Overview This competition is open to all applicants however; internal candidates and applicants who were former employees of the University of Alberta will be given priority consideration before external candidates. Please log in to verify your internal candidate status. This position has an initial appointment of 1 year, with the potential to extend for another 4 years. Location - This role is in-person; however, some travel may be required. Additionally, this position is eligible for the hybrid Work From Home Program. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton. Over the next five years, the Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality (CAIR) project will bring together 25 research projects housed with partners in Indigenous communities and other post-secondary institutions in Canada and the United States. The work of the grant seeks to research the contributions that Indigenous relationality makes towards Indigenous nationhood and knowledge production. The overarching goal of the project is to provide spaces, resources, and support for Indigenous scholars and community partners to critically explore relationality in localized contexts and engage in collaborative, applied forms of inquiry and knowledge mobilization surrounding relationality at intersocietal scales. Each of the 25 sub-research projects responds to the main question through one of three core themes: Theorizing and transforming Indigenous governance systems Critical, local, and global approaches to Indigenous relationality Honouring our elders and training our youth through intergenerational knowledge transfer The successful candidate will support the CAIR Directors to advance the projects three overarching objectives: Strengthening Indigenous research networks to support local, regional, and intersocietal knowledge exchange; Using a decentralized research program to theorize relational practices, pedagogies, and methodologies; and Advancing innovative knowledge-mobilization techniques focused on societal engagement. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Project Manager, Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality (CAIR)