Environmental Emergency Management Information - Edmonton, Canada - Government of Alberta

Government of Alberta

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Edmonton, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Job Information:

Job Requisition ID: 47609

Ministry:
Environment and Protected Areas

Location:
Edmonton

Full or Part-Time:
Full Time

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Regular/Temporary:
Temporary (2 years)

Scope:
Open Competition

Closing Date:
September 13, 2023

Classification:
Program Services - Market Adjustment

About Us:

We support environmental conservation and protection, sustainable economic prosperity and quality of life.

Role:

Reporting to the Consequence Manager, the Environmental Emergency Management Information Officer represents the Government of Alberta and Environment and Protected Areas, and provides leadership in the delivery of provincial strategies, planning, designing, and facilitating outreach and education programs focused on environmental emergencies while promoting and supporting environmental stewardship in a coordinated approach to address public and stakeholder needs in a provincial context.

During emergency and crisis events, communication to the public, stakeholders and response partners is one of the most significant actions that contribute to protecting Albertans and their communities.

The position primary focus is to not only respond and manage crisis communications during environmental emergencies, but also create communication strategies and plans to promote and increase the awareness of environmental emergency response preparedness and mitigation activities to prepare the public and communities in Alberta before emergency events occur.

The position will create, develop, and manage projects and program content to meet client needs based on evaluations and needs assessments, and act as a consultant to department staff, municipalities, industry, and the media in crisis and emergency management, including all aspects of the environmental emergency management program.

Responsibilities will include:

Strategic planning and communications
Develop and deliver a departmentwide environmental emergency management strategy, which includes initiatives around environmental emergency mitigation, planning, preparedness, and response.
Provide emergency and crisis communications leadership and direction on incidents and within communities under crisis.
Builds relationships, strategies and conducts planning with a structured tool set; often starting with needs assessments to determine the appropriate approach for each stakeholder group (development of marketing programs and activities, managing and fostering partnerships with schools, communities, and industry stakeholders and developing content for websites and social media campaigns)
Train internal staff on communication techniques to change behaviours of Albertans as well as professional communication in and out of crisis events. Additionally, the position is responsible to deliver communications courses for Environment and Protected Areas staff.
Leading the planning and execution and management of national level communication multijurisdictional events, as needed. In addition, supporting the Crisis and Training Officer in delivering training and exercises for department colleagues.

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor's degree in journalism, communications, public relations, or related field. Minimum 4 years experience communicating environmental issues.

Equivalencies will be considered:

A bachelor's degree in an environmental field will be considered with minimum 4 years experience in communication and public relations.
Related diploma in an environmental field with minimum 6 years experience in communication and public relations.
Related diploma in journalism, communications, public relations or related field with minimum 6 years experience communicating environmental issues.

Additional assets:

The ability to develop, implement and deliver high level engagement processes including world cafes, focus groups, surveys, literature reviews, etc.
Skills in planning multifaceted behaviour change models while simultaneously implementing and reviewing projects already in place.
Knowledge of strategic tools and relationships models needed to manage media in high pressure situations.

APS Competencies:

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans.

We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:

Agility - Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience and work effectively in changing environments.

Creative Problem-Solving - Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

Systems Thinking - Work done is part of a larger integrated and inner-related environment. Allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.

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