Elder - Knowledge Keeper - Nitelazetue Elementary School -La Loche

Northern Lights School Division; La Loche; On-site; CAD 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lights School Division seeks an Elder - Knowledge Keeper at Nitelazetue Elementary School in La Loche. This full-time, school-based position supports cultural education, preserves oral tradition, and partners with teachers to integrate First Nations knowledge and language across the curriculum.

You will teach traditional skills such as trapping, beading, storytelling, and smudging, foster pride and belonging among students, meet with at-risk youths, and support parent groups.

Qualifications

• Fostering atmosphere of pride, respect, and trust.
• Preservation of traditional knowledge and oral tradition.
• Assisting with First Nations and Métis knowledge, language, and traditional skills.
• Teaching traditional and cultural skills such as trapping, fishing, beading, storytelling, and smudging.
• Teaching cultural life skills to promote mastery, generosity, independence, and belonging.
• Meeting with at-risk youths.
• Assisting with parent support groups.

Responsibilities

• Foster an atmosphere of pride, respect and trust.
• Assist with preservation of traditional knowledge and oral tradition.
• Support teachers with First Nations and Métis knowledge and language.
• Teach traditional skills such as trapping, fishing, beading, storytelling, and smudging.
• Promote mastery, generosity, independence and belonging through cultural life skills.
• Meet with at-risk youths and support families.

Skills

Cultural knowledge

Oral tradition

First Nations knowledge

Beading

Storytelling

Job description

Elder - Knowledge Keeper - Nitelazetue Elementary School -La Loche JobID: 970

• Position Type:
  School Based Support - Cultural/ Elder - Knowledge Keeper
• Date Posted:
  8/24/2026
• Location:
  La Loche - Nitelazetue Elementary School

FTE: Full Time

Term of Employment: continuing, temporary (add end date), permanent

Salary and Benefits: $27.80 - $32.52 per hour -According to education and experience.

Qualifications and Responsibilities:

• Helping to foster an atmosphere and environment of pride, respect, and trust.
• Assisting with the preservation of traditional knowledge and oral tradition.
• Assisting classroom teachers with First Nations and Metis knowledge, language, and traditional skills.
• Teaching traditional and cultural skills such as trapping, fishing, beading, storytelling, and smudging.
• Teaching cultural life skills to promote mastery, generosity, independence, and belonging.
• Meeting with at-risk youths.
• Assisting with parent support groups.

For more information on the school and community, please contact the Superintendent of Education, at ,or the Principal, at ,or visit our website atnlsd113.ca .

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those applicants shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. Please note that present and past employers may be contacted.

NLSD is committed to employment equity and building a representative workforce. Applications are encouraged from members of equity-seeking groups, including Indigenous Peoples (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit), persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and women in underrepresented occupations. Qualified Indigenous candidates may be given preference in accordance with the Division's Employment Equity procedures and objectives.