We’re now hiring a: Housing Coordinator

Location: Calgary, Alberta (in-person @ Trans Housing Initiative)
Position Type: Full, Permanent (32hrs @ 5 days / week)
Compensation: $31.85/hr ($53,000 per year)
Contract Start Date: Sept 9, 2026


🌟 About Skipping Stone

Skipping Stone connects trans and gender diverse youth, adults, and families across Alberta with low-barrier access to the supports and services they need and deserve, including community and social supports as well as mental health and medical services.

Our innovative, comprehensive care model leads the way in providing affirming, inclusive, whole-person support, and has attracted national and international attention and acclaim. Since 2017, we've connected with and changed the lives of over 10,000 youth, adults, and families across the province.


🧠 About the Role

This fall, we're opening Canada's first community-led Trans Housing Initiative: 21 permanent, affordable homes in Northwest Calgary for Two-Spirit, trans, and gender diverse people navigating economic barriers. Each suite is fully furnished with its own washroom, and residents have access to a shared kitchen, common spaces, and programming they can opt into when they're ready.

Central to this vision is the Housing Coordinator, who works on-site five days a week, moving through the building and tending to shared spaces. Their presence matters because trust builds over time, in small moments and the quick conversations that happen simply because someone was already in the hallway.

They are essential in establishing and maintaining a positive culture where all residents can thrive. They help maintain shared community expectations and spaces, and act as a liaison between residents and the rest of the Skipping Stone team.

This is a community-building and housing support role, centred on communication, relationship-building, and maintaining a safe and welcoming living environment.

Please note, to ensure proper support of residents with a variety of different schedules, standard work weeks for this role includes shifts scheduled into the evenings and on Saturday.


🔍 Responsibilities

  • Build community by creating and fostering a welcoming, respectful, and caring culture

  • Help orient new residents to the building and communicate shared expectations

  • Serve as an approachable first point of contact for day-to-day communication, and provide on-site support to residents

  • Support opt-in, on-site programming for residents

  • Maintain the safety, cleanliness, and accessibility of the building, coordinating as needed with building management and contractors

  • Daily responsibilities also include common space cleaning, lifting and organizing, and minor repair work as needed


🙌 You Might Be a Great Fit If You:

  • Have lived experience as a Two-Spirit, trans, or gender diverse person

  • Have strong interpersonal and communication skills, and can navigate tricky conversations with professionalism and care

  • Are reliable and organized, and maintain consistent, healthy boundaries and self-care

  • Have a strong grounding in trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and culturally agile practices

  • Are self-motivated and excited to help build this role collaboratively from the ground up

  • Can work effectively without consistent on-site supervision

  • Have, or are willing to obtain, a criminal record clearance, child welfare intervention check, and basic First Aid

  • Prior experience in areas such as peer support, community development, housing, or property management, and/or conflict resolution, is considered an asset

  • A valid class 5 (or equivalent) driver's license and/or access to a vehicle is also considered an asset


🌱 What We Offer

  • Compensation: $31.85/hr

  • Comprehensive benefits including health/dental/mental health coverage

  • Generous vacation and leave policies

  • Flexible scheduling

  • Deeply values-aligned, trans-affirming, and justice-centered team culture


⚖ A Note on Pay & Equity

We are committed to transparent and equitable compensation. This role falls in our C2 band, which includes all frontline and direct service providing roles. Our pay structure was developed using third-party salary benchmarks, the living wage, compression limits, and a decolonial equity audit.

We especially encourage applications from Two-Spirit people, trans and gender diverse individuals, BIPOC, disabled folks, and those with lived experience navigating gender-affirming care systems.


How to Apply

Please send your CV and letter sharing your interest, approach to care, and any practice frameworks that guide your work to Juliet Burgess, Integrated Care Lead at juliet@skippingstone.ca.

If you’re unsure whether you meet all the qualifications, we still encourage you to apply as we value potential, commitment, and alignment with our values as much as credentials.

Applications End: August 4, 2026

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Skipping Stone operates on the lands of the Niitsitapi people, including the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, as well as the people of the Iyaxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina first nations. These lands are also within districts 5 & 6 of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government.