Context

• Abundant Intelligences (Montréal headquarters, Concordia / AbTeC, Indigenous Futures Research Centre) published a Network Project Manager / Gestionnaire de projets réseau posting on 2026-08-16. The inquiry that read it is a Perplexity export dated 2026-08-24, kept in this repo at prototypes/artefacts/ep347-job-abundance-intelligence-network-multisite-pm-260824-47f61549-d52f-4bb5-af3a-de93ca6c72e9/.
• "Network" means the distributed research network, not IT infrastructure. The role coordinates three cross-network research initiatives with researchers, community partners, Indigenous Knowledge holders, Indigenous-led Research Pods, project leads, and the Research Leadership Group, across institutions, cultures, regions, and time zones.
• Job-board data, secondary sources: CAD 38.03 to 42.43 per hour, full time, Monday to Friday. One listing gives a contract from about 2026-10-05 to 2027-10-08, renewable subject to research funding. The primary posting page does not show the full contract information.
• Application: CV and cover letter to abtec-lab-manager@concordia.ca. The letter states why the person applies, what attracts them to the position, and how they learned about it. Interviews are in person or by Zoom. No supervisor is named in the posting.
• The inquiry reads the work as structured relational coordination: prepare a session, facilitate it, capture decisions and open questions, convert them into tasks and documents, track progress asynchronously, return with a clearer shared map.
• The inquiry's positioning advice: the two years of distributed-agent and medicine-wheel software count as evidence of systems thinking, coordination design, and knowledge provenance, and are presented as relational, community-informed software and knowledge-architecture work, not under internal names.
• Three things are unknown: the direct supervisor, the proportion of meeting and administrative work, and whether the role carries authority to improve digital workflows or develop tools.

Desired State

• William holds a decision on applying, made on answers to the three unknowns rather than on the posting alone.
• A written positioning of the medicine-wheel and distributed-agent work exists in the register the inquiry proposes, reusable in a cover letter and in conversation.
• If the decision is to apply: a CV and a cover letter answering the posting's three asks are sent before the listed contract start of 2026-10-05, and the exchange is recorded in episode 347.
• If the decision is not to apply: the reason is recorded in episode 347, so the next posting from this network is read against it.

Action Steps

• Confirm the contract period and the supervisor from the primary posting or from indigenous-ai.net. The dates above come from job boards.
• Send the exploratory message drafted in the artefact (section "A discreet but open positioning") to abtec-lab-manager@concordia.ca, asking about the balance between administration, facilitation, network development, and digital coordination practice.
• Write the positioning paragraph as its own document in the artefact folder and sync it into episode 347 with inquiry-weave sync.
• Decide apply or do not apply. Record the decision and its evidence in episode 347: attention.json while the decision is pending, status.md once it is taken.
• If applying: draft the CV and cover letter in the artefact folder, sync, and send.

Structural Tension

Two years of distributed-agent software exist as a private laboratory. This role would put that thinking in service of a living research network, but only if the position lets its holder improve the network's methods and tools rather than keep an existing structure running. The work here resolves that tension by getting the answer before the application is written.

Related

• Episode: miadi-chronicle:347, vessel /srv/miadi/episodes/miadi-chronicle/2026-09-04-episode-347-a-threshold-role-in-a-research-network
• Artefact: prototypes/artefacts/ep347-job-abundance-intelligence-network-multisite-pm-260824-47f61549-d52f-4bb5-af3a-de93ca6c72e9/
• Posting: https://reseaumtlnetwork.com/en/community_announcements/abundant-intelligences-is-hiring-come-work-with-us/
• Abundant Intelligences jobs page: https://www.indigenous-ai.net/abundant-jobs/
• Prior inquiry naming this network's research programme: miadisabelle/Etuaptmumk-RSM#149