21 Oct
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Metis Nation of Ontario
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Barrie
21 Oct
Metis Nation of Ontario
Barrie
About the Role:
The Project Coordinator provides integrated coordination, administrative, and engagement support for the Lands, Resources and Consultation (LRC) Branch. The role supports multiple concurrent consultation and engagement files related to transmission infrastructure, energy development, and other resource-based projects (including electricity transmission and nuclear-related infrastructure).
The position acts as a central coordination point for consultation intake, project tracking, engagement logistics, records management, and communications support across Regional Consultation Committees (RCCs), communities, internal teams, and external stakeholders. The role ensures accurate documentation, timely coordination of consultation activities, effective information flow, and adherence to LRC consultation mandates, policies, and confidentiality requirements in a politically sensitive environment.
What You Will Be Doing:
The incumbent is responsible for the following items, as well as other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned by the Designated Approving Authority:
- Coordinate intake, sorting, and tracking of consultation notifications, inquiries, and correspondence by region and project type.
- Provide coordination support for consultation, engagement, and project activities (including transmission, energy, and other infrastructure projects).
- Maintain centralized records systems, SharePoint libraries, and filing structures ensuring accuracy, consistency, and confidentiality.
- Schedule and coordinate meetings, consultations, workshops, community sessions, site visits, and internal planning sessions.
- Prepare agendas, briefing materials, presentations, reports,
and supporting documentation for engagement and consultation activities.
- Record accurate meeting minutes, summaries, and records of decisions, including tracking action items and follow-ups.
- Track project deliverables, commitments, consultation milestones, and branch performance indicators across active files.
- Coordinate logistics including travel, accommodations, venues, catering, transportation, and related service arrangements.
- Process administrative and financial documentation including purchase orders, invoices, expense claims, and vendor coordination.
- Develop and maintain communications materials including notices, engagement content, plain-language summaries, and website updates.
- Support Records of Consultation development by compiling engagement documentation, correspondence, and project histories.
- Liaise with RCCs, Métis communities, leadership, government representatives, consultants, and proponents regarding consultation activities.
- Support cross-branch coordination to ensure alignment of consultation activities, engagement delivery, and operational priorities.
- Maintain professionalism in sensitive environments (including energy and regulated infrastructure projects such as transmission and nuclear-related developments), ensuring confidentiality, neutrality, and compliance with organizational protocols.
- Participate in internal team meetings, project planning sessions, and regional engagement activities to support the effective delivery of consultation and coordination objectives.
- Maintain professional working relationships that promote the values, objectives, and consultation mandate of the Métis Nation of Ontario. Promoting the values of the organization within the workplace and in the community by demonstrating positive and professional relationships with others (employees, citizens, council, volunteers, advocates, etc.)
- Reporting all unsafe conditions, hazards or practices, accidents and incidents in accordance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and adhering to all Health and Safety requirements within the
MNO’s policies and procedures and provincial legislation.
- Performing other job/branch-related duties as required. There may be changes in daily duties requiring a change in priorities with different timelines, priorities and urgencies.
Qualifications:
- College Diploma (1 or 2 year)
- 1 to 3 years of experience
- Experience working in an office environment.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English (French would be considered an asset).
- Experience with computer programs (Microsoft Office Suite) and office equipment (Photocopier, postage machine etc.)
- Ability to type 50wpm.
- Attention to detail, accuracy.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to multi-task and the ability to assist with different types of requests often under pressure.
- Ability to remain adaptable.
- Experience in performing administrative duties and file management.
- Custome
📌 Project Coordinator, Transmission (Barrie)
🏢 Metis Nation of Ontario
📍 Barrie