We’re hiring a Director of Africentric Education and Lifelong Learning!

The Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI) invites our communities to share an important employment opportunity. We are seeking to fill an inaugural role within DBDLI: Director, Africentric Education and Life-long Learning. We are seeking a caring, values-driven leader who believes deeply in the power of education to heal, affirm, and uplift African Nova Scotian communities. 

This role is rooted in Ubuntu—the understanding that I am because we are. At the heart of this role is service and servitude. The Director, Africentric Education and Life-long Learning will guide the education pillar of DBDLI with care, humility, and purpose—supporting teams, strengthening partnerships, and ensuring that our programs have impact and reflect the hopes, needs, and strengths of the African Nova Scotian and Africentric communities we serve. 

As Director, you will provide meaningful change for and with communities by: 

  • Helping to shape safe, affirming learning spaces where learners of African Nova Scotian and African ancestry, educators, and communities can thrive. 
  • Mentoring and supporting your staff team in a way that builds confidence, leadership, accountability, and shared responsibility. 
  • Strengthening Africentric curricula and life-long learning pathways that reflect community wisdom, lived experience, and academic excellence all with a lens of Ubuntu. 
  • Fostering unity and connection across communities, universities, and partners throughout Nova Scotia and beyond. 
  • Advocating for educational equity and amplifying voices of African Nova Scotian and African ancestry in their knowledge and leadership. 

We are looking for someone who brings not only experience, but heart—someone who understands the history of African Nova Scotian communities and is motivated by a desire to give back, lift others up, and walk alongside community members with respect and care. This role is well suited for a leader who values collaboration, listens deeply, and leads with integrity, compassion, and purpose. 

Joining DBDLI means becoming part of a family grounded in Unity, Affirmation, Respect, Humanity, Community, and Compassion. It is an opportunity to help strengthen an Africentric learning institute that exists to serve, to affirm, and to build a future where African Nova Scotian communities are fully supported, resourced, and celebrated. 

We welcome and warmly encourage community members, educators, and partners to widely share this opportunity and invite those who feel called to serve the community through a life-long love of community and Africentric education to consider stepping forward. We strongly encourage African Nova Scotians from our 50+ historic land-based communities and multi-generational Black Canadians to apply for this position. 

We’re presently accepting Expressions of Interest for the Director of Africentric Education and Lifelong Learning role at DBDLI. We are fostering a more relational recruitment experience through a two-step process: first, through a short expression of interest phase; second, by inviting selected applicants to apply for the position.  

Please respond to the Expression of Interest process by Friday, April 3, 2026.

The Expression of Interest process is available through VideoAsk using the link above or the button below. 

If you have comments, feedback, questions, or require any accommodations through the application process please email us programs@dbdli.ca.