Job Description
Senior Engagement Practitioner - ( 25000028 )
Description
Grounded by safety, quality, and ethics, we come up with solutions that perfectly fit the site. We know what it takes to balance competing project interests with creativity and efficiency. We know what to look for, and we know how to get the job done-the right way. Join a team that has the environment down to a science.
Your Opportunity
Nested within Stantec's multiple disciplinary Human Environment team, our Engagement practitioners specialize in public, stakeholder, and regulatory engagement, engagement and consultation reporting, public facilitation, client relations, and record keeping.
The successful candidate will support impact assessment projects, lead engagement activities, work on multi-disciplinary teams, and support our Human Environment team members. The ideal candidate has recent experience conducting project-specific engagement with the public, clients, and regulators in western Canada. We are looking for an individual with excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, has comfort supporting or leading community-based activities, and understands regulatory reporting. The successful candidate will work with our multidisciplinary teams to successfully deliver on project works while maintaining schedule and budget.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and implement engagement and consultation plans for a variety of regulatory processes
- Lead or participate in community engagement programs involving workshops, focus groups and meetings
- Provide solution-based advice to team members and clients on engagement issues
- Provide technical and regulatory support and guidance, including preparation of application and other materials, for projects from early planning stages, through regulatory processes and into and beyond construction
- Oversee and deliver: regulatory roadmaps, application scoping, records of engagement, engagement plans, consultation reports, and information request processes
- Manage budgets and work scope
- Proposal writing
- Client management, client communication and business development
- Engagement report writing, report preparation and review
- Promote a strong health and safety culture and actively participate in Stantec's Health, Safety, Security and Environment Program
Qualifications Your Capabilities and Credentials - Experience with community and public engagement activities (e.g. organizing and leading open houses, creating engagement materials, writing engagement reports)
- Fluent understanding of Canadian and provincial environmental assessment guidelines, legislation and regulations
- Experience or exposure to preparing environmental assessments for industrial, infrastructure, and resource development projects
- Demonstrated technical writing, presentation, and public speaking skills
- Familiarity with the fields of socio-economics and Indigenous Services and supporting engagement and/or socio-economic assessments of Indigenous communities is an asset
- Willingness to travel for project work
- Strong interpersonal skills to interact across a broad range of audiences/ technical backgrounds including internal and external clients and regulatory agencies
- Fluency with the use of Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Experience with MS Project is an asset
Education and Experience University degree (graduate level preferred) in Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, resource Management, Planning, Environmental Health or related social or environmental sciences discipline is considered an asset.
Three to ten years of relevant experience in environmental consulting, community and public engagement, social impact or related field.
Must possess a valid driver's license
Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Pay transparency laws require employers to provide the following information for positions that may be in the following jurisdiction(s):
Salary Range(s): - Lower Mainland $92,600/BC Other Areas $87,400 - Lower Mainland $138,900/BC Other Areas $131,000 Min/Max Pay Range for postings located in BC (Lower Mainland includes Vancouver & Burnaby)
The final agreed upon compensation is based on individual education, qualifications, experience, and work location. At Stantec certain roles are bonus eligible.
Benefits Summary: Regular full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
The benefits information listed above may not apply to union positions because benefits for such positions are governed by applicable collective bargaining agreements.
Primary Location : Canada-British Columbia-Burnaby
Other Locations : Canada-British Columbia-Kelowna, Canada-British Columbia-Terrace, Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada-Yukon-Whitehorse, Canada-British Columbia-Quesnel, Canada-British Columbia-Sidney, Canada-British Columbia-Kamloops, Canada-British Columbia-Victoria, Canada-British Columbia-Prince George
Organization : BC-1232 EnvSvcs-CA British Columbia
Employee Status : Regular
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Travel : Yes, 20 % of the Time
Schedule : Full-time
Job Posting : Jan 10, 2025, 12:42:29 PM
Req ID: 25000028
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