Job Description:

REPORTING TO:             The Co-Director in the Economic Development Department.

 

Responsibilities:

• Manage Nunavik Furs Tannery staff, materials and infrastructure;
• Seasonal sealift orders, and development and managing an inventory system;
• Produce monthly sales reports;
• Develop fur processing sectors in Nunavik with a focus on job creation and facilitating economic activities;
• Develop industry specific strategic plans, labor market development, feasibility and marketing studies in collaboration with senior staff and with other partners;
• Work closely with each of the local Hunter Support Program staff and with identified industry partners:
  • Export market research (develop and expand potential export markets);
  • Assist in identifying areas of innovation, applied research and development;
• Help identify potential tanning agents as the company grows;
• Work with hunter support programs and the local trappers to bring better quality skinned furs to market;
• Promotion of the regions eco-friendly tanning methods and our traditional tanning and skinning;
• Promoting our unique product and the only Indigenous owned tannery in Quebec;
• Developing other partnership opportunities with other parts of the Arctic Regions in Canada as well as other Arctic countries;
• Be available to travel, as requested;
• Perform other related duties within the scope of the position or as requested by supervisor.

Qualifications:

• College diploma in a related field;
• Two (2) to Three (3) years of experience in management or a related field;
• Good communication skills in at least two (2) of the three (3) languages: Inuktitut, English and/or French;
• Great computer skills : Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.);
• Inuit, traditions and cultural knowledge and understanding, is an asset;
• Demonstrates the capacity to manage a team;
• Experience in sales report writing and of inventory systems;
• Experience with preparing for sealift orders and shipment of dangerous goods.

Benefits:

Benefits:                        All marginal benefits available to Makivvik employees annually as outlined in the Makivvik Human Resources Policy Manual such as:

Simplified Pension Plan

Group Insurance

Vacation:                     starting at 20 days

Sick days:                    15 days

Isolation premium:    To a maximum of $20,800

Cargo allowance:      To a maximum of $6,500

Gas allowance:          To a maximum of $3,500

Travel Benefit:             To a maximum of $25,000

Housing allowance:  To a maximum of $12,000