Junior Health Promoter

Employer Name: Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigaming (WNHAC)

City: Kenora

Province: Ontario

Postal Code: P0X 1C0

Application Deadline: September 17th, 2025

Phone: (888) MYWNHAC

Email: hrteam@wnhac.org

Hours of Work: 6-month Contract

Job Type: Various Hours

Wages: $25.00 per hour

Duties of this LEAP Job Posting:

We provide primary health care through a range of options including prevention, assessment, diagnosis and treatment. Our teams include health professionals, educators, and support workers representing both traditional Indigenous and contemporary models of care, and use wholistic health and community development concepts.

Junior Heath Promoters support minobimaadiziwin through proactive, wholistic health promotion activities coordinated in collaboration with WNHAC providers and member communities. The focus is on primary and secondary prevention of disease through healthy, positive lifestyles. The position involves extensive travel throughout the catchment area.

NOTE:  Indigenous traditional practices involving burning sacred medicines including tobacco, sweetgrass, sage and cedar and other cultural protocols occur regularly within our work setting.

Qualifications for this LEAP Job Posting:

• OSSD, GED, or appropriate combination of relevant education and work experience;
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of wholistic health and well being;
• Experience working in an Indigenous organization and ability to understand and speak anishinaabemowin a definite asset;
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and be an effective team member; excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Willingness and ability to travel; valid drivers’ license and own vehicle required;
• Criminal record/vulnerable sector check and current drivers’ abstract required;
• Proof of immunization in compliance with policy requirements is mandatory:
• Commitment to ongoing training and professional development relevant to job requirements;
• Positive attitude and capacity to act as a healthy lifestyle role model.

How To Apply to this LEAP Job Posting:

Please send resume with covering letter and three references, to:

Junior Health Promoter Position
Email: hrteam@wnhac.org
Website: WNHAC.org
Fax: (807) 467-8341
Phone: (888) MYWNHAC

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position; however, please note only those elected for an interview will be contacted. As an Indigenous employer we encourage First nations, Inuit, and Metis applicants to apply.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities and will provide accessibility accommodations as part of the application process upon request.

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