Join our team! We’re hiring a Lakes Program Coordinator

Title of Position: Lakes Program Coordinator

Term of Employment: June 2022 – May 2023 with indefinite extension possibilities

Wage: Commensurate with experience

Benefits: 4 weeks paid vacation & paid sick leave; Health Spending Account benefit

Location: Anywhere in British Columbia, with preference close to a major airport

Deadline to Apply: June 3, 2022

Submit Application to: Georgia Peck, Lakes Program Director: georgia@livinglakescanada.ca

Hours: 40 hours/week, FTE 1

About our Organization:

Join our growing team of incredibly dedicated and passionate people about all things water! Living Lakes Canada bridges the gap between science and action, to foster citizen-based water stewardship. Our mandate is to help people across the country to better understand the intimate connections between water quantity, water quality, land-use, climate change, biodiversity, and healthy human communities by building a water stewardship ethic that we can be proud of.

Job Summary:

Living Lakes Canada is seeking a Lakes Program Coordinator (full-time employee). We are seeking an individual with experience in the environmental non-profit sector, volunteer organization, and community outreach and education. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Experience in logistics and planning to accomplish set goals are necessary. The program coordinator will work independently via remote work space, collaborating with the Living Lakes Canada team, the Lakes Program team, and external partners on a regular basis. The program coordinator will offer up creative, innovative ideas to help deliver the program in an engaging and effective way.

The Lakes Program Coordinator will support the following programs:

• Foreshore Integrated Management Planning
• National Lake Blitz
• Columbia Basin Water Hub
• Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework

Living Lakes Canada is growing our capacity to provide lake monitoring resources, tools and training, to nation-wide partners and collaborators.

Responsibilities: Reporting to the Lakes Program Director, the responsibilities of the Lake Program Coordinator include:

Community Outreach and Education

• Travel within BC and nationally to priority locations during the winter, spring, summer months (February-August)
• Build and maintain positive and collegial relationships with multi-sector external partners
• Generate Memorandum of Understandings to support external partnerships
• Upload, transcribe, report, and analyze data
• Build and maintain appropriate Indigenous relationships
• Work with our Applied Reconciliation Coordinator for Indigenous pre-engagement, ethics, and protocol training
• Complete field work logistics planning including travel, accommodation, food arrangements
• Create a contact database to track partnerships with multi-sector organizations and individuals
• Allocate, organize, and ship monitoring equipment across Canada Volunteer Recruitment and Organization
• Develop strategic outreach protocols and build databases to reach volunteers from across Canada
• Foster existing relationships with volunteers and maintain consistent communication
• Actively build networks and capacity by connecting volunteers with multi-stakeholder partners
• Provide logistical and technical support to volunteers involved in citizen science programs

Fundraising/Administration

• Plan and coordinate fundraising applications
• Contribute to database maintenance
• Complete funding reports

Communications

• Develop communications package to share with partners and supporters
• Maintain current information on program delivery and website updates
• Plan for and coordinate the development of social media content for multiple platforms – Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter
• Assist with program resource and promotional material development
• Support development of video content for promotional and educational purposes

Core Competencies:

• Field work experience
• Teaching experience
• Experience working in a team environment
• Experience working with multi-stakeholder organizations
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize work
• First Nations engagement experience
• Knowledge and experience working with Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Zoom, DocuSign preferred
• Typing skills
• Attention to detail and problem solving skills
• Communicates effectively, both verbally and in writing and feels confident communicating with various professional fields
• Adaptable, capable of handling a large amount of information and data

Qualifications:

• An undergraduate or Master’s degree in a related field
• 3-5 years experience working in environmental monitoring and/or program delivery
• 3-5 years experience working with community outreach and engagement with various demographics and perspectives
• Reliable, self-motivated and independent with a demonstrated ability to collaborate well within a team
• Demonstrated ability to support multiple projects, set priorities, meet deadlines and support others to do the same
• Understanding of NGO operations, including fundraising, finances, administration, human resources, strategic planning and team building
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Commitment to Living Lakes Canada’s mission

How to Apply:

Please submit a resume and cover letter with references to: georgia@livinglakescanada.ca no later than June 3, 2022 at 5:00pm PST. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.