Ktunaxa Nation Council (KNC) is seeking an accomplished senior executive to translate established Leadership direction into coordinated, accountable, and timely organizational action.
- Direction and alignment: Translate Leadership direction into clear operational mandates, priorities, performance expectations, and coordinated action across directors, teams, and resources.
- Transformation and continuity: Implement approved organizational changes through practical timelines, transition planning, implementation analysis, risk management, and consistent follow-through while sustaining current workplans and essential services.
- Operational accountability: Establish clear expectations and guardrails; hold directors accountable; strengthen policy, protocol, complaint, investigation, documentation, and evidence-based decision processes.
- People leadership: Coach and support directors, clarify roles, ensure appropriate capacity and expertise, address performance and relationship concerns early, and build confidence that workplace concerns will be handled fairly and respectfully.
- Relationships and communication: Maintain close, respectful, and productive relationships with the Nasuʔkin, Ktunaxa First Nations’ senior management, directors, staff, governments, industry, and United States Ktunaxa/Kootenai Tribes. Provide regular, timely, and transparent reports that support discussion, feedback, and informed decisions.
- Strategic judgment and execution: Assess complex information and relational impacts, identify risks and policy gaps, distinguish legitimate concerns from unverified information, prioritize the most important issues, delegate appropriately, and move practical solutions forward with urgency and care.
- Cultural and contextual leadership: Ensure technical expertise and organizational practices are applied through a Ktunaxa worldview and support community-driven, Nation-based priorities rather than individual agendas or default Western assumptions.