Junior Lands Coordinator

**Junior Lands Department Coordinator—Full-time/Permanent —we offer flexible and remote working opportunities, and meaningful work.**

We are a growing environmental consulting firm based in Guelph, Ontario. We offer our employees flexibility, excellent learning opportunities, and the ability to work—as part of our amazing team—virtually from anywhere in Canada.

SVS staff have the autonomy and support to grow their careers in the direction they choose. We work together to help meet our collective mission: a future where everyone can share prosperity, exercise their rights, and live in balance with the lands and waters that sustain us. We are aligned and committed to doing good work in both our local and client communities, and we are known for our fun company culture and our commitment to providing excellent client service.

A few more key points about SVS:

- Our company is filled with individuals who like taking initiative and thinking outside of the box.
- We believe in creating shared value in every project we work on: we assist Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities and private sector companies in coming together to create shared value for all parties involved.
- We are a Certified B Corp—we believe business should be about making a difference and doing good for both people and places.

**The position**:We’re looking for a Junior Lands Department Coordinator to fill a full-time permanent position.
- We have an incredibly unique company culture that allows us to shine positive lights on our failures and work in an environment where we can learn and grow together, all while doing meaningful work
- We offer flexible working arrangements
- Base pay
- Variable pay
- Cell phone allowance
- Group health benefits and employee assistance program (health, dental, vision)
- Retirement savings plan
- Professional designation reimbursement
- Professional development (formal and informal)
- Paid time off (freedom time, sick time, cultural days, bereavement, family care)
- Work travel meal allowance
- Winter tire rebate
- Flexible working options

**Requirements**:

- At least two years of experience in a lands position as a planner, lands clerk, or lands coordinator, preferably with an Indigenous community
- Bachelor’s degree in planning, geography, environmental studies, or a similar field. Alternatively, an equivalent combination of work experience and learning in an Indigenous community
- Knowledge of the principles and practices of land planning and environmental management
- Skills and experience working in cross-cultural settings, preferably with First Nation, Métis, and/or Inuit communities
- Knowledge and understanding of the duty to consult
- Ability and experience in coordinating planning processes, including community engagement
- Experience and proficiency in writing and working with land and community plans, including culturally relevant policy development
- Excellent knowledge of land management issues and legislation affecting Indigenous Nations both locally and nationally
- Strong technical writing and analytical skills, including experience with data management and analysis, preparing technical reports, and communicating complex issues in plain language (written, verbal, presentations) for a variety of audiences
- The ability to work both independently and as part of a team

**Responsibilities**:

- Referrals intake, prioritizing, and tracking on behalf of our client’s Lands Department
- Lands inbox management
- Engagement of contract technical staff as needed to support referral responses
- Drafting of referral response content, including the coordination of draft content submissions by other technical staff
- Administrative support, logistics, and meeting documentation for lands-related internal and external meetings
- Supporting and documenting lands-related community or council engagement
- Monthly reports to client council: drafting content, and collecting and coordinating information and internal approvals
- Other support for the lands director or lands manager, as needed and within the scope of lands office duties
- Coordinating and facilitating community engagement, consultation, and workshops
- Writing and working with land and community plans
- Coordinating projects specific to client community and land management needs
- Analyzing and communicating the impacts on Indigenous communities from various federal, provincial, and municipal laws, legislation, and decisions
- Deliver training to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit organizations and individuals

**Asset Qualifications**: Experience with planning and implementing communication and consultation programs and activities, Traditional Knowledge, land use and occupancy, GIS, community economic development, conflict resolution, capacity building/training, multimedia story-telling.

**Let us know if you speak**:French, Cree, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Innu, or other languages that might be useful for this position