Manager, River Forecasting

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Canada Government of Alberta Full time

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 57114
Ministry: Environment and Protected Areas
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: April 29, 2024
Classification: Senior Manager, Zone 1 (M42Z1)

**Salary**: $3,445.58 to $4,701.23 bi-weekly ($89,929 - $122,702/year)

**Role Responsibilities**:

- Reporting to the Director of River Engineering and Technical Services, the River Forecast Manager oversees a group of approximately 11 highly specialized technical staff responsible for delivery of the provincial river forecast program. The River Forecast Manager contributes to the safety of Albertans by ensuring accurate current and future river and river ice condition information is available. Through the direct supervision of provincial river and river ice forecasters, this position is responsible for all forecasts produced by the River Forecast Centre, which are used by various areas within government, as well as municipalities, private industry and the public. The manager builds and maintains effective relationships with emergency management groups as well as other key internal and external stakeholders such as water infrastructure operations, water monitoring, the federal government, local authorities, community groups and Indigenous communities. This position also contributes to decisions related to water supply, flood mitigation, drought management, and emergency response planning.
- **Responsibilities include**:

- Directing the creation and delivery of timely water forecasts for open river flood, low flow, and natural flow conditions, as well as for river ice situations. This includes issuing flood advisories, watches and warnings, as appropriate.
- Supporting the Alberta Emergency Management Agency's Provincial Emergency Coordination Centre (PECC) and the Ministry's Department Coordination Centre (DCC), including the assessment and interpretation of flood information before and during a flood.
- Overseeing the production of seasonal water supply outlook forecasts, for water/drought management, irrigation, and water infrastructure operations purposes.
- Ensuring quality assurance and control of near real-time precipitation, water level and flow data, to support River Forecast Centre operations as well as ensuring public availability of this data through various websites and apps.
- Overseeing the continued support and development of the Alberta River Forecast System-Flood Early Warning System (ARFS-FEWS), WISKI, the emergency manager portal, and advisory creator.
- Supporting the provincial administration of the Canada-Alberta Agreement on Hydrometric Monitoring.
- Enhancing strategic relationships and partnerships, both internal and external to government.

**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.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Agility**:Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.

**Build Collaborative Environments**: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

**Develop Networks**:Proactively building networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.

**Systems Thinking**:The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems Thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.

**Qualifications**:
**Required**:

- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Science with a focus on water resources engineering/science or a related field.
- Minimum 6 years of related experience (eg. river forecasting, hydrology, hydraulics, water science, civil engineering, emergency management, risk management, flood/drought management).
- Eligible for membership with the APEGA.

**Equivalences may be considered**: Additional related education considered in lieu of experience on a one-for-one basis.
- **Assets**
- Experience in emergency management and the ability to make time-sensitive decisions based on complex information in high pressure situations.
- Strong knowledge of other team roles and responsibilities within the department and externally, and general knowledge of provincial flood and drought mitigation strategies.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills are required to communicate with internal partners as well as technical audiences and the public. The ability to translate technical informa

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