Landscape Ecologist

Job Information
Job Title: Landscape Ecologist (2 positions) 
Job Requisition ID: 54444
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Hinton, Whitecourt, Grande Cache or Grande Prairie
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: May 8, 2024
Classification:Natural Resources 8
Salary: $2,896.94 to $3,741.60 Biweekly ($75,610 to $97,655 Yearly)

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Forestry and Parks - Responsible for growing our manufactured wood products and forestry sector, preserving, and managing our public lands and protected areas. Protected areas are essential to the quality of life that Albertans enjoy. They conserve our natural landscapes and wildlife habitat and offer a broad range of nature-based outdoor recreational opportunities. Alberta’s protected areas inspire people to discover, value, protect, and enjoy the natural world and the benefits it provides for current and future generations.

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Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Senior Landscape Ecologist in Lands Delivery and Coordination North, the Landscape Ecologist assists in developing and implementing the delivery of various monitoring, evaluation, and planning projects across Crown Lands, to ensure and improve the long-term sustainability of Alberta’s natural resources

This position tackles a range of activities from landscape scale conservation challenges to smaller scale site-specific issues. The diversity of work could include multi-year landscape level research projects involving many stakeholders; determination of suitable mitigations for impacts to biodiversity (e.g., creating a study design for a watercourse crossing remediation or trail upgrade); creating or implementing biodiversity objectives and strategies; implementing cumulative effects modeling/monitoring; implementing species recovery plans or initiatives on a complex and multi-user landscape.

Key responsibilities include:

Ensuring the department is meeting conservation and ecological management objectives (e.g., biodiversity conservation, connectivity, rehabilitation) as required to maintain or improve ecosystem integrity. Analyzing and implementing actions/recommendations to address ecological and land management problems, issues, or concerns. Coordinating and delivering landscape management plans, and/or other local planning initiatives, which will involve the broad involvement of internal and external stakeholders, municipalities, and Indigenous and Metis Peoples. Managing program activities by identifying and purchasing equipment and supplies and managing contracts and supervising volunteers in the collection of natural resource inventory data and on management projects. Developing strategic and operational working relationships with regional personnel, other departments, municipalities, public and industry stakeholder groups, and academic and research institutes to create an extensive network of expertise, background, and collaborative partners.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

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