Empowering Communities in the Arctic: A Visit to Arctic Bay’s Indigenous Stewardship Program

Since 2018, CJRF has supported guardians in the Arctic through Makeway, which hosts the Northern Indigenous Stewardship Circle, a network of communities with guardian programs across the Canadian North. In October 2023, I visited the Inuit community of Arctic Bay and spent time with the local guardian crew. My visit revealed the remarkable ways in which this program is not just a response to climate change, but also a beacon of hope and resilience.

CJRF Is Hiring - Program Officer

CJRF seeks to employ an organized, collaborative, insightful, and flexible Program Officer to support the initiatives, including:

  • the design and execution of successful multi-stakeholder processes;

  • administration of grants made via the initiatives;

  • harvesting lessons from the participatory grantmaking experience;

  • supporting exchange of lessons among participants in the various initiatives; and

  • facilitating integration of priorities and lessons learned into CJRF Board decisions and grantmaking systems.