Indigenous Relations Specialist

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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**:

- This is a 12-month temporary rotation to work within the Business Operations and Negotiations
- team for Indigenous Relations.- As a professional member of Indigenous Relations and reporting to a Team Lead (P4) or

Manager, the Indigenous Relations Specialist acts as a Program Manager for multiple Indigenous
- Employment Programs with low to medium risk/impact/complexity throughout the Province.- Facilitates and evaluates the Indigenous employment and training programs aiming to support

our corporate goal to increase the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the workforce at BC
- Hydro.- Designs, creates, and delivers Indigenous employment and capacity building programs by

collaborating with Indigenous Relations, business/project teams across the organization, and
- other relevant internal and external stakeholders to determine training requirements, objectives,
- assessments, and evaluation.- Develops project plans for various initiatives, including scope, budget, scheduling and project

team responsibilities in order to accomplish project objectives. Provides regular progress updates
- to the team and management.- Analyzes the key outcomes and stakeholder impact of the employment and training team’s

initiatives. Develops reports by using databases, information systems, surveys, and tools to track
- stakeholder impacts to support management’s timely decision making. Responsibilities and core
- tasks associated with this position include:
- Project Management - able to translate the Indigenous Employment and Training strategy into

workable action plans with clear targets and measurements that demonstrate success.- Program and Process Design - able to work with stakeholders to design new or refresh existing
- programs and processes to support Indigenous employment and capacity building.- Supports BC Hydro to advance relationships with Indigenous Nations, including fulfilling

agreement obligations.- Excellent communicator and facilitator - articulate, clear, confident and collaborative.
- Leads change management within Indigenous Relations and other BC Hydro departments to

ensure employment and capacity building initiatives are supported across the organization.- Highly collaborative - engage with cross functional teams and stakeholders in the development

and execution of initiatives.- Establishes strong relationships and communication channels with internal and external clients/

stakeholders to ensure success of program delivery.- Coaches and manages junior team members’ work as required.
- Providing leadership and work guidance that fosters a collaborative, productive, and healthy

work and team environment.- Is a member of the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) working group, co-leading the

drafting of a chapter for the PAR submission, will participate in PAR adjudication process.- Manages Indigenous employment program metrics and reporting.
- Researches best practices in Indigenous employment and capacity building initiatives.
- Speaks internally and externally about employment as a key pillar of Reconciliation at BC Hydro.
- Develops tools and resources for people leaders and employees on Indigenous inclusion and

reconciliation.- Demonstrates continuous improvement approach to identify opportunities for Indigenous

employment and capacity building to contribute to advancing Reconciliation**Qualifications**:
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- University degree in Public Policy, Law, Government, Public or Business Administration,

Engineering, or similar. Equivalent education and working experience may also be considered.- A minimum of seven years relevant experience and demonstrated ability to support the

implementation of complex strategic business solutions.people in BC and knowledge of First Nations issues as they relate to the energy industry is highly
- desirable.business planning and reporting.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- A condition of employment for this job is that you maintain the following requirements in good

standing:
Driver's License Type = Class 5
- This is a temporary opportunity for approximately 1 year.
- Experience third party validation processes (e.g. PAR