Nokomis Strategies

09/01/2026

If you're passionate about helping people connect, learn, and thrive through meaningful programs in Anchorage, AK, CIRI might have the right position for you. Apply at: sniplinks.in/s3B4kR

✨ We are hiring! ✨

CIRI is looking for a Shareholder & Descendant Programs Specialist to help develop innovative programs, create engaging content, and strengthen connections with CIRI Shareholders and Descendants.

If you're passionate about helping people connect, learn, and thrive through meaningful programs and thoughtful communications, we'd love to hear from you!

📍 Anchorage, Alaska
🔗 Apply now; position open until filled: sniplinks.in/s3B4kR

CIRI Shareholders and Descendants are strongly encouraged to apply!

08/27/2026

Nokomis Strategies is recruiting for the Ketchikan Indian Community Chief Financial Officer (CFO) position. We are seeking a mission-driven professional to help steward Tribal resources and support long-term community wellbeing. Position is preferred onsite in Ketchikan, AK, but remote candidates will be considered. If interested, check out the job description at www.nokomisstrategies.co/careers or call the Nokomis team at (907) 300-2742. The position will remain open until filled, with preference given to applications received by September 23.

08/26/2026

Meet Jess Sweeney. Jess is the Vice President of Operations and Strategy at Nokomis, where she wears many hats: project manager, systems builder, data analyst, and community facilitator. Before joining Nokomis, Jess spent a decade at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she built cross-agency partnerships and helped stand up national public health infrastructure.

Jess grew up in the Pacific Northwest and attended the University of Puget Sound. After college, she spent a year working on maternal and child health in Guatemala, an experience that taught her the importance of stepping outside your comfort zone, and the power of community-driven strategy in making change stick on the ground. She went on to earn her Master of Public Administration at the University of Georgia, where she met her husband and built her early career in Atlanta.

When she's not writing proposals or building Airtable interfaces, Jess loves baking, biking around the city, being a politics ju**ie, and spending time with her husband Kyle, daughter Ruby, and their cute little mutt, Neville.

08/24/2026

Here is a little "behind the scenes" at Nokomis Strategies. While most of us work fully remotely, we appreciate when we can come together to tackle a project for one of the communities we serve. Pictured here is a photo of Clayton Whiteman (left) and Chelsea Riggs (right) in the Nokomis Strategies office in Anchorage, Alaska last week.

08/19/2026

Big shout out this National Aviation Day to our aviation partner, Hixn Air Alaska! Living in Alaska has its challenges including limited roads and severe weather. Aviation companies like Hixn Air Alaska help keep so many of us connected providing life-saving supplies like food, medicine, and mail while also allowing us to continue to stay connected to the land and the abundance that it brings.

08/17/2026

It’s back to school season and Nokomis Strategies wanted to send the best of luck this school year as children return to school and parents return to a different pace of life. Dream big. Set big goals. Know that you are capable of doing more than what you think you can do and that you carry the legacy of your ancestors with you wherever you go. You can do big things.

08/14/2026

We are delighted to share that Nokomis Strategies was ranked one of the top support organizations for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) for Behavioral Health & Substance Use! Rural Care Journey is a research tool that tracks how rural care pathways, public program activity, and community support are evolving across the U.S. and they ranked us among the top organizations to help support all this great work.

08/11/2026

Less than 50 years ago today, Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act that was designed to finally outlaw the bias and harsh laws that prevented Native people from practicing their religion and spirituality openly and publicly. Heinous atrocities were committed by the federal government like Wounded Knee to prevent and punish those practicing Indigenous religions. It was on this day that Congress finally took action to ban those practices. While the law is far from perfect today, Nokomis Strategies encourages everyone to take pride in their inherent right: celebrate your beliefs and openly pass them on to the next generation.

08/09/2026

This Sunday we add our voice to the chorus of voices protecting and promoting Indigenous peoples during International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (IDWIP). We repeat: We are here.

This IDWIP day, we celebrate the theme of "Honoring Indigenous Midwives: Safeguarding Life and Well-being." We lift up not only the heritage of our team members and partners, but also the midwives of those communities that continue to possess ancestorial ways and keep our traditions alive. May our customs always be protected to be passed on to the next generation.

08/04/2026

The Rural Health Transformation Program is one of the most ambitious rural health investments in recent memory, and Nokomis Strategies is proud to partner with implementers across Indian Country to ensure their ambitions are met.

Transformation is a big word. In rural and remote communities, it is also a heavy one. The distance between a funding announcement and real change in a community is measured not just in miles but in relationships, systems, trust, and time. The organizations best positioned to do this work are the ones that already understand what implementation looks like inside a tribal health system or across a region where the nearest specialist is hours away.

Nokomis Strategies has spent years working alongside Tribal Nations, Alaska Native organizations, nonprofits, healthcare providers and public health agencies doing exactly that kind of work. We know how to build something from the ground up, and we know how to step into a program that is already moving and help it find its footing. RHTP funding is reaching organizations at very different stages of readiness, and we are built to meet each of them where they are.

If RHTP is on your radar like it is on ours, we would love to talk about what the right partnership could look like for your organization. Contact us at [email protected] or call us at (907) 300-2742.