Recreation Infrastructure Planner

**Job Information**:
Job Requisition ID: 37633

Ministry: Forestry, Parks and Tourism

Location: Lac La Biche

Full or Part-Time: Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Scope: Open Competition

Closing Date: February 14, 2023

Classification: Subsidiary 02B 3625 Program Services 3 Market Adjustment

**About Us**:
The Recreation, Ecology and Lands Program of Lands Coordination and Delivery North is segmented into two Districts, Northwest and Northeast. The Northeast District includes the communities of Cold Lake, Fort McMurray, Lac La Biche, Athabasca, Slave Lake, Whitecourt, Swan Hills.

**Role**:
Do you enjoy working with people and enjoy outdoor recreation in some of the most beautiful settings Alberta has to offer? Then please consider this opportunity with Forestry, Parks and Tourism

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual that has a passion for the outdoors to fill a Recreation Infrastructure Planner position in the east district of the North Region. Reporting to senior Recreation Management staff, this position supports recreation infrastructure initiatives on Crown Land for the purposes of increasing outdoor-recreation and nature-based tourism opportunities on a multiple use landscape.

In your role, you will develop recreation capital infrastructure plans and project proposals of varying complexity for trails, staging areas, campgrounds, and other facilities and specialized recreation amenities on a working landscape.

Your responsibilities would include:

- Creating a collaborative planning environment by providing effective communication and working closely with other program areas including lands approvals, ecology, rangeland management, fisheries and wildlife management, forestry, enforcement officers, infrastructure, and public engagement.
- Providing advanced ability to build consensus, mediate disputes, and resolve conflicting interest represented by internal and external stakeholders.
- Considering strategic connections, opportunities, and alignment of development projects to achieving the goals of the Crown Land Vision and associated guiding strategy and policy such as regional and sub-regional plans.
- Identifying, prioritizing, and providing recommendations to address a broad scope of environmental, social, and economic needs and issues/benefits and gaps within capital and recreation development planning including for outdoor recreation, conservation, operations, historic resources, adjacent land uses, dispositions, user experience, inclusion, and nature-based tourism.
- Ensuring that principles of visitor experience, inclusion, sustainability, environmental leadership, and operational efficiencies are considered in project planning.
- Designing and implementing public participation and consultation strategies to provide First Nations, stakeholders, partner organizations, municipal and county governments, local committees, industry, recreation groups, the public, as well as department and interdepartmental staff opportunity for meaningful input into capital and recreation development planning.
- Maximizing the value of input collected, enhance public understanding of capital and recreation development planning in the minsitry, and enable efficient synthesis and implementation of results.
- Organizing, hosting, and facilitating public participation events such as open houses and stakeholder workshops for recreation development projects.
- Meeting with individual stakeholders or groups, including First Nations, to explain and gather feedback on planning processes, products, and proposed projects.
- Preparing communication materials to facilitate the dissemination and collection of information to and from the public and stakeholders such as public display materials, presentations, draft plans, letters, and summaries.
- Researching new and innovative means for the planning and consultation of projects.

Please note: The position is in Lac La Biche, but other locations may be considered which are within the Northeast District and reasonably close to Lac La Biche.

**Qualifications**:
**Requirements**:

- University Degree in natural resources, outdoor recreation, land management a related field.
- Two (2) years of progressively responsible, related experience, such as capital planning or outdoor recreation planning

Equivalencies will be considered on the basis of:

- 1 year of experience for 1 year of education
- 1 year of education for 1 year of education

For example: a 2 year technical diploma in a related field supplemented with 4 years of education

**Other Requirements**:

- Valid Class 5 Driver’s License or equivalent
- First Aid certification (CPR Level C)

Assets to the role include:

- Experience in resource management, nature-based tourism, partnership coordination, contract management, and project coordination
- Knowledge of Alberta crown land management, natural resource management, and relevant legislati