Required Skills & Role

What you bring to the team

Strategic Leadership Skills:

• You have strategic leadership and management skills to provide leadership to a diverse, multi-disciplined team and oversee and schedule work in accordance with corporate, divisional and branch priorities.
• You have demonstrated experience developing, building and leading organizational capacity through inclusive, positive, and values-based leadership in areas of organizational design, recruitment, talent and performance management and labour relations matters.
• You have the ability to be responsible for the overall compliance with legislative statutes, collective agreements, government and ministry policies, directives, guidelines and commitments related services.
• You have sound judgement and political acuity skills to provide authoritative advice and guidance to senior management.
• You have experience developing and managing a budget, approving expenses, and procuring goods and services within relevant directives, including the financial Delegation of Authority.

Technical Expertise:

• You have knowledge and understanding of resource management principles and their inter-relationship and significance as they relate to wildland fire management.
• You have a thorough understanding of the principles and practices used in control of wildland fires, fire operations, wildland fire management strategies and fire behaviour.
• You have a proven ability to interpret and apply relevant legislation such as the Forest Fires Prevention Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act and other regulations and guidelines.
• You have a demonstrated ability to function in a broad range of senior supervisory/technical positions in emergency situations.

Communication and Stakeholder Relationship Skills:

• You have a proven ability to develop and manage partnerships and contracts to achieve program goals and objectives.
• You have excellent oral communication skills to provide instruction and direction to staff, to inform senior management of contentious issues, provide interpretation, advice, options, and recommendations, and to deliver presentations and training to diverse audiences.
• You have excellent written communication skills to respond to requests, prepare documents, reports, procedures, presentations and budgets using standard office software and tools.
• You have experience and have demonstrated tact, diplomacy, and political acuity in interpreting legislation/regulations in response to inquiries from the public, delegates from remote northern communities, clients, and numerous internal/external partners/stakeholders.

Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

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