African Nova Scotian Employment Lab

Are you an African Nova Scotian job seeker looking for meaningful career opportunities? Or an employer searching for skilled, diverse talent to grow your team? Whether you’re building your future or strengthening your workforce, we’re here to connect you with the right resources, support, and opportunities. Join our network today and take the next step toward success!

Our Mission

By collaborating with employers, intermediaries, and community we aim to create and fill 575 meaningful jobs. By targeting this critical number, we strive to address the disproportionate rates of underemployment and unemployment, where Black people in Nova Scotia are twice as likely, and African Nova Scotians are four times as likely, to face these challenges.

African Nova Scotians are a distinct People who descend from free and enslaved Black Planters, Black Loyalists, Black Refugees, Maroons and other Black people who inhabited the original 52 land-based Black communities in that part of Mi’kma’ki known as Nova Scotia

Manager, Marketing Strategy & Brand


The Manager, Marketing Strategy & Brand leads a team of marketers responsible for developing long-term, data-driven strategies that strengthen brand equity and drive customer engagement. 

Executive Director, Accessibility Directorate

As Executive Director, you will provide strategic leadership at the provincial level on accessibility and disability issues. You will guide the implementation of the Accessibility Act, and ensure the Accessibility Directorate operates with excellence, accountability and impact. 

Culture of Growing Coordinator

The youth are provided hands-on agricultural and entrepreneurship training with the goal to increase employment opportunities and develop employment skills by exposing participants to careers along the agri-food spectrum, from growing crops to entrepreneurship to research.

MOSH Registered Nurse

You will develop your skills and experience as an Apprentice, working at one or more of our repair shops throughout the Region. The machinery and equipment that you will service is used for snow and ice removal, repairs, and maintenance for the provincial road network.