Shared Worth Options
Shared Worth Options (SVS) is an environmental and group improvement consulting agency. Our workforce contains people who’re expert in science, cultural heritage, planning, and regulatory fields who work alongside First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Nations throughout Canada. We assist Indigenous Nations with technical steerage, regulatory recommendation, peer evaluations, planning, and negotiation methods associated to main useful resource improvement initiatives. On the coronary heart of our work is a dedication to braiding Indigenous Data with Western science to advance our purchasers’ targets of prosperity, stewardship, and self-determination.
We’re in search of a Senior Environmental Scientist with a specialty in Contaminated Websites/Remediation to hitch our workforce. This position is good for somebody with a deep understanding of contaminated websites, reclamation, or closure planning related to mining initiatives, oil and fuel extraction, and/or nuclear, or different related expertise with hydroelectric, linear hall (particularly pipelines or roadways), or different useful resource improvement.
Our Work Tradition
At SVS, we worth the ambitions and passions of our workforce members, each professionally and personally. To assist work-life stability, we provide versatile hours, distant work choices, and time-in-lieu. We intention for this place to align along with your life targets fairly than detract from them. Our work is guided by the priorities of our group companions, together with seasonal calendars (harvest seasons, festivals, and so on.) and mission deadlines. By way of sturdy communication and mutual assist, we create a piece atmosphere that fosters each private well-being {and professional} progress.
Our Dedication to Inclusion and Variety
SVS is dedicated to constructing numerous groups that replicate the communities we serve. We encourage purposes from Indigenous peoples, ladies, members of the worldwide majority (seen minorities), LGBTQ2S+ people, veterans, and individuals with disabilities. We’re an equal alternative employer, and in case you require lodging through the hiring course of, please tell us—we’re joyful to assist you.
Indigenous Hiring Choice
We prioritize hiring Indigenous candidates, together with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people, to construct groups that replicate the lived experiences of the communities we serve. We acknowledge that formal schooling and job expertise usually are not the one measures of experience. When you’ve got conventional data and community-based expertise that align with this position, we encourage you to use, even when your {qualifications} differ from these listed.
For those who really feel comfy, we invite you to self-identify as Indigenous in your utility. We perceive the impacts of colonization and respect that it is a private determination. Any info shared will stay confidential and can solely be utilized by our hiring workforce to assist our dedication to Indigenous hiring.
We look ahead to welcoming new workforce members who share our dedication to supporting Indigenous sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and community-driven improvement.
The Place
We’re searching for an Senior Environmental Scientist, Challenge Director (distant inside Canada) to fill a full-time everlasting place.
Be a part of Our Staff and Make a Significant Impression
At Shared Worth Options, you can be a part of a workforce that honors Indigenous Data, fosters sturdy relationships, and works alongside Nations to assist sovereignty, stewardship, and self-determination. Your experience, lived experiences, and views shall be deeply valued as we collaborate on numerous initiatives that make an actual distinction for the land, water, and communities we serve.
We’re dedicated to creating a piece atmosphere that’s inclusive, culturally affirming, and grounded in respect, reciprocity, and collaboration. Our workforce helps each other, recognizing the significance of stability between work, household, group, and private well-being.
We provide:
- Aggressive compensation & revenue sharing
- Distant work allowance
- Complete well being advantages & worker help program (well being, dental, imaginative and prescient, and life insurance coverage)
- Retirement financial savings plan with employer contributions
- Skilled designation reimbursement & improvement alternatives
- Paid time without work, together with trip, sick go away, cultural days, bereavement, and household care go away
- Winter tire rebate to assist secure journey
- Versatile work choices, together with distant work
We welcome you to convey your complete self to this position—your data, your ardour, and your connection to group. Be a part of us at Shared Worth Options and be a part of a workforce devoted to uplifting Indigenous voices, defending the atmosphere, and creating lasting constructive change.
Necessities:
- A level in Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, Chemistry, Pure Useful resource Administration, or comparable equal
- 10+ years skilled expertise engaged on contaminated websites, reclamation, or closure planning related to mining initiatives, oil and fuel extraction, and/or nuclear, or different related expertise with hydroelectric, linear hall (particularly pipelines or roadways), or different useful resource improvement
- Demonstrated experience in website characterization, human and ecological danger evaluation and remediation applied sciences.
- Sturdy understanding of Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial laws (e.g., provincial and federal contaminated websites frameworks, CCME) and regulatory approvals and allowing processes
- Abilities and expertise working in cross-cultural settings, ideally with First Nation, Métis, and/or Inuit communities
- Data of land and useful resource administration points, environmental, well being, socio-economic and cultural points associated to main improvement initiatives and the way they could intersect with rights and pursuits of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities.
- Glorious technical writing and analytical expertise, together with expertise with information administration and evaluation, getting ready technical experiences, and speaking complicated points in plain language (written, verbal, shows) for quite a lot of audiences
- Expertise coordinating and conducting technical evaluations of Environmental Impression Assessments and/or allow purposes for improvement initiatives from a number of sectors (e.g. mining, oil and fuel, vitality)
- Expertise creating and implementing mitigation measures, remediations plans, and environmental results monitoring packages.
- Distinctive consideration to element, organizational, and mission administration expertise.
- Confirmed observe report managing complicated initiatives, budgets and multidisciplinary groups.
- Thrives in a workforce setting, accepts accountability and works to deadlines
- Willingness to journey throughout Canada and to northern and distant communities
Obligations:
- Directing or managing initiatives centered on technical peer evaluations of regulatory environmental allowing and approvals experiences and purposes for pipelines, vitality, mining, waste, and different main infrastructure improvement initiatives by a complete understanding of consumer wants, priorities, and goals.
- Articulating the interactions between proposed mission actions and the rights and pursuits of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities, highlighting penalties, alternatives, and options to assist dialogue with the Crown and Proponents.
- Suggesting acceptable mitigation, compensation, and lodging measures to handle environmental and/or socio-economic-cultural impacts of main improvement initiatives.
- Conducting community-based monitoring initiatives, together with subject work and coaching program improvement and implementation.
- Reviewing, designing, implementing and overseeing sampling packages for soil, groundwater, sediment and vapour.
- Decoding chemical, geotechnical and hydrogeological information to evaluate environmental danger and develop remediation methods.
- Making ready and reviewing technical experiences, together with danger assessments, remedial motion plans and closure experiences.
- Constructing and sustaining consumer relationships by a complete understanding of consumer wants, priorities, and goals whereas offering wonderful consumer service.
- Liaising successfully with Indigenous group purchasers, regulators and proponents.
- Offering Obligation to Seek the advice of and strategic negotiation recommendation to First Nation, Métis and Inuit group purchasers as wanted
- Working with cross-functional groups to make sure our purchasers targets are met inside every mission
- Offering clear and concise report writing, senior technical evaluations of experiences, and consumer and group shows
- Enterprise improvement assist
- Assist organizational cultural variety and inclusion mandate initiatives
- Responding shortly and empathetically to consumer wants
Asset {Qualifications}:
- Expertise working with Indigenous communities, together with expertise in northern Ontario/Canada.
- Expertise related to local weather change adaptation.
- Data or expertise associated to ecotoxicology or bioaccumulation of contaminants.
- Expertise offering coaching in environmental monitoring or influence evaluation.
- Expertise with planning and implementing communication and session packages and actions.
- Proficiency with GIS, information visualization instruments or environmental modeling software program.
Tell us if you communicate: French, Cree, Ojibway, Oji-Cree, Blackfoot, Dene, Innu, or different languages that is likely to be helpful for this place.
Summing it Up – Why Do you have to Apply?
- Totally distant working
- Enjoyable firm tradition
- Studying and profession progress alternatives
- Versatile working hours
- Significant work
Our head workplace is on the standard territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit score First Nation and the historic lands of the Attawandaron Individuals. We honour the unique ancestors of this land and likewise supply respect to our Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Métis neighbours. We try to be accountable by acknowledging this historical past and cultivating respect in {our relationships} with our Indigenous neighbours and the land.