Systems Ecologist

**Systems Ecologist**

**Junior**

**Ottawa, ON or Vancouver, BC**

**Full-Time**

**The Opportunity**

This is a full-time opportunity based in **Ottawa**or **Vancouver**. You will have access to our staff benefits, including competitive compensation, medical benefits, flexible working arrangements (hybrid workplace, short-term work abroad periods), and three weeks of paid vacation plus paid time off between Christmas and New Year’s Day. With longer tenure, staff are also eligible for short sabbaticals.

**About Us**

At ESSA, we are passionate about what we do and enjoy working with professionals who share our values and mission. ESSA’s staff are purpose-driven problem solvers, big-picture critical thinkers, and motivated by an aspiration to become trusted advisors to our clients and make a difference in the world. As part of ESSA’s team, you will be surrounded by a rich intellectual inheritance, and dedicated colleagues committed to collaboration and team-building. In pursuing our corporate mission, we are inclusive of a diversity of perspectives and ways of knowing among both our staff and our clients that may vary depending on experience, race, gender identity, age, disability status, sexual orientation, and religion amongst others.

With offices in British Columbia and Ontario, we acknowledge that our offices are on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish People (the xʷməθkʷəyəm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations) in Vancouver, and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People in Ottawa. We acknowledge that we also work in the territories of other Indigenous Nations across Canada and the world.

**Your Responsibilities**:
Your day-to-day responsibilities:

- Project support:

- Data compilation and organization (aka data wrangling)
- Statistical methods (e.g., regression, hypothesis testing, comparison among groups, study design, power analyses etc.)
- Simulation modeling and decision support tools
- Supporting the development of excellent project deliverables on-time, on-budget, and on-quality.
- Writing and coordinating technical reports which summarize project findings, including existing scientific literature, and survey results.
- Supporting the development of presentations of project research and outputs.
- Supporting the development of research and client engagement workplans to meet the tailored needs of diverse projects.
- Occasionally travelling to attend client meetings across North America. Note - this role does not involve field work.
- Business Development support:

- Contributing to business development efforts including marketing materials and proposal writing.
- Contributing to the development of training materials.
- Archiving, cataloguing, and organizing research for future use by the team.

**Requirements**:

- You possess a **Master’s degree** with a strong preference for degrees in the natural and applied sciences (e.g., Ecology, Biology, Resource Management, Data Science, or Geography) with no additional research experience required.
- Experience working on issues in natural resource management, for instance: (1) aquatic sciences (e.g., water management, fisheries management, ecosystem restoration planning); (2) climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessments; (3) data sciences/statistics (e.g., monitoring design, simulation modelling); and/or (4) environmental cumulative effects/impact assessments.
- Spatial analysis, GIS
- Data manipulation (wrangling) and data visualization (graphing); e.g., using R and/or Excel
- Quantitative analysis to support project teams; e.g., R, coding
- Information synthesis and literature review
- Technical and plain-language report writing, with exceptional English writing and verbal communication skills, and document mastery for complex 300+ pg. multi-authored reports
- Resourceful, versatile, and collaborative team player with the ability to work calmly and effectively in an office environment with in-person and remote teams with modest instruction/supervision.
- Proactive and results oriented, with strong problem-solving and excellent time-management skills; adept at multi-tasking/prioritizing to meet deadlines in a dynamic environment which sometimes requires intensive short-term effort.
- You have **proficiency with fundamental software skills and tools used in professional settings**, including document mastery for developing complex multi-authored reports and other work products using the Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,) and Google Suite (Calendar, Drive, Docs, etc.)
- **Your**_**differentiating**_ **skills may include one or more of the following**:_
- Experience working with big data sets including climate data
- Co-facilitating in-person and virtual meetings using a variety of tools to support technical facilitation (survey implementation - Survey Monkey; meeting technology - MS Teams, Zoom; workshop participation tools - Mural, mentimeter).
- Science communic