Terrestrial Effects Scientist

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks Full time

The Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has an unique opportunity for an innovative environmental professional to provide scientific expertise and leadership in the design, conduct and interpretation of vegetation and soil surveys, monitoring programs and special studies that assess and communicates the impacts of environmental contamination and/or other environmental stressors on vegetation health ( plants, trees, crops) and soil quality.

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**What can I expect to do in this role?**:

- Lead the design and conduct of complex vegetation and soil surveys, monitoring programs, and/or special studies to assess and communicate the impacts of environmental contaminants and/or other environmental stressors on vegetation health (plants, trees, and crops) and/or soil quality
- Prepare technical reports summarizing vegetation or soil surveys, monitoring programs, and/or special studies
- Review and provide feedback/recommendations on the vegetation and soil components of third party assessments/surveys, monitoring programs, special studies, and/or risk assessments
- Provide expert advice, technical and scientific information to ministry staff, senior management,the public, consultants, academia and related industry stakeholders
- Lead a team of scientific/technical peers on special projects to obtain soil and vegetation related data in support of the ministry's standard setting and guideline development programs
- Identify scientific knowledge gaps in our understanding of the effects of environmental contaminants and other environmental stressors on vegetation health and soil quality that warrant further study and suggest procedures and protocols to implement special studies

**How do I qualify?**:
**Mandatory**:

- You have a valid Ontario Driver's License (Class G) to conduct field work as required
- You have the ability to conduct field work, including field work that may involve multiple days in remote locations and/or involve difficult terrain.

**Technical Knowledge**:

- You have direct relevant experience assessing and interpreting the effects of environmental contaminants and/or other stressors on soil quality and vegetation health (i.e., plants, trees, crops)
- You know the cause-effect relationships between environmental contaminants/stressors and vegetation and soil endpoints of concern to Ontario
- You know the implications of plant air pollution sensitivities and pollution injury symptoms

**Investigative, Risk Assessment, and Legislative Knowledge**:

- You have knowledge of investigative theory, protocols and methodologies to design and conduct complex, innovative soil and vegetation surveys, monitoring programs, or special studies
- You have the ability to provide expert advice on the soil and vegetation components of Environmental Assessments, risk assessments and third party soil and vegetation surveys and/or monitoring programs
- You understand the principles, concepts, and approaches associated with risk assessment and management

**Statistical, Data Analysis, and Computer Knowledge**:

- You have experience using common computer systems and software, including word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, scientific graphing, statistical packages, and mapping programs (e.g., ArcGIS)

**Leadership, Project Management, and Analytical Skills**:

- You demonstrate highly developed leadership and project management skills to initiate, lead and/or oversee projects and special studies
- You can assess the scope of environmental emergencies or unique scientific problems and resolve them
- You can evaluate and analyse complex scientific information involving multiple, interrelated and interdependent components

**Communication, Relationship Management, and Organizational Skills**:

- You can communicate highly technical information in a clear and logical manner to non-scientific and technical audiences
- You can develop a variety of written products such as scientific reports, peer-reviewed journal articles, proposals, briefings, standard operating protocols/methods and study plans/designs
- You have highly developed stakeholder relationship and interpersonal skills to represent the ministry on inter and intra-ministry working groups and to work effectively with

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