Emergency Management Coordinator (Winnipeg Office) – Employment Opportunity

Location: Winnipeg Sub Office

Job Description and Role:

The Emergency Management Coordinator will work to improve community safety by addressing the following areas:

• Mitigation and Prevention: involves activities which reduce or eliminate the effects of an emergency disaster.
• Preparedness: Actions taken prior to an emergency or disaster to ensure an effective response. This can include training, community engagement, emergency preparedness education, and communication plans.
• Response: Involves actions taken to respond to an emergency.
• Recovery: Includes the activities required to return the community to its pre-emergency state.

The Emergency Management Coordinator will provide a high-level of project coordination and require strong and effective working relationships with colleagues, superiors, communities, and health service partners and organizations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Facilitate and coordinate development of Community Emergency Plans
• Liaise, establish, develop and maintain relationships with government, emergency services, communities and external organizations
• Determine and identify community training needs as necessary and develop training plans that support community requirements and recommendations
• Provide support to community command centres during emergencies and evacuations
• Monitor all emergency situations in communities and keep a record of situation reports and outcomes.
• Write proposals to seek funding for emergency preparedness, mitigation, recovery, and forest fuel management

Qualifications

• Emergency Management related certificate, diploma or degree, or relevant experience may be considered
• Knowledge of the pillars of Emergency Management
• Knowledge of the local communities and Nation
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, and Teams)
• Able to build and maintain strong working relationships with communities and partners

Working Conditions

• Travel throughout the nation
• Ability to work flexible hours and available to be on-call and respond to emergency requests with short notice

Salary will be based on qualifications and experience.

Only those persons selected for an interview will be contacted. All applicants for this position must be received no later than 4:00pm June 19, 2026, or until a suitable candidate is found.

Please email a cover letter, a copy of your resume, and two (2) professional references to; Gloria Munroe, A/Executive Assistant to Oh-Mamow-Pimochikeh gloriam@aonation.org. Preference will be given to Indigenous people and applicants are asked to self-declare in their cover letter or resume.