Position: Quality Assurance Worker (Child Well-Being Law Development and Jurisdictional Readiness)

Department: Health and Wellness

Classification/Level: CS-4

Employment Status: Regular Full time

Reporting Relationship

M’Chigeeng First Nation is committed to strengthening community wellness and is undertaking a multi-year initiative to develop a Nation-based Child Well-Being Law and a culturally grounded community-care model rooted in prevention, self-determination, and Anishinaabe values. As a vibrant and united community of the Anishinabek of the Three Fires Confederacy, M’Chigeeng is guided by a vision of being a proud, progressive, and Ojibwe-speaking Nation where people are healthy, self-reliant, and grounded in their responsibilities to Mother Earth.

Position Summary

The Quality Assurance (QA) Worker plays a central role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and cultural safety of all activities and deliverables within Year 1 of M’Chigeeng First Nation’s Child Well-Being Law Development and Jurisdiction Readiness Project. This position provides independent oversight across engagement, research, service review, and reporting processes to ensure alignment with:

- The Year 1 Workplan
- ISC Jurisdiction Readiness and FNCFS requirements
- M’Chigeeng First Nation’s cultural values, community expectations, and vision for self-determination

The QA Worker strengthens the credibility of all Year 1 outputs—including the Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Service Gap Analysis, Engagement Reports, and foundational elements of the Community Care Model by ensuring they are methodologically sound, culturally grounded, and technically accurate.





The QA Worker collaborates closely with the Coordinator and Community Engagement Workers, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and internal departments. The role reports directly to the Coordinator.

Essential Functions

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Assurance Framework & Oversight

- Develop and implement a Year 1 QA Framework aligned with engagement, research, service review, and prevention model activities.
- Establish quality standards for documentation, data collection, reporting, and community engagement processes.
- Ensure all methods reflect Anishinaabe values, cultural safety, trauma-informed practice, and ethical research principles.
- Monitor adherence to timelines, deliverables, and ISC jurisdiction readiness requirements.
- Identify risks, gaps, or deviations from the Workplan and recommend corrective actions.

Data Integrity, Validation & Documentation Review

- Review and validate qualitative and quantitative data collected through engagement sessions, surveys, interviews, and service reviews.
- Ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency of all data prior to analysis or reporting.
- Maintain secure, confidential, and culturally respectful data management systems.
- Support the development and validation of the Comprehensive Needs Assessment,



Service Gap Analysis and Engagement Summaries and Thematic Reports.

- Identify inconsistencies or missing information and work with the engagement and research teams to resolve them.

Performance Measurement & Monitoring

- Track Year 1 performance indicators, including number and diversity of engagement sessions, participation metrics, emerging themes and findings and service review outcomes.

- Develop monitoring tools such as checklists, templates, and tracking sheets.
- Analyze progress against milestones and identify areas requiring adjustment.
- Provide QA insights to strengthen methodologies and ensure alignment with the prevention continuum and community care model.

Reporting, Analysis & Accountability

- Review and refine draft reports prepared by engagement, research, and service review teams.
- Ensure all deliverables meet high standards of clarity, accuracy, cultural appropriateness, and ISC documentation requirements.
- Prepare QA summaries, analysis reports, and findings for Chief Council, Elders and advisory groups, ISC Quarterly Progress Reports, and the Coordinator and Enaagdenjged.

- Support the Coordinator in preparing planning documents, recommendations, and governance updates.

Service Review Quality Monitoring

- Review assessments of Prevention Services, First Nation Representative Services, Post-Majority Support Services and Jordan’s Principle Services.

- Validate that service review findings accurately reflect community needs, strengths, and gaps.
- Ensure alignment between service review outcomes and the emerging prevention continuum and community care model.

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