Caribou Range Planning Lead

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Are you a strategic thinker ready to roll up your sleeves? Looking for a place to demonstrate your strengths? Do you have the drive to carry challenging projects across the finish line? Find a career-defining role with Planning Branch, leading a project that will shape the future of this province’s environment. Alberta is committed to stabilizing, recovering and sustaining woodland caribou populations. As Caribou Range Planning Lead, you will lead the preparation of range plans for Alberta’s 15 caribou ranges that protect critical habitat by establishing management strategies to direct industrial and human development. Success is essential – the stakes for caribou, as well as public acceptance for development, are high.

Reporting to the Director, Planning System & Support, you will provide leadership and coordination in developing caribou range and action plans. Working with a cross-ministry team of professionals, you will ensure that:

• Aboriginal and stakeholder relationships are maintained through honest and honourable contact, aimed at truly understanding their perspective;

• Planning challenges are carefully explored through transparent and credible modeling and analysis

• Data, assumptions and approaches are grounded in science

• The social, environmental and economic impacts of different decisions are examined, and trade-offs understood

• Briefings and decision documents professionally present a complete, balanced assessment of benefits, risks and ramifications

• Ultimately, range plans are prepared that support caribou recovery and address federal recovery strategy requirements.

The position provides advice, coordination and consultation to interdepartmental teams and to a variety of stakeholders (conservation organizations, industry, landowners, resource users, universities, government agencies and departments, First Nations and Metis organizations and other key stakeholders) regarding the inclusion of critical habitat protection for sustaining caribou populations and outlining measures and steps to be taken to manage the interaction between human disturbance and natural disturbance in range management plans and policy. The Caribou Range Planning Lead is responsible for reporting on the effectiveness and achievement of the goals in the range plans and action plans.

Strong portfolio and project management skills are required to manage simultaneous and competing demands. An understanding of ecological and industrial landscape dynamics, sufficient to understand and inform modeling approaches, is essential. Exceptional communication skills are crucial, and experience working in contentious situations is an asset.

ABOUT YOUR COMPETENCIES:

BUILD COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS with Branch and cross Ministry staff (ie. Land Use Secretariat, Aboriginal Relations) to support our project management approach and ensure coordination and integration of engagement plans for stakeholder consultations.

SYSTEMS THINKING to anticipate new issues and challenges emerging across various plans & stakeholder groups.

DRIVE FOR RESULTS to enable you to support the development of project charters & work plans, track and report on project progress, and facilitate reviews & identify areas of improvement.

CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING abilities to determine the most appropriate manner in which to meet the demands of several simultaneous projects and timelines. The ability to exercise judgement while incorporating the skills and expertise of the branch will ensure success in this role.

ABOUT YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT:

In this role, you will primarily be working in an office setting located in Edmonton. You will have regular and on-going contact with senior staff, other divisions within the Ministry, other government staff and the stakeholder groups across the province. Some travel may be required to effectively support the priority work of the Branch.

Salary: $2,891.46 to $3,809.56 bi-weekly ($75,467 to $99,429 per annum).

Closing Date: December 10, 2015.

Job ID # 1033120.

Qualifications: The position requires a post-secondary degree in natural resource management or a related degree and 6 years’ experience in natural resource management, project management, and issues management. Previous experience in landscape planning and/or environmental management will be considered an asset. Equivalencies will be considered. Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered at a lower classification and salary.

This competition may be used to fill a number of current or future vacancies at an equivalent or lower level in various ministries throughout the Government of Alberta.

BENEFITS:

•Comprehensive and competitive benefits plan: http://www.chr.alberta.ca/Employees/DocList122.cfm

•Pension plan: http://www.pspp.ca/members/publications/PSPP_Member_Handbook.pdf

•Health Spending Account: http://www.chr.alberta.ca/Practitioners/?file=benefits/healthspendingacct/overview&cf=2

Online applications are preferred. Note: As only one file can be uploaded, please ensure your cover letter, resume and any other related documents are submitted in one file. Applicants who apply online will be able to track the status of this competition.

If you are unable to apply online, please submit your cover letter and resume, quoting the Job ID, to: Linda Yan, Environment and Parks, Human Resources, 4th Floor, Petroleum Plaza, South Tower, 9915-108 Street, Edmonton, AB, T5K 2G8. Fax: (780) 427-2513.

It is recommended that applicants who have obtained educational credentials from outside of Canada and have not had them previously assessed, obtain an evaluation of their credentials from the International Qualifications Assessment Service (IQAS) – http://eae.alberta.ca/labour-and-immigration/overview-of-immigration/international-qualifications-assessment-service.aspx. It is recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.

https://www.jobs.alberta.ca/pprofile/pp1033120.htm

If you require any further information on this job posting, please contact Linda Yan at: ESRD.HRS@gov.ab.ca. We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates’ education and experience best meets the needs of the position. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

Although this competition is closing on December 10, 2015, please continue to check jobs.alberta.ca for all career opportunities with the Government of Alberta.