Description
What you'll do
* As a professional member of the Indigenous Relations Team, provides specialized expertise in building and maintaining ongoing First Nations relationships and advancing reconciliation, facilitating the resolution of conflict, and ensuring duty to consult and related regulatory processes are executed.
* Leads relationships with First Nations in Southwest BC to foster collaboration and advance reconciliation.
* Leads BC Hydro's consultation with First Nations on capital projects related regulatory and provincial authorizations 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 communities in the Province.
* Participates in the research, assessment and development of business strategies pertaining to Indigenous Relations. Identifies and analyzes issues and develops options for consideration. May assume the lead role in managing key Indigenous Relations issues and initiatives for the company.
* 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 Project Coordinators and other 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.
* As a professional member of the Indigenous Relations Team, provides specialized expertise in building and maintaining ongoing First Nations relationships and advancing reconciliation, facilitating the resolution of conflict, and ensuring duty to consult and related regulatory processes are executed.
* Leads relationships with First Nations in Southwest BC to foster collaboration and advance reconciliation.
* Leads BC Hydro's consultation with First Nations on capital projects related regulatory and provincial authorizations 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 communities in the Province.
* Participates in the research, assessment and development of business strategies pertaining to Indigenous Relations. Identifies and analyzes issues and develops options for consideration. May assume the lead role in managing key Indigenous Relations issues and initiatives for the company.
* 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 Project Coordinators and other 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.
Contact
BC Hydro
6911 Southpoint Drive
Burnaby
British Columbia Canada
www.bchydro.com
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1 Jul, 2026
