DEPARTMENT INFORMATION
The mandate of the Department of Environment and Climate Change is to manage land, water, air, wildlife, and forests. This includes promoting, planning, and supporting the wise and sustainable use of natural resources, and protecting, restoring, and stewarding the environment for the social and economic benefit of all Northwest Territories residents.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Knowledge of the technical aspects of renewable and non-renewable development projects and resource management and law enforcement techniques is critical to be able to identify possible environmental impacts through written information and field inspections and to make decisions or give direction to prevent or minimize environmental damages resulting from development projects.
- Requires extensive knowledge of investigative techniques and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, including evidence gathering techniques, executing search warrants, maintaining continuity of evidence, court proceedings, and interviewing and interrogation techniques in dealing with suspects, informants and witnesses. Specifically related to:
- Assessing technical environmental aspects of lease, land use permit and water licenses applications, amendments and modification.
- Determining environmental impacts resulting from a variety of industrial, municipal, commercial and private activities and the mitigative measures required to minimize these impacts.
- Application of the risk assessment system to determine the frequency of inspections needed to ensure compliance to minimize environmental impacts.
- Inspection and investigative methods, environmental audits techniques and negotiating skills to conduct inspections and investigations.
- Human psychology to deal with violators who try to withhold evidence and to diffuse potentially hostile situations; negotiating and conflict resolution skills; interviewing/interrogations techniques in the course of an investigation.
- The gathering and keeping of evidence; of legal research; search and seizure principles and methodology; legal terminology, methods and procedures used to organize and search files and collect pertinent case information for legal
Typically, the above qualifications would be attained by:
Typically, the above is obtained through the completion of a 2 year Diploma in a Natural Resources Tech Program as well as 2 years of related resource management experience, including experience in safety, firearms and evidence collection and presentation. Incumbents must possess a valid class 5 Driver’s License, and be able to produce a medical clearance to confirm fitness to perform physical requirements of the position. A Boating License and a Firearms Acquisition Certificate are required within 6 months of hire.
