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Indigenous Relations Specialist - Southwest
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 16
Employment type: Temporary Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 109,700.00 - 138,700.00
What you'll do
- As a professional member of the Indigenous Relations Team, provides specialized expertise in building and maintaining
ongoing First Nations relationships and advancing reconciliation, facilitating the resolution of conflict, and ensuring duty to
consult and related regulatory processes are executed.
- Leads relationships with First Nations in Southwest BC to foster collaboration and advance reconciliation.
- Leads BC Hydro’s consultation with First Nations on capital projects related regulatory and provincial authorizations
ensuring adequacy of consultation has been met.
- Supports compliance through meeting First Nation conditions and commitments under provincial and federal
authorizations.
- Leads the First Nations component on capital projects where relationship, legal, environmental, reputation and other key
risks are moderate to high.
- Develops consultation plans during project scoping including identifying and consulting with Project Managers to execute
the First Nation component.
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of relationship management, applying persuasive influence and negotiation, and
building and maintaining trust within highly diverse communities in the Province.
- Participates in the research, assessment and development of business strategies pertaining to Indigenous Relations.
Identifies and analyzes issues and develops options for consideration. May assume the lead role in managing key
Indigenous Relations issues and initiatives for the company.
- Evaluates source and scope of complex situations that may occur during consultation stages and identifies options and
alternatives for finding resolution while balancing cultural, territorial and other considerations.
- Provides technical leadership to Project Coordinators and other junior roles in all aspects of project planning, execution,
documentation, records management and relationship management with First Nations.
- As a technical specialist and leader in First Nation engagement, this position is viewed and accessed by a wide range of
operational areas within BC Hydro to support, intervene in and resolve actual or potential conflicts between BC Hydro
interests and First Nation communities.
What you bring
- University Undergraduate degree in First Nations Studies, Public Administration, political science, land and resource
management, law, anthropology or related discipline or equivalent.
- A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in a business environment (public or private sector, preferably resource-
