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Indigenous Relations Specialist - Non Integrated Areas
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 16
Employment type: Temporary Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 109,700.00 - 138,700.00
What you'll do
- As a professional member of the Indigenous Relations Team, provides specialized expertise in building and maintaining
ongoing relationships with First Nations in BC Hydro's Non-Integrated Area (NIA). This includes facilitating the resolution of
conflict and ensuring duty to consult, and related documentation and regulatory processes are executed;
- BC Hydro's NIA is not connected to the main grid and is made up of 14 remote microgrid communities.
- Leads BC Hydro’s engagement and consultation with First Nations on regulatory and provincial authorizations including
responding to information requests, and ensuring adequacy of consultation has been met
- Supports compliance through meeting First Nation conditions and commitments under provincial and federal
authorizations
- Leads the First Nations component on capital projects where relationship, legal, environmental, reputation and other key
risks are moderate to high;
- Develops consultation plans during project scoping including identifying and consulting with Project Managers to execute
the First Nation component;
- Demonstrates advanced knowledge of relationship management, applying persuasive influence and negotiation, and
building and maintaining trust within highly diverse and remote communities in the Province;
- Conducts current and future needs assessment for Indigenous Relations and prioritizes needs;
- Evaluates source and scope of complex situations that may occur during consultation stages, and identifies options and
alternatives for finding resolution while balancing cultural, territorial and other considerations;
- Provides technical leadership to other key business units and junior roles in all aspects of project planning, execution,
documentation, records management and relationship management with First Nations;
- As a technical specialist and leader in First Nation engagement, this position is viewed and accessed by a wide range of
operational areas within BC Hydro to support, intervene in and resolve actual or potential conflicts between BC Hydro
interests and First Nation communities.
What you bring
- University Undergraduate degree in Public Administration, economic development, law, anthropology or related discipline
or equivalent and a minimum of 10 years of progressively more complex responsible and complicated responsibilities
- A minimum of 7 years of experience in a corporate business environment (public or private sector preferably resource-
based organization) including experience in managing multiple projects.
Preferences will be given to candidates with:
