Key Biodiversity Areas

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Wildlife Conservation Society Full time

**Position Title**: Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) Indigenous Outreach Assistant

**Position Type**: Full-time, Term

**Program**:National
- Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA)

**Position Location**:Remote in Canada

**Date Written/Revised**:Tuesday, May 21, 2024

**Reports To**:Lucy Poley, KBA Ecosystem Criteria Coordinator, and Peter Soroye, KBA Assessment and Outreach Coordinator

**Term**:12 months

**Salary**:$45,500-$50,000 annually based on experience

**Supervises (Direct supervision only)**: None

**Start date**: July 2, 2024

**Benefits**: 4 weeks’ vacation, Paid sick and Personal emergency leave, Self-care days, Health and Dental care, Life insurance, RRSP Program, DEIJA Team, Weekly Wellness sessions, Mentorship program.

**Position Contact**: Lucy Poley, KBA Ecosystem Criteria Coordinator, and Peter Soroye, KBA Assessment and Outreach Coordinator

**Application Closing date**:June 5, 2024 at 6pm EST.

**Position Summary**

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada’s Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) program is seeking a **KBA Indigenous Outreach Assistant** with excellent interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills and a strong interest in supporting Indigenous-led conservation. The KBA program is a national effort to identify places in Canada that contribute significantly to the persistence of biodiversity, overseen by a coalition of partners including NGOs, academic scientists, governments, and Indigenous communities. KBAs represent sites that are globally and nationally important to the persistence of plants, animals, and ecosystems. These include places with globally and nationally recognized rare or threatened animal and plant species and ecosystems, places where animals gather in larger numbers for breeding, migration or other reasons, places where species and ecosystems exist that cannot be found anywhere else in the world, and places containing intact, undisturbed landscapes. WCS Canada and the KBA initiative are committed to supporting Indigenous values and stewardship efforts, respecting Indigenous knowledge, and enabling informed participation of Indigenous Peoples throughout the KBA identification initiative.

The first aspect will center around KBA Criterion C, which has the goal of identifying the world’s remaining areas of outstanding ecological integrity in regions where Indigenous communities hold the most knowledge about these healthy ecosystems and are best placed to understand how to measure ecological and cultural integrity. The goal of this aspect of the KBA Canada Initiative is to support Indigenous youth to tell their own stories about the land and their culture by providing equipment, training, and financial support for video production. The outreach assistant will help support this project during its pilot phase in 2024 and assist with developing it further for additional communities in the future.

**Position Objectives**

This position will support the WCS Canada KBA program through the following primary objectives, splitting their time between two main projects:

- Support the Ecosystem Criteria Coordinator in developing a project that provides young Indigenous participants with a grant and equipment to create short documentary-style videos around the concepts of ecological and cultural integrity.
- Support the Assessment and Outreach Coordinator with outreach to First Nation, Métis, and Inuit groups and communities around the identification of KBAs and supporting engagement and collaborations that may arise from outreach.
- Gain experience and develop skills that will support the development of a long-term career in conservation.

**Principal Responsibilities**

Support the Ecosystem Criteria Coordinator in developing an Indigenous youth-led, video-based storytelling project:

- Help with the video project pilot running in summer-fall 2024 by recording training sessions, occasionally assisting with participant support, and transcribing shared knowledge when appropriate.
- Research and coordinate with communities in highly intact regions of Canada to assess their interest in collaboration on, and potential participants for, future iterations of the video project.
- Refine and share training materials and other resources for future project participants based on the initial pilot project work and results.
- Research funding options to expand the project into additional communities.
- Help the Ecosystem Criteria Coordinator develop documents and protocols to support project expansion into additional communities.

Support the Assessment and Outreach Coordinator:

- Liaise with KBA Secretariat members and regional coordinators around Indigenous outreach at sites.
- Organize and keep track of outreach and communications with Indigenous communities and groups around KBAs, as well as information and outreach needs.
- Liaise with Indigenous communities and groups around engagement and collaboration with KBA Canada program.- Ensure Nations are aware of KBA program and

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