HUMMINGBIRD INDIGENOUS FAMILY SERVICES MISSION AND VISION

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Healthy Indigenous babies being born into healthy Indigenous families being supported by healthy Indigenous communities. At Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services, we believe that attachment and culture are the foundations of healthy communities and that through rematriation (Returning the Sacred to the Mother), we can heal historical trauma.

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Through culturally relevant support during the perinatal period, we reduce the personal, cultural, and systemic barriers that disproportionately affect Indigenous parents while strengthening the bond between parents and connections to the community.

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SUMMARY OF POSITION

Hummingbird is looking to contract with 3-6 individuals who can edit the curriculum and lesson plans within our Pilimakua Indigenous Home Visiting Model. Our lessons need editors who can support the procedural writing, alignment, formatting, and author-voice editing of them. This work is vital to give our Indigenous communities the best quality lesson plans that are accessible and able to be implemented across many of our diverse Indigenous communities.

Within our Indigenous Curriculum & Special Projects Department, Hummingbird IFS has been working to develop the Pilimakua Indigenous Home Visiting Model (PIHV Model). The PIHV Model is an Indigenous home visiting curriculum model to support positive parent and child outcomes within Indigenous (American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) home visiting families, with children ages 0-3. Our model is rooted in reciprocal knowledge sharing of Indigenous Language & Culture Reclamation and Sustainability, Caregiver Mindfulness & Self-Compassion, and Child Development. We guide home visitors in supporting their home visiting families with Indigenous Sovereignty, flexibility, and accuracy.

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Attend an in-person 3-day Editing Retreat in Columbia City, WA sometime within November/December
• During that retreat:
  
  • Within the same curriculum topic, edit a set of lesson plans via a lesson-plan/ technical-writing lens, for example:
    
    • Add steps to activities to make sure anyone would be able to complete them if just following those steps
    • Organize the information for accessibility
    • Align the lesson plans’ voice and formatting
  • Re-format those lesson plans for better accessibility and readability
  • Add references to those specific lesson plans (if needed)

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REQUIRED SKILLS AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• 15-20 years of personal and/or professional experience working closely with American Indian, Alaska Native, Kānaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian, and/or Pasifika communities.
• Experience in writing and editing, preferred if the experience is in curriculum and lesson plans
• Desire to work in a high-volume, fast-paced environment
• Highly self-motivated with attention to detail
• Proficiency in Google Drive
• Sensitive awareness of diverse cultural, socio-economic, and lifestyle backgrounds.
• Strong verbal and written communication and skills.
• Work independently with regular contact and collaboration with the ICSP Department Team
• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality and protect unpublished, proprietary, or culturally sensitive information
• Ability to recognize when content requires review by an Elder, Indigenous knowledge holder
• Other Logistical Requirements
  
  • Able to attend an in-person 3-day Editing Retreat in Columbia City, WA sometime within November/December.

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COMPENSATION:

A contractor rate of $50/hour for 21-24 hours over the 3-day Editing Retreat (so a total of $1,200).

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LOCATION:

This position is an-person contracted position that would attend an in-person 3-day Editing Retreat in Columbia City, WA sometime within November/December. Must live locally to apply.

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WORK SCHEDULE:

An in-person 3-day Editing Retreat in Columbia City, WA sometime within November/December. About 7-8 hours per day. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

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HOW TO APPLY:

Submit your resume and 1-2 writing examples from your experience (i.e. lesson plans, academic journals, recent papers, newsletters, technical writing, etc.) to Kamalei Brandon at indigenouscurriculum@hummingbird-ifs.org by 10/14/26 @ 11:59 PST. Please write “Contractor Application: Indigenous Curriculum Editor” in the subject line of the email.

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