Junior Social Scientist

Junior Social Scientist - ( 25000020 )

Description

Grounded in safety, quality, and ethics, our experts lead their fields and guide our work with rigor, a creative spirit, and vision for growth.
We draw from more than 20 technical specialties around the globe and are committed to fostering an inclusive community of diverse talents, backgrounds, and expertise.
We are a place to apply your passion and collaborate with top environmental talents on work that's critical to our clients and the communities we support.
Join a team that has the environment down to a science.

Your Opportunity

Stantec has opportunities for junior and intermediate Socio-Economic Specialists to join our Human Environment team in British Columbia, Yukon, or Alberta.

The successful candidate will support impact assessment projects and conduct socio-economic research and analysis across various industries.
The ideal candidate has recent experience conducting socio-economic impact assessments within western Canada and has excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.
Experience and interest assessing impacts of resource development projects on community health as measured through changes in social determinants of health is an asset as is experience in GBA.
The ideal candidate is comfortable supporting or leading community-research programs, household sample surveys, and key informant interviews.
The successful candidate will work with our multidisciplinary team, and in particular with our Indigenous services team, to identify innovative ways to understand potential project impacts under the constantly evolving regulatory environment.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Prepare socio-economic baseline studies and impact assessments
• Support assessment engagement activities and related documentation
• Lead or participate in community-research programs involving workshops, focus groups and meetings, telephone and in-person interviews, and surveys (scalable to the size of project)
• Contribute to the development of socio-economic mitigation and enhancement measures
• Provide solution-based advice to team members and clients on socio-economic issues
• Manage budgets and work scope
• Proposal writing
• Client management, client communication and business development
• Technical writing and report preparation
• Promote a strong health and safety culture and actively participate in Stantec's Health, Safety, Security and Environment Program

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Fluent understanding of Canadian and provincial environmental assessment guidelines, legislation and regulations
• Experience or exposure to preparing environmental assessments for industrial, infrastructure, and resource development projects
• Familiarity with socio-economic related sub-disciplines (e.g.
  economic assessment, community infrastructure and services, land use, community health)
• Demonstrated technical writing, presentation, and public speaking skills
• Demonstrated experience in public and stakeholder engagement
• Experience supporting engagement and/or socio-economic assessments of Indigenous communities (preferred)
• Understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods
• Familiarity with analytical methods used to support socio-economic assessments, such as economic input-output modelling, GIS overlay analysis, health impact assessment, and gender-based analysis plus
• Willingness to travel for project work
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact across a broad range of audiences/technical backgrounds including internal and external clients and regulatory agencies
• Fluency with the use of Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Familiarity with statistical analysis packages and R programming/application (preferred)
• Desirable capabilities:
  experience preparing and defending community health assessments

Education and Experience

University degree in Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, Resource Management, Planning, Environmental Health or related social or environmental sciences discipline.

Two to five years of relevant experience in community health, social impact or related field.

Must possess a valid driver's license.

Typical office environment working with computers and remaining sedentary for long periods of time.
Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.
Ability to lift and move items and equipment up to 50 lbs.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Primary Location:
Canada-British Columbia-Burnaby

Other Locations:
Canada-Alberta-Edmonton, Canada-Alberta-Calgary, Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada-Yukon-Whitehorse

Employee Status:
Regular

Job Level:
Entry Level

Travel:
Yes, 20% of the Time

Schedule:
Full-time

Job Posting:
Jan 10, 2025, 12:
50:
07 PM

Req ID:
25000020

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