Job Description
Location: Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Position Title:
Energy Security Coordinator
Starting: September 2023 (12-month, full-time, term position)
Compensation: $23-$25 per hour, depending on experience (35 hours per week)
The Saskatchewan Environmental Society (SES) is a non-profit, registered charity that has been active in Saskatchewan since 1970. SES’s current action areas include sustainable energy and climate solutions, water protection, resource conservation, biodiversity preservation, and reduction of toxic substances.
SES is seeking an outgoing individual to coordinate SES’s project “Addressing Energy Security in Northern Saskatchewan.”
Cold-climate northern, remote, and Indigenous communities face unique challenges related to energy insecurity—it has been a longstanding issue that power is unreliable due to extreme weather and time lags associated with repairs to the power grid. We plan to work alongside one community in northern Saskatchewan to address these energy challenges by assessing community needs, building knowledge-based capacity, and empowering them to become leaders in the transition to a clean energy system. This will be achieved by providing education, training, resources, and support for reducing community-wide greenhouse gas emissions and the tools needed to transition away from unreliable fossil fuels.
Primary activities include :
· Seek a community in northern Saskatchewan interested in working alongside SES on a project that will help begin (or advance) their transition towards reliable, clean energy.
· Foster and maintain relationships with other relevant community stakeholders.
· Organize and facilitate in-person and virtual community engagement and participatory planning sessions with community members.
· Facilitate a feasibility study that includes an analysis of clean energy options, including a cost-benefit analysis, for community members and their leadership to consider.
· Organize on-site energy surveys/audits along with SES’s Energy Conservation Engineer to recommend community-wide building retrofit options.
· Identify and pursue funding sources that could be accessed to bring the clean energy plan to fruition.
· Design a framework/toolkit to support other northern communities in clean energy planning.
· Manage reporting requirements for the project’s funder.
The candidate will possess:
an academic or experience-based background in areas such as environmental policy, community energy planning and/or economics, including demonstratable research skills,
an understanding of clean energy options, as well as the opportunities and challenges involved in designing and implementing clean energy systems,
an outgoing disposition and be comfortable in approaching institutions, businesses, organizations, and municipalities through an anti-oppressive and equitable lens,
a proven ability to relate to and connect with a diversity of people with intersecting identities, both in-person and virtually,
an understanding of Indigenous peoples’ unique histories, cultures, values, and protocols,
an understanding of colonialism, decolonization, and settler/Indigenous relationships,
relationship-building and community engagement skills,
group meeting and facilitation skills,
experience in public speaking and in responding to media requests,
the ability to juggle many tasks simultaneously and complete them in a timely manner,
a demonstrated ability to direct and manage successful campaigns and projects, and
excellent interpersonal communications skills and writing skills.
Community development experience is an asset.
Prior relationships with Indigenous stakeholders in northern Saskatchewan are an asset.
SES is currently seeking someone who is able to work in-person from the SES office with proof of COVID-19 vaccination, but alternative community/working locations may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Must hold a valid driver’s license.
Occasional weekend or evening work may be required, as well as travel to the participating community (approximately three times throughout the timeframe of the contract).
We value the contributions that people fromequity-seeking groups bring to our organization, leadership,and movement building. We encourage applications from 2SLGBTQIA+ people, Indigenous peoples,people of colour, low-income earners and the unemployed, immigrants and refugees, and people withdisabilities or another equity-seeking group with which you identify. If you wish to identify as belongingto an equity-seeking group(s), please feel free to indicate so in your cover letter.
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NZP is a capacity-building initiative, designed to help upskill mid-career fossil fuel, Indigenous and skilled workers to future-proof their careers by diversifying their skillset and allowing them to take advantages of opportunities in the rapidly growing clean energy technologies sectors. Of interest to you, we also provide financial incentive for employers who hire workers in net-zero related jobs, which would include renewable energies and/or retrofitting.
The Net-Zero Pathways Program
offers employers:
Wage subsidies for up to 37.5 hours per week during a 6-week period
Compensation for onboarding costs, including training costs
Reimbursement for trainee prerequisite courses/certificates (such as WHMIS, First Aid, ESTS, CSTS, etc.)
Job-site specific safety training, and verification that each participant has the required tickets and certifications
Employability and employer-based training requirements.
Success coaching and guidance for each participant
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