Indigenous Relations Specialist
3 months ago
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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.
Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.
We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.
**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:
- As a professional member of the Indigenous Relations Team, provides specialized expertise in
building and maintaining ongoing First Nations (FN)relationships, facilitating the resolution of
conflict and ensuring duty to consult, and related documentation and regulatory processes are
executed
- Leads BC Hydro’s consultation with First Nations on regulatory and provincial authorizations
including responding to information requests, and 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;
and negotiation, and building and maintaining trust within highly diverse communities in the
Province;
- Conducts current and future needs assessment for Indigenous Relations and prioritizes needs
- 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.
**Qualifications**:
***
- University Undergraduate degree in Public Administration, economic development, law,
anthropology or related discipline or equivalent. Or a Technical diploma, Certificate or Trade
- Certification and a minimum of 10 years of progressively more complex responsible and
- complicated responsibilities- A minimum of 7 years of experience in a business environment (public or private sector
preferably resource-based organization) including experience in managing multiple projects
- Proven experience working with Indigenous Peoples to advance projects and initiatives.
- A minimum of 12 months experience of having represented BC Hydro or another Proponent or
Government Agency in a moderate to senior capacity working collaboratively with the
- representatives of First Nations preferably in the South East region of the Province.**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- The headquarters for this position will either be Edmonds, Dunsmuir or Kamloops office
Assets include:
- Experience with building and maintaining a high impact, high complexity relationship with an
external party
- Experience working with Indigenous Peoples to advance projects and initiatives
requirements for capital projects
- Experience with environmental assessment, environmental risk management, and environmental
compliance
- This role will involve occasional travel to northern BC
- A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain your Driver's License: Class 5 in good
standing
education and experience may be considered
We're always looking for exceptional people to bring new ideas, fresh thinking and the motivation
to help shape the electricity system in B.C. It's an exciting time to be a part of our team as we
invest in our system and prepare to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
Our values guide our work. Want to join us?
We are safe.
We are here for our customers.
We are one team.
We include everyone.
We act with integrity and respect.
We are forward thinking.
BC Hydro is an equal opportunity employer.
minorities, women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual
orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively
engage with diverse communities.
We are also happy to provide reasonable accommodations throughout th
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