Admin and Outreach Coordinator

We’re hiring!

Admin and Outreach Coordinator

Love meeting new folks and maintaining connections?

Are you organized, detail oriented, and reliable?

Enjoy working in a supportive team environment?

Enjoy gathering people together, socially or professionally?

Want to take action on issues facing women and gender diverse people in the trades or technology sectors?

Want to see a diverse, equitable, and inclusive skilled trades industry in the territory?

• Salary: $30-32.00/hr plus benefits and 3 weeks paid vacation
• Full/Part Time: 32 hours a week at 40 hours of pay (YWITT operates on a progressive, four day work week model)
• Duration: Full time role from Aug 31, 2026- August 31, 2027 with likely extension
• Job Posting Closes August 14, 2026
• Location: Whitehorse
• Admissibility:
  • Open to candidates who identify as women, non-binary or gender-diverse.
  • All applicants must be comfortable in a space that centralizes a feminist model.
  • Hiring Preference: Yukon First Nations ancestry and Canadian Indigenous Ancestry.

WHO IS YWITT?

YWITT is located on the territory of the self-governing Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwatch’an Council. Since its incorporation in August 2000, YWITT has been working as a feminist, community non-profit organization based in Whitehorse, Yukon to advance equality in trades and technology careers. YWITT works alongside community partners and runs programs and initiatives. This includes experiential workshops, advocacy support, community-led research and policy work.

WHAT IS THE JOB?

Approximately half of this position is supporting the Executive Director at YWITT in administrative work such as office management, support for team travel, meetings, and workshops, and tracking and reporting on YWITT activities to funders.

The other half of this position will involve bolstering YWITT’s community outreach and communication with our community in support of our programming. This includes growing connections with partner groups, building relationships with industry, hosting social events, connecting learners with mentors, and working with our marketing support to make sure the news gets out about our workshops and services.

This is an exciting and dynamic position with opportunities for professional development.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Assessed through Resume/Cover Letter and Interview process):

• Experience working with computers and typical office software such as Google Workspace, Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively and diplomatically
• Experience working with, managing and fostering collaboration in community
• Excellent time management and ability to manage multiple priorities in dynamic environment, and an ability to adapt to changing needs
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Familiarity with Yukon First Nations and Northern Indigenous peoples
• Experience working with day to day business finance an asset
• Experience working with Canva an asset
• Experience with proposals and activity reporting an asset
• Experience working in trades, technology or industry is an asset
• Experience working in a non-profit setting is an asset

Administrative Support

• Working with a budget and cash flow
• General record retention and documentation
• Writing, editing and preparing reports
• Provide administration support to management and other staff including: responding to public inquiries and maintaining office equipment etc.
• Taking notes at or after meetings and documenting ongoing work using words, pictures, video, or other creative means
• Soliciting oral and/or written feedback from different people about our activities and events
• Sharing your ideas, ongoing feedback, and reflections as part of our learning and team process

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop and nurture relationships with community members
• Develop and nurture relationships with and between critical community partners such as with service providers, business partners, First Nations partners, municipal and territorial partners with the support other programming staff
• Office administration
• Booking programming spaces and purchasing and transporting supplies when necessary
• Writing reports
• Event management
• Willingness to work in a team environment and support team projects and/or events as needed

Working Conditions​

The Admin and Outreach Coordinator reports to and is supervised by the Executive Director.

This position is located in an open office environment and may involve travel to communities throughout Yukon. Additionally, this position must work collaboratively with many community partners including our program partners

Our office is based out of Whitehorse, though we are open for some of this work to be done remotely. For those with capacity and availability, this work may include visiting communities, so it’s a big plus for us if you are connected to other towns and nations outside Whitehorse.

Conditions of Employment

• Mandatory confidentiality is a condition of employment of all personnel.
• A Class 5 Drivers License is required

To apply, send a resume and a cover letter to [email protected]: Please feel free to email, call, or text (867) 667-4441 if you have any questions.