Planning Forester

Role Responsibilities

Are you a professional forester who is dedicated and passionate about sustainable forest management in Alberta? Then this is the professional position for you!

You will lead the development of forest management plans through multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder planning teams. The position, through coordination, facilitation, direction, and guidance achieves integrated forest management planning in Alberta in accordance with the Alberta Forest Management Planning Standard administered by Forest Management and Wildfire Mitigation Branch.

Your key accountabilities are to communicate and interpret legislation, policies, guidelines to resolve complex forest management, stakeholder, and resource integration issues. In this position you will have direct engagement with regional staff, the forest industry, academia, other provincial jurisdictions, and partner agencies to ensure that forest management plans meet the departmental goals and objectives.

Your responsibilities are, but not limited to :

• Lead the development of forest management plans for forest management agreement (FMA) area forest management units (FMUs) as well as non-FMA FMU's using effective strategies that manage forested public lands in alignment with legislation while accounting for multiple values, such as but not limited to, forest health, fish and wildlife, forest economic development, wildfire mitigation and biodiversity.
• Direct and manage processes in a credible and confident manner acquired from related experience using well developed communication, project management, problem-solving, and mediation skills. This position has due diligence responsibilities (i.e., Plan, Do, Check, Act cycle) for the department's approach to forest management regarding adaptive management.
• Develop and maintain effective internal department and cross Ministry relationships to ensure forest management plans align with regional and sub regional plans as developed and approved.
• Assist with continual improvement of provincial forest management planning processes and performance monitoring.
• Identify and contribute to problem solving sustainable forest management challenges.