Environmental Assessment/regulatory Program Manager

**Job description**

**Position title**:Environmental Assessment (EA)/Regulatory Program Manager

**Position type**:Full-time, indeterminate

**Location**:Vancouver, BC, Victoria, BC, or Edmonton, AB preferred but not required

**Reports to**:Business Lead

**Supervised by**:Business Lead

**Salary range**:Competitive, commensurate with experience

**Application Deadline**:Position will remain open until filled

**Position start date**:ASAP

**Background**:
**Job Duties**:
The EA/Regulatory Program Manager reports to the business area lead and works to achieve the strategic goals identified by the board. Responsibilities of this role include:

- **Project and Staff Management**:_
- Strive to support a positive, dynamic, and engaged team of environmental assessment (EA) and regulatory process professionals.
- Working alongside our Firelight Project Managers on multiple projects to execute scope/budget/schedule to meet client's expectations and ensure quality standards on project deliverables.
- Taking on direct Project Management roles on some Firelight EA/regulatory projects.
- Support research and community engagement delivery activities by Firelight EA/regulatory project teams.
- Support business development activities, initiatives, and programs.
- Build strong collaborative relationships with other EA Program Firelight employees.
- Coordinate daily allocation of project work to direct reports.
- Support Junior and Intermediate staff in their development at the organisation, including performance review and management.
- Work with the senior/intermediate EA program staff and Firelight senior management to identify potential research and contribute to operational improvements.
- Identify business development opportunities including innovative research methodologies or building client relationships.
- Draft project proposals, budgets, and scopes of work.
- Facilitation project initiation and deliverable completion processes with project managers.
- Delegating duties to staff regarding:

- Travel arrangements including booking flights, accommodations, rental cars, travel insurance, making sure travel safety protocols are met, and assisting finance team with travel expense reconciliations.
- Meetings and team events: including scheduling, booking meeting venues, setting up video calls, taking notes, travel arrangements, and identifying action items.
- Coordinate budgets, work plans, and research strategies for ongoing, proposed, and approved projects.

Information management:

- Ensure that methods used to manage, store and retrieve information in the EA/regulatory team are consistently applied, accessible and effective.
- Track and document personal hours and expenses.

Relationship building:

- Assist with Firelight internal and external communications.
- Maintain and build ongoing relations with community partners.
- Support completion of deliverables for diverse clients.
- Work with staff to develop and deliver curriculum for training programs relating to EA/regulatory skills and tools for Indigenous communities.

Travel:

- Willing to commit to travel regularly up to 6 days per month, not necessarily consecutively, sometimes in remote communities.

Other:

- Provide logístical support with coordination of projects and events.
- Support administrative duties, special projects, and other tasks as may be required.

**Qualifications**:

- Prefer for MA or MSc in a relevant field with a focus on environmental assessment, or relevant work experience.
- Proven experience in team and project management.
- 5 years or more experience in Environmental Assessment and/or Project Management
- Excellent writing, communication, organizational, computer and time management skills
- Experience working with indigenous communities
- Familiarity working with Provincial, Federal, and Territorial environmental assessment/regulatory regimes

**Required Skills**:

- Project management training with a preference for associated certification.
- Experience synthesizing and analyzing data using a variety of methods.
- Ability to work within a fast-paced environment that includes diverse interests, including Indigenous communities and their members.
- Strong attention to detail and highly proficient with information management systems and protocols.
- Familiarity with OCAP
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences such as existing and potential clients, funders, directors, associates, and internal staff.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Driver’s licence required.

**Benefits**:
**Firelight offers compensation commensurate with skills and training, within industry standard ranges. We offer a progressive, flexible workplace and the following benefits**:

- Flexible four-day work week (32-hours/week)
- Both professional development and training allowance provided
- Banking of earned overtime
- Health and Wellness Program
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits
- Annual retirement saving