Office Assistant Required Immediately!

Deadline September 9, 2010

Provides a variety of administrative and secretarial assistance in an office. Produces reports from a variety of information sources and databases. Tracks office or program expenditures. Reception duties as required.

Education Requirements: Grade 12 plus completion of a program of up to one (1) year in secretarial training, business or office administration

  

Contact: Executive Director Allan Weselowski via ed@mscbc.org

  

  

Provide a resume and references

Wages: $12-14 depending on experience

with benefit package!!

4 days per week

  

For more information please see Job description at:

www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca  (under Administration)

  

  

To the Metis Community Services Society of BC

 

Accountant

Required Immediately!

Deadline September 14, 2010

The Accountant takes direction from the Executive Director and is responsible for providing financial, clerical, and administrative support in order to ensure effective, efficient and accurate financial and administrative operations.

 Scope

The Accountant reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for providing financial, administrative and clerical services. This includes processing and monitoring payments and expenditures and preparing and monitoring the payroll system. Providing these services in an effective and efficient manner will ensure that non profit finances are accurate and up to date, that all staff is paid in a timely and appropriate manner and that proponents and reporting requirements are met within established time limits.The Accountant maintains MCSSBC books using Simply Accounting by reconciling expense accounts, preparing reports for the Executive Director and the Board, handling payroll and keeping the general ledger balanced. The Accountant maintains sensitivity of Métis cultures and traditions.

Key job tasks/duties/responsibilities of accounting clerk

  1. Ensures financial recording accuracy and compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and established internal controls and procedures. Investigates and follows up to discuss, correct or report unusual or questionable entries or account balances.
  2. Codes, records and posts transactions in journals and the general ledger, including complex transactions such as lease, amortization and major asset acquisition.
  3. files, including filing of general ledger journal, accounts payable/receivable, and other miscellaneous filings and ensures non-profit and charity status is maintained from an Accountant perspective.
  4. Collects, researches, organizes and summarizes data from a variety of sources and produces reports such as program status and board reports.
  5. Analyzes, produces trial balances of, and reconciles balance sheet accounts; makes adjustments as necessary.

Wage

$14-$18, depending on experience

For more information please see description at: www.aboriginalcanada.org (under Administration or Finance)

MÉTIS PROCLAMATION

Defining Who We Are

  

  

  

We are Métis, with roots and rights that extend 9,000 years into this continent.

We are neither First Nations nor Inuit, nor are we European immigrants to this land, instead we are the middle-ground between camps; the compromise between differences and; the dawn that separates night and day.

We are not half-breeds, but the children born of a marriage between two very different worlds. Our right and our purpose is to strengthen the voice of justice and bend the arm of greed, whose hand has taken far too much from the mouths of the meek.

The very duality of our heritage appoint us, and no other, to the task of mediating between the new and ancient ways, that we might be the People to strike a chord of lasting harmony amidst the mounting chaos of nations.

The essence of our uniquely diverse culture is Harmony, or in the moment of our conception there was union. The birth of the Métis Nation signifies the undeniable powers of those possessed of tolerance and the gentle spirit of compromise. The birthright of our people is to mediate on behalf of justice and common good for both our parent strains, and bring forth a means of governance that protects and prospers all who would be unjustly treated.

To be Métis is to be blessed with the best fruit of not one, but two family trees. We are not "half" of anything but doubled.

Being twice blessed, we are likewise proud, strong and determined.

  

                                                                                                                           By: Terry St. Amant

  

  

Our Mandate, Mission Statement, Vision and Values

  

Our Mandate

Métis Community Services Society of BC has a mandate from the Métis citizens to provide integrated, holistic, family centered, wraparound services to all those who need assistance, with special emphasis on Aboriginal populations, specifically Métis populations.

  

Mission Statement

  • Métis Community Services Society of BC is a non-profit Society that is recognized and empowered by Métis citizens in British Columbia to provide holistic services that ensure the health and well being of the Métis community.

  

  • Métis Community Services Society of BC will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by increasing cultural awareness to the communities in British Columbia, which reflects our unique heritage.

  

  • Métis Community Services Society of BC will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by honoring and supporting the importance of a healthy family environment in the delivery of holistic programs and services.

  

  • Métis Community Services Society of BC will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by encouraging stronger relationships among Métis Elders and our youth and our families and our community.

  

Our Vision

  • We will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by increasing cultural awareness to the communities in British Columbia, which reflects our unique heritage.

  

  • We will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by honoring and supporting the importance of a healthy family environment in the delivery of holistic programs and services.

  

  • We will promote the health and well being of the Métis community by encouraging stronger relationships among Métis Elders,our youth, our families and our community.

  

Our Values

  • We believe in honoring our Métis culture and in fostering pride in our history.

  

  • We believe in focusing in on family strengths knowing that there are many resources and much knowledge within our Métis families.

  

  • We believe in working professionally, confidentially, and respectfully with our clients, practicing ethically at all times.

  

  • We believe in creating a safe and nurturing environment in which people will be open to change and growth.

  

  • We believe when you heal a child you heal a family, when you heal a family you heal a community and when you heal a community you heal a Nation.

  

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