Indigenous Rights Engagement Specialist

Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment Are you a trusted advisor and a problem solver If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation in a flexible work environment this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.

Your Opportunity

Dillons Environmental Approvals Technical Group is seeking an Indigenous Rights Engagement Specialist to fill an existing vacancy within our multidisciplinary team of professionals.

The successful candidate will support our planning environmental science and engineering technical groups across this role you will: assist with engagement processes related to the Duty to Consult; support relationship-building efforts with Indigenous communities through project consultation; help integrate Indigenous Knowledge into assessment and planning; and support socio-cultural and Aboriginal and Treaty rights impact assessment processes. Our teams work with a range of public private and Indigenous clients on a variety of exciting projects across the country including infrastructure environmental assessment and planning projects.

At Dillon we operate as one team. The successful candidate will be based out of our Vancouver office.

This position requires working in-office a minimum 4 days per week.

What your day will look like

Technical Execution and Project Support

• Support the collection of Indigenous Knowledge as well as and socio-cultural and traditional land and resource use data collection.
• Perform and coordinate background research compilation synthesis and analysis.
• Support baseline programs and effects assessments with respect to Indigenous peoples including Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and cultural impact assessments.
• Conduct qualitative data analysis and interpretation.
• Prepare high-quality reports and deliverables in line with best practices and appropriate cultural protocols.
• Support Indigenous community consultation and engagement programs and activities.
• Support socio-economic data collection and assessments as required and appropriate.
  

Learning and Development

• Commit to self-development and ongoing learning and professional development.
• Contribute to Dillons corporate profile through active participation in professional associations and committees.

• A degree in social sciences geography resource management Indigenous studies anthropology archaeology or a related field.
• 1 to 2 years of directly relevant experience preferably in the consulting industry.

• Experience working on federal and provincial environmental assessment projects.
• Experience working with and/or for Indigenous communities in Canada in the areas of Indigenous Knowledge traditional land and resource use and socio-cultural assessments.
• Verbal and written communication report writing and interpersonal skill.
• Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to complete multiple project demands within tight timelines.
• Adaptive and responsive in the face of emerging challenges and opportunities.
• Highly developed critical thinking skills.
• Valid drivers license.
• Willingness to travel as needed.
• Able to work across multiple time zones as needed.

Compensation:

$55700 - $83600

Dillon is including the salary range that we in good faith believe may offer for this position. It will be dependent on the successful applicants education experience and skills in addition to internal equity and geographic region. Dillon reserves the right to pay outside of the posted range contingent on factors unrelated to an applicants gender or other status protected by provincial and/or federal law.

Why choose Dillon

We live our core values:

• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous Development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter especially when its hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences;
• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust.

In addition we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan

• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.

• A competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions

• Flexible work hours and hybrid working options

• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to offer a variety of flexible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Learning and Development opportunities

• As a knowledge-based business we use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how mentoring to share lessons advising to round out perspectives and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

• Focus on Innovation

• The ability to anticipate examine and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business our culture people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to todays problems and tomorrows opportunities.

• Employee and Family Assistance program

• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.

• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

• Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
• Wellness Subsidy
• Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership purchase of home fitness equipment yoga classes and dance classes.

About Dillon

Dillon is a proudly Canadian employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning engineering environmental science and management. We partner with clients to provide committed collaborative and inventive solutions to complex multi-faceted projects. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure protecting the environment and developing communities.

Now operating for over 75 years we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canadas Best Managed Companies for 19 years in a row and has the distinction of being a Platinum Club member in this program.

Health & Safety at Dillon

Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillons core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform and the active ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.

Employment Equity Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon

Dillon is committed to employment equity and an inclusive diverse workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities. If you require accommodation during the interview process please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you.

Technology enablement and the use of AI at Dillon

We invest in modern technologies to enable continuous improvement across the organization. Please be advised that Dillon Consulting utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process to increase efficiency and fairness. While AI supports this process all hiring decisions are made by our human recruiting team. By applying you acknowledge and consent to this use.