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Indigenous Relations Team Lead - North Coast Transmission Line
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Dunsmuir 13
Employment type: Permanent Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 131,100.00 - 165,800.00
What you'll do
- Reporting to the Indigenous Relations Manager and Strategic Lead for the North Coast Transmission Line (NCTL), the
Indigenous Relations NCTL Delivery Team Lead is the operational lead responsible for coordinated delivery across
engagement, permitting process management, and field activities, including:
- Coordinating daily work across IR Specialists and support staff.
- Overseeing Indigenous engagement requirements in permitting workflows
- Overseeing tracking and follow up of Nation comments, inputs, and questions.
- Coordinating field activities, including site visits and guardian (cultural monitoring) programs.
- Ensuring quality, consistency, and completeness of engagement documentation and consultation summaries.
The IR NCTL Delivery Team Lead also :
- Provides leadership and overall direction to a team of 4 – 5 people.
- Acts as the Indigenous Relations Lead by consulting with First Nations (FNs) on North Coast Transmission Line projects.
- Builds and sustains a strong and collaborative team environment with a people-centered leadership focused on staff
empowerment and development.
- As BC Hydro’s senior representative with First Nations, independently and proactively co- designs highly functioning
business relationships, negotiates and implements agreements.
- Delivers high-quality presentations and written materials as well as communicating challenging messages to internal and
external parties.
- Leads relationships with First Nations to foster collaboration and advance reconciliation.
- Proactively aware of, and responsive to, external First Nations needs and has the ability to initiate and sustain the
necessary elements (internal and external to BC Hydro) for building long term relationships with First Nation communities in
the region.
- Partners with departments across the company to effectively frame issues and develop solutions to business priorities
ensuring the integration of BC Hydro’s Indigenous Relations strategy into the broader business.
- Independently manages multiple internal and external competing priorities in a manner that achieves desired outcomes.
- Undertakes a practiced approach to the work that builds knowledge not only into the business unit but the broader
company through the effective sharing of information and auditable record- keeping.
