Indigenous Relations Specialist

5 days ago

Burnaby, Canada BC Hydro Full time

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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 relationships and advancing reconciliation,
- facilitating the resolution of conflict, and ensuring duty to consult and related regulatory processes
- are executed.- Leads relationships with First Nations in Southwest BC to foster collaboration and advance

reconciliation consistent with the company’s commitment to implementing the United Nations
- Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s
- Calls to Action.- Leads BC Hydro’s consultation with First Nations on capital projects and related regulatory and

provincial authorizations ensuring adequacy of consultation has been met.- Supports compliance through meeting First Nation conditions and commitments under provincial

and federal authorizations, and implements and tracks commitments made to First Nations
- through agreements.- 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.- Participates in the research, assessment and development of business strategies pertaining to
- Indigenous Relations. Identifies and analyzes issues and develops options for consideration. May
- assume the lead role in managing key Indigenous Relations issues and initiatives for the
- company.- 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 First Nations Studies, Public Administration, political

science, land and resource management, law, anthropology or related discipline or equivalent.- A minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in a business environment (public or private sector,

preferably resource-based organization).- Subject matter expertise in First Nation relationship-building, consultation and engagement,

including proven experience working with Indigenous Peoples to advance projects and initiatives.
- Experience in the clean energy sector.
- Experience with environmental assessment and preparing provincial and federal regulatory**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- While this position is listed as being based at our Edmonds office in Burnaby, we may consider
- A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain the following requirements in good

standing:
Driver's License Type = Class 5

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 the selection process

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