The Mental Health Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s mental health policy, advocacy, planning, funding, and system coordination work. The Manager is responsible for translating community priorities, NAN leadership direction, funding requirements, and emerging mental health needs into coordinated plans, investments, partnerships, engagement, policy advice, and measurable outcomes. The position leads the Mental Health team; manages financial, human, and program resources; maintains robust relationships with NAN First Nations, Tribal Councils, Indigenous health partners, government and health-system partners; and provides leadership for the continued development and implementation of the NAN Mental Health Plan and other mental health priorities approved by NAN leadership.

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Occupation Type

Accounting/Bookkeeping/Finance Clerk

Total Positions

1

Wage

$88,652- $121,485

Hours/Week

35

Days of Work

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Closing Date / Apply By

10/21/2026

Start Date

n/a

Duties

- · Lead the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of NAN’s mental health priorities, ensuring work is aligned with community needs, leadership direction, organizational priorities, and approved funding commitments.
- · Provide strategic leadership for the continued development, community validation, implementation planning, and evaluation of the NAN Mental Health Plan.
- · Develop annual and multi-year workplans, establish priorities and timelines, monitor progress, identify risks and barriers, and adjust implementation approaches as required.
- · Manage the Mental Health portfolio’s financial, human, and program resources,



including budget development, forecasting, expenditure monitoring, variance management, approvals, and year-end reconciliation.
- · Ensure required financial, narrative, output, and outcome reporting is accurate, supported by records, and submitted within required timelines.
- · Oversee community and partner investments, contracts, professional services, and related accountability requirements, ensuring expenditures and deliverables remain connected to approved mental health priorities.
- · Lead or support funding proposals, renewal requests, business cases, and other submissions required to sustain or strengthen mental health initiatives.
- · Lead mental health policy analysis, advocacy, systems planning, and government relations on issues affecting NAN First Nations.
- · Prepare briefing notes, policy positions, recommendations, speaking points, reports, presentations, and other materials for the Director, Senior Management, Executive Council, NAN leadership, and external decisionmakers.
- · Monitor relevant government policy, legislation, funding changes, and health-system developments and assess potential impacts, opportunities, and risks for NAN First Nations.
- · Plan, coordinate, and facilitate engagement with NAN First Nations, Tribal Councils, community leadership and staff, youth, Elders/Knowledge Keepers,



service providers, and other groups as appropriate to the work.
- · Ensure engagement approaches are respectful, relationship-based, culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and responsive to the realities of NAN communities.
- · Identify community mental health priorities, service gaps, access barriers, referral challenges, and opportunities to strengthen local and regional capacity and service pathways.
- · Ensure community and partner feedback is documented accurately, followed up on, and incorporated into policy, planning, advocacy, and implementation where appropriate.
- · Build and maintain partnerships that improve communication, service coordination, information sharing, and continuity of care across community, regional, and provincial systems.
- · Support organizational responses to emerging mental health priorities, crises, service disruptions, and other urgent issues by coordinating information, advocacy, planning, and partner communication.
- · Coordinate research, environmental scans, policy reviews, data analysis, program evaluation, and other evidence-gathering required to inform mental health planning and advocacy.
- · Develop practical performance measures and reporting approaches that demonstrate implementation, reach, outcomes, lessons learned, and remaining service gaps without creating unnecessary reporting burden.
- · Maintain accurate and confidential records of key decisions, approvals, correspondence, engagement findings, reporting, agreements, and program documentation in accordance with NAN policies.
- · Maintain strong working relationships with NAN First Nations, Tribal Councils, r

📌 Mental Health Manager (Northeastern Ontario)
🏢 Anishinabek Employment and Training Services
📍 Northeastern Ontario