Join Our Team
Core Team Members participate in the day-to-day activities, offering support to other members in all areas of the journal. Assigned tasks will vary and are dependent on current operations and priorities of the journal, as well as your availability, specialty, and capacity. Indigenous and non-Indigenous graduate students and community members are welcome to apply.
We are recruiting for the following volunteer positions:
Editors
Communications
Peer Review
Graphic Designers
Position Descriptions
(Co-)Editor
The Editor/Co-Editors oversee journal publication, ensuring that issues are in line with the TIJIH vision, community/advisory guidance, and are produced according to TIJIH guidelines and values.
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The Editors will ensure that a given issue contributes critical scholarship to the specific vision and goals for that issue, and will produce an opening editorial.
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The Editors and Peer Review Coordinators will lead putting together a panel of peer-reviewers and verify that each paper meets the issue theme and author submission guidelines.
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Editors are responsible for providing feedback to reviewers when required and for ensuring the constructive nature of reviewer feedback to authors.
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They will negotiate conflict between authors and reviewers if required. Ideally, Editors will have excellent writing skills, knowledge of Indigenous peoples’ health, and strength invoking two-eyed seeing. Co-Editors may choose to split the working streams within TIJIH, where one editor leads editorial activities and one editor leads the CoP.
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A Junior Editor may be recruited to receive mentorship in the editorial process and leadership from the Co-Editors.
Communications Coordinator
The Communications Coordinators will be responsible for managing the social media platforms.
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Communications Coordinators should be familiar with TIJIH's existing social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Slack.
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Communications Coordinators should also be familiar or willing to learn how to manage websites (e.g. Wixsite) and mailing lists (SendinBlue, Mailchimp).
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The Communications Coordinators may produce innovative content such as videos, podcasts, etc.
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They will create content to promote upcoming events including calls for papers and peer reviewers.
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The Communications Coordinators may also lead the promotion of team recruitment and organized events.
Copy-Editor
The Copy-Editors will receive the author’s revised draft following the peer review stage.
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Copyeditors will check for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and consistency.
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Copyeditors will be responsible for formatting the issue before the final online publication.
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Attention to detail and strong writing skills are desirable
Graphic Designer
The Graphic Designers are responsible for formatting the journal issues.
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Graphic Designers should be familiar with Adobe InDesign, Wixsite, and key considerations when producing digital and print issues.
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The Graphic Designers will work alongside the Communications Coordinators to ensure consistency in branding across all platforms (website, social media).
Peer Reviewer
The Peer Reviewers support the assessment of validity, quality, and originality of submissions for publication. Both academic and community reviewers contribute to the peer review process.
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Peer Reviewers are called to support the process as needed. However, we welcome applications on an ongoing basis.
Peer Review Coordinator
The Peer Review Coordinators will manage the editorial workflow. In particular, they will liaise between authors, peer reviewers, and the Core Team in a timely manner.
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Duties include verifying completed submission packages, matching submissions with peer reviewers, and ensuring suggested edits by peer reviewers are addressed by authors.
Regional Coordinator
The Regional Coordinators establish and assist with the organization of Regional Teams.
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Regional teams will define how local Indigenous communities will be represented by TIJIH and will act as an extension of the Core Team.
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In particular, Regional Coordinators will be central in the journal submission process or Community Support Process (see Report for more details). While the time commitment of this role will vary, we estimate 3-6 hours bi-weekly.
General Members
General Members can apply on an ongoing basis. The role of a General Member may involve providing support across TIJIH including but not limited to the editorial process, community engagement activities, and communications. General Members may choose to join a specific team in the future.
Our Working Streams
