Waterfront Stewardship Specialist Student

**Posted**:December 23, 2024

**Position Type**:Temporary, Full-Time

**Anticipated Contract Start/End Date**: May 5, 2025 to August 29, 2025

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Vacancies: 1**

**Hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

**Hourly Wage**:$21.20 to $22.20 per hour

**Saugeen Shores: Both city and town, wrapped in a village.**

Choosing to work and live in Saugeen Shores gives you an unparalleled choice of easy-going lifestyles, economic opportunities, and nature at every turn. You can truly create your own village in this growing, diverse community of neighborhoods and amenities. Replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides, and choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be. Make all these great choices without sacrificing family life, schools, and even access to the wide world. Nestled on the shores of Lake Huron with forests and farms all around, Saugeen Shores is the promise of both cities and towns, wrapped in a village.

**The Team**:
We take our team-first culture so seriously that we wrote a Team Saugeen Charter to celebrate and protect it. Our shared role is to keep Saugeen Shores safe, well-serviced, growing, and vibrant in ways that respect the public and reflect our members. We develop careers from the inside first, engage each other personally and professionally, welcome change, and embrace new ideas. We do more than live with work processes; we seek to continuously improve them. And we have each other's backs—because that is what great teams do.

**Join Us**:
**About the Role**:
We are searching for a dynamic and enthusiastic student to join our team this summer. As the **Waterfront Stewardship Specialist**, reporting to the Parks, Manager, you will provide education and awareness to promote the wise management and use of the beaches and waterfront of Saugeen Shores.

**Responsibilities**:

- Provide environmental education to residents and visitors of Saugeen Shores.
- Provide and facilitate public presentations including site meetings with waterfront property owners.
- Conduct ecological inventories and active management (i.e. invasive Phragmites).
- Prepare educational materials to increase understanding and awareness of waterfront ecology and maintenance.
- Assist in waterfront and beach maintenance.

**Education/Specialized Training/Skills**:

- Valid G2 or G License.
- Must be enrolled and a minimum of two (2) years post-secondary education in natural sciences, environmental studies, or a related discipline.
- Experience with event planning and communications is considered an asset.

**Skills and competencies you bring to the role**:

- **Communication**:You have excellent written and verbal communication.
- **Interpersonal Skills**: You exhibit strong interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- **Leadership**:You are driven and highly motivated to lead others towards a common goal.
- **Resourcefulness**:You demonstrate a personal orientation toward action and accepting responsibility for the results.
- **Teamwork**: You are able to work with others toward a shared goal. You encourage and support your colleagues by offering for help and asking for help when needed.

**Application Process**:
The Town of Saugeen Shores is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We will accommodate the needs of applicants under the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). The Town of Saugeen Shores will make every effort to accommodate applicants with disabilities in its recruitment and selection process. Information received relating to accommodation needs of applicants will be addressed confidentially in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990 and will be used for the purpose of this employment opportunity only.