Employment Opportunity

Position Title: Child and Family Services Coordinator
Posting Date: December 8, 2025
Closing Date: Open until filled
Department: Child and Family Services
Reports To: Nation Manager
Location: 279 Jubilee Road, Muncey, Ontario

Position Summary

The Child and Family Services Coordinator will plan and direct the delivery of child welfare services within Munsee-Delaware Nation, primarily supervision of Band Representative staff and child welfare prevention staff. The Manager is responsible for providing leadership for those staff and ensuring uniformity of Munsee-Delaware Nation’s mission, vision, values, and goals. The Manager is also responsible for assessing risks identified in child welfare service delivery and ensuring consistency of standards so that all programs and service express the policies of Munsee-Delaware Nation and are within the legal framework of the
Child, Youth and Family Services Act. This position plays an active role in disseminating information and decisions of management to direct service staff and providing relevant information to senior leadership to assist with successful execution of strategic initiatives, compliance with legislative, and service delivery standards

Key Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the leadership and management of staff and services in the areas assigned, including oversight of child welfare and supporting staff in carrying out their functions to ensure effective delivery of service to the children, youth and families served by Munsee-Delaware Nation
• Plan, manage, and coordinate the allocation of work to maintain acceptable service delivery standards in a manner that balances workloads and responds to service volumes and ensures minimal disruption to children and families
• Assume supervisory oversite of cases assigned to direct reports, assess, address and/or escalate risks identified in service delivery
• Regularly review work completed by service staff and approve casework decisions including documentation, to ensure tasks are completed promptly and in accordance with Munsee-Delaware Nations policies and procedures.
• Use initiative and creativity in supervision and case conferences to dismantle bias, challenge barriers, and apply creative approaches to enhance services for families and children,
• Orient employees to the role, policies and expectations and evaluate performance, provide coaching, and build team cohesion and consistency of practice of direct reports
• Review and provide timely approvals for direct reports’ hours of work and financial expenditures
• Manage complaints from families and collaterals in accordance with the Agency’s complaint procedure

About Munsee-Delaware Nation
The Munsee Delaware Nation is a First Nation community located in southwestern Ontario. It is home to the Munsee people, a subgroup of the Lenape (Delaware) Nation, who originally lived in the northeastern United States. M-DN is committed to preserving its cultural heritage, language and traditions
while fostering economic development and self-sufficiency.