Bio Offres d'emploi - Hope, BC

We’ve partnered with Zoetica Environmental Consulting ( ) to add a Senior Fisheries Lead to their team. If you are a leader looking to apply your knowledge and integrity to responsible environmental fisheries management and the environmental impact assessment (EIA) process, then please read on. We’re looking for someone to work alongside a team of specialists and environmental scientists, to deliver solutions to clients using two-eyed seeing in collaboration with First Nations / IGOs. You would be contributing to EIAs, Indigenous-led EIAs and focused research studies focused on biodiversity issues across Canada.

Zoetica has a history of choosing clients and projects wisely to ensure their work environment allows them all to conduct honest and trustworthy work that aligns with their values.

Senior Fisheries Technical Consultant / Lead Responsibilities

• Management of junior and intermediate staff.
• Design of studies to meet the needs of our clients and that are scientifically valid and statistically rigorous.
• Undertaking or training / overseeing field work, as needed.
• Providing analysis or oversight of analysis of data to produce easily understood summaries.
• Report writing with appropriate use of scientific language.
• Liaise effectively with diverse clients, stakeholders, and right-holders, including the public and members of private, Indigenous, and governmental organizations.
• Work with local Indigenous partners to develop Indigenous-led EIAs that focus on : 1) evaluating impacts to environmental values, including those that relate to rights, culture and values, and 2) implementing mitigation that protects those values.
• Develop budgets, timelines, proposals and work plans to achieve time- and budget- constrained deliverables as part of ongoing projects and proposals.
• Have knowledge of and Quality Assurance / Quality Control Processes (ISO 9001 : 2015).
• Provide oversight and direction for content and writing of reports that support or critique EIAs and related post-EIA compliance reporting (e.g., annual reports),
• Provide writing or oversight of Construction and Operational Environmental Mitigation, Management and Monitoring Plans (CEMPs, OEMPs).
• Provide construction environmental monitoring services, as needed.
• Provide RAPR assessments in BC

The successful candidate has :

The ideal individual brings a breadth of knowledge across fisheries as well as the fields of biodiversity, EIA practice, regulatory requirements and timelines, interweaving of Indigenous / Traditional Knowledge, and industrial processes (including mining, linear corridor, planning, and energy projects).

Compensation and benefits :

Only candidates already eligible to work in Canada will be reviewed. Only qualified candidates will be contacted.