Associate, Indigenous and Community Affairs - Montréal, Canada - Invenergy

Invenergy
Invenergy
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Montréal, Canada

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Invenergy drives innovation in energy. Powered by decades of entrepreneurial experience and unparalleled execution, we solve the energy challenges facing our customers and communities. We provide power generation and storage solutions at scale around the world to create a cleaner energy future. We develop. We build. We own. We operate. We are Invenergy.


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As an Associate, Communities, Stakeholders, and First Nations Relations, you will support and assist the development of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage energy projects in Québec and other provinces.

Your role will be to build a strong and trustful relationship between the company and the communities in which our projects are located, including First Nations.


Responsibilities:


  • Lead local outreach and act as relationship lead with First Nations and municipal officials, chambers and Economic Development Organizations where Invenergy has a development presence in Québec and in Atlantic Canada provinces.
  • Represent the Project and/or Invenergy in meetings with First Nations and municipal officials, landowners, and other stakeholders and in public meetings hosted by the project.
  • Understand and explain benefits of projects to host community members.
  • Collaborate to development and implementation of a structured community relations program across Québec and Atlantic Canada to support Invenergy's planned developments and operating projects
  • The goal of the community relations program will be to build awareness of and position Invenergy as a good corporate citizen both in local project communities and with NGOs in the energy industry, economic development, nonprofit and other realms.

Requirements:


  • Extensive experience with local political and stakeholder engagement in Québec and/or Atlantic Canada.
  • 5+ years' work experience in local economic or real estate project development on linear infrastructure projects, and/or in the renewable and clean energy industry.
  • Strong organizational, networking, leadership, and time management skills.
  • Ability to write effective, concise reports.
  • Familiarity with energy project development, real estate development, transmission and power project engineering are advantageous.
  • English language mastery is required for this role due to the regular communication with English speakers externally.
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