Are you passionate about wildfire management and dedicated to developing the next generation of wildfire professionals? Join Alberta's Wildfire Management Branch as a Wildfire Training Specialist, where your expertise in both wildfire operations and adult education will directly influence the knowledge, skills, safety, and readiness of wildfire personnel across the province. This is a unique opportunity to combine operational experience with instructional leadership while contributing to the protection of communities, natural resources, and lives during Alberta's most critical wildfire events.
Reporting to a Senior Wildfire Specialist, the Wildfire Training Specialist is responsible for designing, developing, delivering, and continuously improving wildfire training programs that support operational readiness, staff competency, and succession planning across the Wildfire Management Branch. This role serves as a subject matter expert in adult learning and wildfire management, providing leadership in training development, stakeholder engagement, program evaluation, and wildfire operations support.
The successful candidate will work with Government of Alberta employees, Indigenous communities, contractors, national partners, and other stakeholders to develop innovative and inclusive training solutions that meet evolving operational needs and legislative requirements. During periods of heightened wildfire activity, this role may also support incident response operations and participate on Incident Management Teams.
Your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Designing, developing, and delivering operational and position-specific wildfire training programs using classroom, field, simulation, online, and blended learning approaches.
- Evaluating, updating, and modernizing training curriculum, delivery methods, and learning technologies to ensure continuous improvement.
- Applying adult learning principles and instructional design methodologies to create effective learning outcomes, exercises, assessments, and evaluations.
- Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders, subject matter experts, Indigenous communities, partner agencies, and operational staff.
- Identifying training gaps, researching solutions, and implementing training initiatives that support operational readiness and succession planning.
- Coordinating onsite training activities, facilities, instructors, equipment, and logistics to ensure successful program delivery.
- Supporting culturally appropriate training delivery that incorporates Indigenous perspectives and promotes inclusion.
- Monitoring emerging trends, legislation, policies, technologies, and best practices in wildfire management and adult education.
- Administering contracts, licensing agreements, memorandums of understanding, and external training service agreements.
- Developing business cases, scopes of work, budgets, audit criteria, and evaluation standards for training services.
- Designing and facilitating "Train the Trainer" programs to ensure consistent and effective training delivery.
