Apply By: May 15, 2026

Job Description:

Shuswap Band is seeking a Language Coordinator to work with the Shuswap Band community to help build, implement, and monitor our Language Revitalization programming, including Silent Speakers, Accelerated Language Program, NVIT Community Language Learning, and other programs. With a passion for culture and language that shines through both personally and professionally, the ideal candidate for this position will collaborate with the members of the Culture Department and the community to ensure Secwepemctsín is present at events, within the administrative office, and throughout the community. As coordinator, they will ensure that each Language program runs smoothly and that barriers are removed to allow community access to language learning, while working with Instructors and Language Specialists to understand all aspects of program delivery.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct daily administrative duties that include checking emails, answering phone calls, communicating directly with Band members, coordinating meetings, and helping to organize program needs.
- Conduct weekly duties that include processing accounts payables, completing tasks associated with various language programs, and supporting the language strategic plan development.
- Provide reports on program progress to relevant members of senior management.
- Follow up with people executing language activities to develop language speaking skills, ensuring additional support is provided as needed.
- Work with the Shuswap community and contracted Technical Writer to develop a 5-year Language Learning Action Plan.
- Communicate and work with the Culture department to align on projects, events,



and activities where possible.
- Organize monthly consultations with Band members in ways that work for them. Host language circles, small meetings, and when necessary, go house to house and document meeting outcomes and results.
- Review language activities with Language Specialist and Language Co-Instructors, review attendance and reception of activities by Band members, provide recommendations on how to improve programs.
- Meet quarterly with language departments from other Secwepemc Nations to share experiences and learnings, to develop an understanding of what makes a good language program.
- Potential to travel to other communities within the Secwepemc Nation to learn about their language programming to inform Shuswap Band’s practices.
- Review strategic plan quarterly to see what is working, what is not working, and what needs to be changed. Identify what additional consultation with community needs to be done.

Qualifications:

· Well organized, qualified, and reliable.

· Demonstrate writing skills and be able to use a computer.

· Willing to work with and learn from a language specialists and instructors.

· Customer service and general administrative experience.

· Able to communicate clearly and professionally both orally and in writing.





· Understand general practice of maintaining confidentiality and honouring individual

privacy.

· Collaborate effectively with community members, band staff and external partners.

Easily relates to Band members and respect Elders.

· Understanding of the Shuswap Band community, culture, and Secwepemc values.

· Desire to learn or ability to speak some Secwepemc Language Eastern Dialect would be an asset.

· Thoughtful, mature and a great listener. Has the ability to compile, combine and share ideas.

· Able to provide a cleared RCMP Criminal Record Check.

· Possess a Drivers License with a clean drivers abstract.

· Must be able to work onsite, in Invermere, BC.

· Must be willing to work outside of regular working hours as needed (to hold consultations, special events etc.)

Shuswap Band offers a wide variety of perks including:

· 2 weeks paid holiday over Christmas in addition to annual vacation

· Employer matched pension plan after 3 months

· Extensive health and benefits package

· Dynamic work environment

We value diversity and welcome all qualified candidates to apply. Employment and promotion of an Indigenous person or Shuswap Band members will be administered in a fair and reasonable manner and is consistent with the Canadian Human Rights Commission Policy on “Aboriginal Employment Preference.”

Please email your application to [email protected] with the subject line “Language Coordinator – Application” by the closing date above to apply.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $24.00-$29.00 per hour

Expected hours: 32.5 per week

Work Location: In person

📌 Language Coordinator (Invermere)
🏢 Shuswap Band
📍 Invermere