Indigenous Liaison Officer

Important messages

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Assessment accommodation

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: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-servicecommission/jobs/services/publicservice-jobs/canadian-armed-forcesmembers-veterans.html

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

Duties

We are seeking a dynamic, creative and resourceful team player to join Natural Resource Canada’s Canadian Forest Service as an Indigenous Liaison Officer. This position will support the Northern Forest Mapping program in delivering enhanced wildfire fuels maps for northern Canada.

Key duties of this position include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Build and maintain relationships and partnerships with Indigenous Peoples and northern communities.
- Coordinate and carry out knowledge exchange activities for Indigenous Peoples and northern communities.
- Provide advice and expertise to internal and external colleagues on the ethical engagement of Indigenous peoples and northern communities.
- Coordinate and assist in the collection of forest mensuration data from northern forests. This may include training northern community members in appropriate forest data collection protocols and best practices.
- Prepare documentation, reports and presentations, as needed.

Work environment

At Natural Resources Canada, a Federal government job means developing leadership skills, fostering teamwork, and supporting creativity and innovation. We know it takes people from diverse pools of talent to make this happen. This is why we are looking for people like you. As an employee of Natural Resources Canada, you will be able to enjoy diverse employment opportunities, a range of career development programs, and a learning culture that supports your learning and development on an ongoing basis. We support balancing your work and private life by offering flexible work arrangements.

This position is located in Edmonton. However, since the majority of job duties will be focused on northern projects, we encourage candidates from across the country, particularly those from northern regions, to apply.

Intent of the process

The intent of this selection process is to staff one term position of 3 years.

A pool of (fully or partially qualified) candidates may be established through this process to staff with identical or similar positions within Natural Resources Canada with various tenures, 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, etc.), various security requirements (Reliability status or Secret clearance), 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 a degree in forestry or wood science from a recognized post-secondary institution;
or
• Graduation with a degree in a related science from a recognized post-secondary institution combined with acceptable experience.

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
· Using knowledge transfer techniques and mechanisms
· Working and liaising with Indigenous communities

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

ASSET EXPERIENCE:
· Coordinating projects
· Preparing and delivering presentations
· Working with GIS
· Evaluating proposals and administering Grants and Contributions and/or service contracts

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

English essential

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
· Knowledge of climate change impacts on forest ecosystems and adaptation in the forest sector and/or forest-based communities.
· Of operational forestry or forestry research principles and techniques

ABILITIES & COMPETENCIES:
· Demonstrating integrity and respect
· Thinking things through
· Working effectively with others
· Showing initiative and being action-oriented
· To effectively communicate orally and in writing
· To organize work and establish priorities to meet deadlines

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

ASSET KNOWLEDGE :
· Of the objectives and forest policy of the organization
· Of forest inventory and analysis
· Of forest disturbance monitoring

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

Natural Resources Canada is committed to establishing and maintaining a representative workforce. This organizational need may be identified as part of the appointment decision. In such cases, qualified candidates who self-declare as members of a visible minority group, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities or women (in non-traditional occupations) could be considered in priority.

Operational requirements:
· Willing and able to travel within Canada (and abroad), including travel by car, rail and air
· Willing and able to work overtime as required and to adopt flexible work hours as per operational requirements

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other Conditions of Employment:
· Valid driver’s licence

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

The hiring organization will accept applications on-line only. All job applications must therefore be submitted through the Government of Canada jobs website. To submit an application on-line, please select the button “Apply Online” below. Persons with disabilities preventing them from applying on-line are asked to contact the person named below.

It is our intention to communicate with candidates via email for assessment purposes. This will include communication of 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.

Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca.

Candidates from outside the public service may be required to pay for travel and relocation costs associated with this selection process.

Reference checks may be sought.

An interview may be administered.

A test may be administered.

You must provide proof of your education credentials.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 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.