Forest Species at Risk Ecologist (ANTICIPATORY)

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Assessment accommodation

**Eligible veterans and CAF members may apply.** The Government of Canada is committed to building a skilled workforce that is representative of Canada's diversity, which includes the recruitment of Canadian Veterans and releasing Canadian Armed Forces personnel.

We encourage applicants to identify any abilities, competencies, and/or experiences acquired through employment with the Canadian Armed Forces where applicable.

Work environment

The successful candidate will plan, develop and conduct independent and collaborative research on the ecology and management of species at risk within the context of managed, forested landscapes. The scientist will be responsible for collaborating with provincial, industrial, and federal agencies to implement a broad scale avian monitoring program using acoustic recording units, develop occupancy models with provincial forest inventory databases, and integrate habitat models into forest succession and forest management models. The incumbent will join a multidisciplinary team and develop collaborations with research staff within Atlantic Forestry Centre, other CFS research centres, and academic institutions.

Intent of the process

The intent is to staff one determinate (1) position with Natural Resources Canada. A pool of qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar SE RES positions at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)with various tenures (determinate or indeterminate), various language requirements (English Essential, French Essential, English or French Essential, or Bilingual), linguistic requirements (imperative and/or non-imperative) and profile(s) (BBB/BBB, CBC/CBC, CCC/CCC, et c.), various security requirements, various conditions of employment and for various locations.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education
Graduation with an acceptable doctoral degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in a field of the natural sciences related to the duties of the position or an acceptable master's degree coupled with acceptable research, training and experience. The degree must be from a recognized post-secondary institution and in scientific fields and specialties related to the duties of the position. The training and experience must clearly demonstrate the ability to do personal research of doctoral degree calibre.

Productivity/Recognition
Recognized achievement in the form of authorship or editorship of published reports, books, peer-reviewed journal articles and other written communications resulting from research, experimental or technical development, commensurate with years of experience.

Degree equivalency

Experience
Experience in designing and conducting large-scale field experiments, observational or manipulative, to determine species-habitat associations and/or response to landscape change.
Experience in at least one of the following areas of research: landscape ecology, occupancy modelling, spatial ecology, and/or forest management.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Experience in the use of advanced statistical packages such as R.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

English essential

Information on language requirements

Knowledge
Knowledge of forest ecology as it relates to species at risk;
Knowledge of ecological modelling to forecast changes over space and time;
Knowledge of designing, conducting and statistically analyzing field studies of species-habitat associations, and scaling findings to landscapes;
Knowledge of the effect of sustainable forest management on habitat.

Ability
Ability to develop and manage a field-oriented research program in forest ecology;
Ability to communicate effectively in writing and orally;
Ability to work effectively in a team environment;
Ability to conduct independent research;

Personal suitability
Initiative.
Creativity.
Flexibility.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Knowledge of Remsoft forest management software.
Knowledge of Arc Info GIS software or equivalent.

Valid driver’s license.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Willing and able to travel.
Willing and able to work under a variety of weather conditions and risks associated with field work and must have a valid medical certificate as required by the Treasury Board Secretariat Occupational Health Evaluation Standard Appendix A – Section XII Scientific Personnel – Field.

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

** Please include your publication list in your resume.

All job applications must be submitted through the Public Service Resourcing System. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact the name given below.

In order to manage the number of applications in this selection process, management may use top-down or random selection at various steps in the process to determine the number of candidates who will be assessed or continue in the process.

Please note that answers to the screening questions in the on-line application may be used to assess the ability to communicate effectively in writing.

In order for your application to be considered, all screening questions must be answered. You must provide concrete examples to demonstrate how you meet each qualification, including where and how you obtained the experience, as well as the period(s) in which you performed the functions of the position(s) (MM-YYYY to MM-YYYY).

Depending on the requirements of the position or positions being filled, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements, and organizational needs may be considered at any time during this process. These criteria may be a deciding factor in choosing the persons to be appointed. Therefore, it is important that you answer each of the questions related to these requirements.

For this selection process, it is our intention to communicate with candidates via email for screening and assessment purposes. This will include communication of screening results and invitations to written tests and interviews. To that end, candidates must include a valid email address in their application. It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure that this address is functional and that it accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is also the candidate’s responsibility to ensure accurate information is provided and updated as required.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.