Job Description

Competition # : 39471

Department: Environment and Climate Change

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG

Closing Date: \xe2\x80\x8b7/15/2023\xe2\x80\x8b (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

About Us

Nova Scotia Environment and Climate Change\'s role is to protect the environment, human health and through regulatory excellence, conservation, partnership, and promotion. To achieve this, we strive to develop legislation, regulations and policies, process notifications, applications, and approvals for regulated activities based on sound scientific knowledge and expertise. Our goal is to educate, inspect and enforce to ensure compliance with legislation and regulations. We also proactively respond to environmental, conservation, and human health risks and work to develop programs and deliver services to enhance protection in these areas.

This position is based in the Climate Change Division\'s (CCD) Adaptation Team. We support provincial departments, industry stakeholders and communities to prepare for the impacts of climate change. We offer climate change adaptation strategy planning and implementation support and coordination, as well as training and reporting. While the adaptation strategies of our partners vary widely, we strive to ensure our work reflects current best thinking and approaches for climate adaptation research and practice and advances larger public policy goals.

About Our Opportunity

As a Climate Adaptation Coordinator, you will be responsible for implementing aspects of our Adaptation Program designed to support Nova Scotia government departments, industry sectors, and communities become more adaptive to climate change by developing and implementing adaptation strategies. Our capacity and skills building program supports the achievement of Nova Scotia\'s Climate Change Plan for Clean Growth.

Primary Accountabilities

You will be responsible for, but work collaboratively in achieving the following:

• Supporting government departments and sector partners in developing and implementing adaptation strategies to help minimize sector-specific risks
• Designing and supporting capacity building and skills development programs and activities with partners from a wide range of backgrounds
• Supporting program modifications, redesign, and implementation
• Developing guidance and learning materials, including workshop plans, presentations, guidance material, and learning curriculum
• Leading multidisciplinary teams through a participatory process of strategy development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation
• Designing and facilitating workshops, conducting research, authoring reports, and delivering presentations
• Project Management

Specific Tasks and Accountabilities

• Developing materials and correspondence to recruit team members for strategy development and implementation teams.
• Designing and facilitating interactive and engaging meetings and workshops
• Engaging with all partners to build and maintain strong sustainable multi-stakeholder teams
• Identifying opportunities for funding, projects, and policy as well and funding needs and options
• Participating in regularly scheduled peer learning and reflection meetings and events
• Researching sector-specific adaptation best practices and processes
• Connecting stakeholders to climate information and resources and to available training and learning opportunities
• Developing team workplans and workplan performance targets
• Tracking data to support monitoring and issuing quarterly evaluation reports
• Researching and presenting policy options and preparing information materials

Qualifications and Experience

As the successful candidate, you will have a bachelor\'s degree in an environment, climate change or other relevant field, and at least 5 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Your experience must clearly demonstrate your skills in capacity building, critical thinking, project management, stakeholder management in complex environments, expert group facilitation, and excellent written and verbal communication. Demonstrated knowledge of and interest in climate change adaptation is required (and experience preferred).

To excel within this role, you must be imaginative, dedicated, self-directed and organized with a proven track record of working both independently and collaboratively. You must show experience building, empowering and leading diverse multi-disciplinary groups. You are technologically adept and have experience using data, theory, and best practice to identify creative, practical, and defensible approaches to overcoming challenges and are able to recognize and articulate appropriate approaches to policy issues. You must show that you can consider different viewpoints and can manage competing perspectives diplomatically, as you will be expected to forge strong relationships of trust and collaboration between partners and meaningfully bring them together in shared activities.

Though it is not a requirement, you are encouraged to identify any experience you have had in grant writing, survey design and analysis, monitoring and evaluation, curriculum design, and online learning platforms (e.g., Moodle), experiential learning and more immersive, arts-based forms of engagement. We also encourage you to identify additional skills not listed which would be assets in this role.

Equivalency

An equivalent combination of training, education and experience will be considered. Applicants relying on education and experience equivalencies must demonstrate such equivalencies in their application.

Benefits

Based on the employment status and Union agreement, the Government of Nova Scotia offers its employees a wide range of benefits such as Health, Dental, Life Insurance, Pension, General Illness (Short and Long Term), Vacation and Employee and Family Assistance Programs. Click to learn more about our various benefits offering and eligibility criteria.

Working Conditions

Some travel may be required across the province.

What We Offer

• Career Development where you have access to career guidance, tools, resources, and ongoing training for every stage of your career.
• Engaging workplace. Our Employees feel valued, respected, connected, and tuned in. We have forward-thinking policies and strategies.
• countless career paths.
• Department Specific Flexible working schedules.

Pay Grade: PR 13

Salary Range: $2,543.38 - $3,091.70 Bi-Weekly

Employment Equity Statement:

Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve. The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented. If you are a member of one of these equity groups, you are encouraged to self-identify on your electronic application.

This is a bargaining unit position initially restricted to current civil service employees represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union (NSGEU). If applying from outside a government office, employees must apply correctly via this link:

Failure to apply correctly means that your application will not be given first consideration as a bargaining unit applicant, and will only be included if external applications are pursued.

External applicants and current casual employees will only be considered if there are no qualified civil service bargaining unit candidates. PLEASE NOTE: Candidates will not be considered for an interview if applications are incomplete or are missing information.

Offer of employment is conditional upon the completion of all applicable background checks and confirmation of credentials, the results of which must be satisfactory to the employer. We thank all applicants for the interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. All questions and concerns may be directed to Competitions@novascotia.ca.

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