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As part of your duties, you will manage a diverse team of technical specialists and conservation professionals working to achieve Parks Canada's key priorities. The Resource Conservation Manager is responsible for a team of around ten people.
You will lead by example and contribute to building and maintaining a positive, inclusive, healthy, respectful and productive work culture. This position requires solid experience in the conservation field, as well as in financial and human resources management, and good technical expertise, both in analysis and in verbalization for different audiences.
For the Gaspésie Field Unit, you will manage programs such as ecological integrity monitoring, species at risk monitoring, ecological restoration, invasive species monitoring, environmental impact assessment, cultural resources, visitor safety, forest fire management, wildlife management, environmental emergencies, and geomatics.
The position also requires exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate. In addition to managing the human resources of your teams, you will be required to interact regularly with other Parks Canada employees, senior managers, aboriginal groups, contractors, consultants, stakeholders, and external groups.
Parks Canada is the federal agency responsible for protecting and presenting Canada's outstanding natural and cultural resources through a system of national parks, national marine conservation areas and national historic sites in all regions of the country.
Want to get away from it all? To disconnect? Have fun in the midst of nature? Located on the tip of the Gaspé Peninsula, Parc Forillon is a mountainous peninsula bordered by the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Gaspé Bay. Its boreal forest is home to a wide variety of easily observable wildlife. Its vertiginous cliffs are home to thousands of seabirds and its shores to colonies of seals. The landscapes are grandiose, and their rocks contain part of the planet's fascinating history. For thousands of years, men and women have populated the Forillon Peninsula: Micmacs, fishermen, cod traders, whalers, lighthouse keepers and more.
Forillon Park tells their fascinating story. Forillon, YOUR end of the world!
Your work will also occasionally take you to the two national historic sites managed by the Gaspésie Field Unit: The Pointe-au-Père Lighthouse National Historic Site on the St. Lawrence River in Rimouski, and the Battle of the Ristigouche National Historic Site on the Ristigouche River in Pointe-à-la-Croix.
This process is to staff a vacancy and may be used to create a list of qualified candidates to staff similar positions with various tenures, security levels or linguistic profiles OR requirements in same or other parts of the country.
Positions to be filled: 1
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EDUCATION :
A master’s degree from a recognized university with specialization in natural resource conservation management, ecosystem management, biology or a bachelor’s degree from a recognized university in the same fields and extensive experience in conservation project management. Extensive means a depth and breadth of experience normally acquired over 5 years.
EXPERIENCE :
• Significant* experience in staff supervision and budget management
• Experience working with partners and stakeholders
• Significant* experience in project/program management related to resource conservation
*Significant experience is defined as 4 years' experience within the last 8 years.
ASSET :
• Experience in emergency management (visitor safety, forest fires, environmental emergencies, wildlife management)
• Experience in working with aboriginal communities
Bilingual - Imperative (BBB/BBB)
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KNOWLEDGE :
• Knowledge of key issues for national parks in natural and cultural resource conservation and emergency management (visitor safety, forest fires, environmental emergencies, human-wildlife interactions)
ABILITIES :
• Ability to establish and maintain relationships with colleagues, partners, stakeholders, other organizations, Aboriginal groups and/or communities
• Ability to manage resources (time, human and material) to achieve planned goals.
• Ability to establish and manage a conservation-oriented program
• Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing
PERSONAL SUITABILITIES :
• Good judgment
• Makes things happen
• Take responsibility
• Demonstrates integrity
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS :
• Agree to wear Parks Canada uniform and personal protective equipment
• Willingness to work or travel in a variety of terrains, weather conditions, in isolated areas of the park and by various modes of transportation
• Willingness to work irregular hours, overtime, weekends and/or provincial/territorial holidays when required
Reliability Status security clearance
• Valid driver's license
• A pre-employment medical examination may be required
• Hold or be able to obtain a basic remote first aid certificate relevant to the maritime work environment
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.
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In the application, you must provide your curriculum vitae. In the pre-screening questions, for each Essential and Asset education and experience qualification indicate Yes if you have/meet it. Then below each experience qualification for which you have indicated Yes, you must provide clear and concrete EXAMPLES and DETAILS of how you meet them. For the experience qualifications, be sure to include WHEN, WHERE and HOW you obtained this experience. It is recommended that you describe the examples in specific terms, providing sufficient details so that the Assessment Board can clearly understand the circumstances. Describe the situation/task, the action you took, what you accomplished and/or what you learned. DO NOT SIMPLY INDICATE IN YOUR RESPONSE "PLEASE REFER TO CV/RÉSUMÉ". Lack of EXAMPLES and DETAILS may result in your application being rejected as the Assessment Board will have insufficient information to determine whether or not you meet the qualifications.
The Parks Canada Agency is established as a separate employer in the Federal Public Service under the Financial Administration Act. Persons appointed to the Agency continue to be part of the Public Service. The Parks Canada Agency operates under its own human resources framework outside of the Public Service Employment Act and in line with values of fairness, competence and respect, and its operating principles.
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Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice.
Travel cost for individuals who are not Federal Public Servants will not be covered.
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.