Regional Recreation Delivery Coordinator

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 61476
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 4, 2024
Classification: Program Services 4 Market Adjustment

**Salary**: $2,757.39 to $3,604.17 $ bi-weekly ($71,967 - $94,068/year)

Forestry and Parks - Lands Operations Division is responsible for administration of regulatory approvals and compliance on public lands for commercial, industrial, recreation, and agricultural sectors, under the Public Lands Act. With over 300 staff administering over 20,000 active dispositions, interacting with a complex mix of legislation, regulation, and policies, the Division is pivotal to the social, environmental, and economic needs of millions of Albertans. They also conserve our natural landscapes and wildlife habitat and offer a broad range of nature-based outdoor recreational opportunities for current and future generations.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Our dynamic team is looking for a Regional Recreation Delivery Coordinator who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of recreation management across the Eastern Slopes and beyond. Reporting to the Recreation, Education, and Partnerships Manager, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining program elements that ensure efficient and effective delivery of recreational services. This role requires a highly collaborative approach, working closely with regional and provincial Recreation Management staff, other related program areas, and external stakeholders to support the successful implementation of recreational initiatives on a multi-use land base.

As the Regional Recreation Delivery Coordinator, project management and process development are key skills and outcomes of the role. Areas of work include: supporting several spatial data management initiatives although advanced GIS and data management skills are not required, maintaining an annual cycle of work planning and reporting, education and outreach product development and working with third party trail information providers, and support and coordination of capital infrastructure delivery. You will work with internal teams, external stakeholders, and community partners to integrate regional programs with provincial outcomes, ensuring that recreation opportunities are connected, sustainable, and aligned with broader tourism objectives.

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**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:
Drive for Results: Aligns different groups to achieve goals and realize broader outcomes. Defines work mission to achieve APS goals and integrate projects. Provides bold advice to stakeholders. Proactively improves overall performance, measured through metrics.

Systems Thinking: Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them. Takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities. Anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives. Works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values. Works with others to identify areas for collaboration.

Creative Problem Solving: Works in open teams to share ideas and process issues. Uses wide range of techniques to break down problems. Allows others to think creatively and voice ideas. Brings the right people together to solve issues. Identifies new solutions for the organization.

Developing Networks: Makes working with a wide range of parties an imperative. Creates impactful relationships with the right people. Ensures needs of varying groups are represented. Goes beyond to meet stakeholder needs. Ensures all needs are heard and understood.

**Qualifications**:

- Required:

- The minimum recruitment for this role is a university graduation in a related field (e.g. natural resources, environmental sciences)
- Plus 4 years of experience in a related field

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered based on:

- 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or
- 1 year of experience for 1 year education

Assets:

- Knowledge of Alberta's legislative and policy framework, including the _Public Lands Act_, _Trails Act_ and related policy
- Proven experience in land and resource management, with an understanding of best practices and sustainable development principles
- Expertise in project management, with the ability to plan, execute, and oversee complex initiatives related to recreation management
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and effectively to diverse audiences
- Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities to identi