of SKHC and for ensuring the organization fulfills its strategic, legal, financial, funding, and community responsibilities.

The successful candidate will bring a…