Coordinator, Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Historic Places

Program stream:: Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage
Job title:: Coordinator, Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Historic Places
Organization name:: National Trust for Canada
Job location:: Ottawa, Ontario
Length of assignment:: 2021-12-01 to 2022-03-31 (17.14 weeks)
Hourly wage:: $20.00

If you love older buildings and historic places, and have a passion for Indigenous cultural heritage places and Reconciliation, consider an internship at the National Trust for Canada in Ottawa, offered jointly with the Indigenous Heritage Circle. The Trust and the Circle are national non-government heritage organizations with complementary mandates in the safeguarding of heritage places. The internship position will offer a recent graduate an extraordinary opportunity to work with both organizations on groundbreaking initiatives, connecting with leading practitioners in the preservation of Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage places in Canada. Key projects include advancing the development of a Report Card on the State of Historic Places that reflects both “conventional” historic places and places of significance to Indigenous peoples, and an Endangered Indigenous Places List. These initiatives will provide unparalleled experience in comparing and contrasting Indigenous and western approaches to identifying, safeguarding, presenting and celebrating built heritage and historic places. The intern’s work will include conducting a desk-top literature review toward developing the Report Card on the State of Historic Places, while at the same helping to develop
a detailed proposal and plan for future phase of research. It will also include collecting existing data and statistics, and presenting anecdotal evidence of the state of heritage. The intern’s work as coordinator of the Endangered Indigenous Places List will be to re-think the existing program to reflect Indigenous perspectives and places, and set criteria for including places on the list. The intern will play a role at the National Trust conference, and in webinars and publications, sharing the outcomes of these two initiatives.

We are looking for a graduate in built heritage, cultural landscapes, architecture, archaeology, planning, geography or related fields.

This 22 week internship will be carried out remotely, and/or at the Ottawa offices of the National Trust. The intern will gain invaluable varied work experience and access to a national network of Indigenous and non-Indigenous heritage professionals.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to Eliot McRae, National Trust, at
emcrae@nationaltrustcanada.ca