Rangeland Program Specialist

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66170
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Red Deer (other existing rangeland offices, in the province of Alberta, may be considered).
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Temporary (12 months)
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: February 7, 2025
Classification: Agrologist Level 2

**Salary**: $2,672.68 to $3,665.11 ($69,756 - $95,659/year)

We are responsible for growing our manufactured wood products and forestry sector, preserving and managing our public lands and provincial parks.

**Role Responsibilities**:
The Rangeland Stewardship and Land Use Policy Section is currently seeking a Provincial Rangeland Specialist. As a prospective incumbent for this role, you will provide technical expertise, provincial consistency and program specialization for the Rangeland Programs and Issues Unit.

Reporting to the Rangeland Program and Issues Lead, the Rangeland Programs Specialist provides technical expertise and program specialization for recreational access on grazing leases, feral horse science and management, support to provincial grazing reserves, terrestrial invasive species and a strong role in ensuring provincial consistency for the implementation of regulatory assurance.

As part of the team, you will have strong creative problem solving to ensure that challenging multi-stakeholder issues can be resolved. You will show drive for results by proactively delivering outcomes and results in an effective and timely manner to meet public and stakeholder expectations. You will take a strategic systems thinking approach to determine how best to stage solutions to complex issues. As the incumbent, you must effectively assess shifting program needs and match with work unit capabilities and priorities. Must be able to demonstrate effective solutions to complex resource management issues at regional and provincial scales. Strong communication skills and effective relationship building abilities are essential.

**Other requirements include**:

- Ability to adapt to a continually evolving environment centered on a team-focused, fast-paced workplace environment.
- Proven ability to lead teams through change and implement new ways of working.
- Experience working within or alongside teams, other public sector organizations and external stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to negotiate, influence, and liaise effectively with colleagues, members of the public and external agencies.
- Expert knowledge of the relevant legislation, processes and policies. Advanced analytical and problem solving skills, with an ability to interpret emerging issues.Please

**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:
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.

Drive for Results: Know what outcomes are important and maximize resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.

Creative Problem Solving: Assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes as well as solutions.

Build Collaborative Environments: Lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively as well as productively to achieve outcomes.

Develop Networks: Incorporate the needs of the broader group to ensure overall client satisfaction.

**Qualifications**:
Required:

- University graduation in Range Management, Agriculture, Environmental Sciences, or a related degree, with appropriate specialization.
- 3 years related experience.
- Eligible for membership with the AIA with the ability to work in the rangeland and pasture management practice area.

Equivalency: Related Master’s degree considered in lieu of part of the three years of related experience on a one-for-one basis

Assets:

- Previous leadership, supervisory, and project management experience.
- Change Management.
- Experience with rangeland ecology, landscape processes and spatial data management.
- Experience and understanding of livestock grazing industry specifically rangeland program development and the integration with policy.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to

**Notes**:
This position is a 1-year temporary position.

The position works Monday to Fri