Indigenous Initiatives Librarian### Indigenous Initiatives LibrarianApply: McLennan Library: Posted Today: End Date: November 28, 2026 (30+ days left to apply): JR0000082708Please refer to the

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.If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar).Deadline to apply: November 27, 2026, 11:59 pmAssistant Librarian or Associate Librarian (tenure track)Duration: three years, with possibility of renewal

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salary commensurate with experience McGill University is committed to building relationships with Indigenous communities and individuals and advancing the ongoing work of truth and reconciliation. To that end, we are hiring an Indigenous Initiatives Librarian to join the McGill Libraries team and bring additional experience to a staff that already provide a number of Indigenous-focused services.
This position, for an individual with experience working with Indigenous communities or organizations, is offered with multiple options for the job portfolio; applicants should identify three to four areas of interest from the list of job duties below in their application materials.Indigeneity in and around McGill and MontrealMcGill University is on unceded land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. McGill is located closest to the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation communities at Kahnawá:ke, Kanehsatà:ke and Akwesasne. The Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is a founding nation of the Haudenosaunee/People of the Longhouse (Iroquois)



Confederacy.
The Hochelaga Monument on McGill’s Lower Campus Field commemorates the Iroquoian village of Hochelaga visited by Jacques Cartier in 1535, which was situated in the area around Mont Royal. The newly redeveloped Y-intersection (Tsi Non:we Onkwatonhnhets) nearby features a central pavement design of 13 works of art by Oneida artist Alanah Astehsi Otsistohkwa Jewell.
McGill University features a number of Indigenous programs, including an undergraduate Minor in Indigenous Studies and ad-hoc MA and PhD programs in Indigenous Language Revitalization, numerous research centres including a recent Faculty of Arts Institute for Indigenous Research and Knowledges, the Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment on the Macdonald campus, and Indigenization of professional training as part of the Social Work, Education, Law, Nursing, and Medicine programs, and in Continuing Education. The Faculty of Education, through its Office of First Nations and Inuit Education (OFNIE), provides in-community teacher certificate programs, and the School of Social Work has recently expanded its Indigenous Access McGill program to include an online Bachelor of Social Work degree delivered in Cree. In addition, McGill is working to enrol and graduate more Indigenous students through the Indigenous Tuition and Housing Strategy programs. The Office of Indigenous Initiatives (OII), guided by its Onkwehón:we Advisory Council,



is the central hub for Indigenous strategies and initiatives at McGill, including the First People’s House. McGill’s Indigenous programs and units all operate within the context of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the OCAP principles for Indigenous data sovereignty, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action and McGill’s parallel 52 Calls to Action.
The McGill Libraries host a growing suite of Indigenous-focused collections. In addition to extensive primary materials documenting the fur trade from the colonizer’s perspective, we have collections of Indigenous language dictionaries and bibles, a selection of Northern newspapers, a strong circulating collection in 20th-century history of Indigenous peoples, an up-to-date selection of Indigenous children’s literature, a growing collection of Indigenous-authored memoirs and novels, and works by Indigenous artists in our Visual Arts Collection. The Libraries maintain an active partnership with the Office of Indigenous Initiatives, periodically invite Indigenous speakers to deliver lectures, participate in cataloguing projects to make Indigenous materials more easily findable, and provide liaison services on Indigenous topics.THE McGILL UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESLocated in Montréal, one of the world’s great multicultural and multilingual cities, McGill University is internationally recognized for its excellence as a leading institution of higher education and research. For nearly 200 years, through the work of dedicated people, McGill has been breaking ground in diverse fields and contributing solutions to some of the world’s most significant issues. McGill is also the most internationall

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