City: Toronto
Salary: N/A
Added: June 29, 2026
Indigenous Relations Leader, ICI Construction - Permanent - 19227
About the Opportunity
One of the larger construction managers in the GTA is building an Indigenous Relations function from scratch and funding it like they mean it. Not a coordinator role bolted onto a community team. Not a compliance line signed off after the bid is won. The firm runs large, community-impactful ICI projects where Indigenous engagement, partnership, and workforce participation increasingly shape both whether the work is won and how it gets delivered. They want a bonafide leader to design the function and own it at the executive table from day one.
Duties include but are not limited to:
Building the IR strategy, framework, and team from a blank page
Owning relationships with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, leadership, and economic development corporations across project catchment areas
Strong ability to speak to the stakeholders on the IR Strategy on behalf of the CM
Embedding Indigenous participation, procurement, and employment commitments into pursuits and prime contracts before the shovel hits the ground
Standing up participation and community benefit agreements, plus the reporting that holds up to owner, public, and audit scrutiny
Reporting directly to senior leadership, not through a regional or compliance layer
Working with estimating, operations, and HR so a commitment made in a pursuit is delivered on site
About You
The successful candidate will have the following:
You've led Indigenous Relations on or around large ICI or infrastructure projects, inside a builder or owner, or close to one through engagement, advisory, or community economic development
You know the difference between a land acknowledgement and a participation agreement that survives an audit
You can sit across from Chief and Council and from a VP of Construction in the same week and hold both rooms
You understand procurement set-asides, workforce development pathways, and how Indigenous employment targets actually get met on a jobsite
You can build a function: hire, set policy, measure, report. Not only advise
About the Job
A real blank-page mandate; you design the department, not someone else's version of it
An executive seat and the budget to back the commitments you make
A funded, long-term investment, not a pilot that gets cut at the first downturn
Work that changes who gets to build, and who benefits from, major projects across the region
Salary: $165,000 to $220,000 base depending on depth, plus bonus
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How to Apply
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