Senior Indigenous Rights and Consultation Lead

We are currently seeking a Senior Indigenous Rights and Consultation Lead to join our team. We specialize in meaningfully integrating Indigenous rights, relationships, values, and perspectives into our planning and impact assessment processes.

This is a new position and is based at an of our Ontario offices:
Dowtown Toronto,. North York, Oakville, Hamilton, Guelph, Kitchener, London, Chatham, Windsor, Kingston or Ottawa
. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

The successful candidate will support our planning, environmental science, and engineering technical groups across Dillon to: provide guidance on the Duty to Consult and associated engagement processes and best practices, including approaches to meaningful engagement; support relationship building with Indigenous communities through project consultation and engagement; integrate Indigenous Knowledge into assessment and planning processes; and undertake socio-cultural and Aboriginal and Treaty rights impact assessment processes in accordance with best practices and emerging approaches.

Our teams work with a range of public, private, and Indigenous clients on a variety of exciting projects across the country, including infrastructure, environmental assessment, and planning projects.

Dillon Consulting Limited (Dillon) is a proudly Canadian, 100% employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, we offer a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

At Dillon, we strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation and thrive on interdisciplinary collaboration, empowering our people to challenge conventional thinking and build careers focused on creating a lasting impact in our communities. We are committed to ongoing professional development and celebrate the unique perspectives that each team member brings to the table.

Employee ownership is available to all Dillon team members, and over 60% of our employees own shares in Dillon. Through employee ownership, we return the financial benefit created by our project work to the very people who created that value. Because we are an employee-owned firm, your voice will be an essential part of our shared success.

• Lead and support baseline programs and effects assessments with respect to Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and cultural impact assessments.
• Support, guide and develop resources to support understanding of the Duty to Consult and impacts on Aboriginal and Treaty rights and interests.
• Provide advice on current best practices and legal rulings related to the Duty to Consult and Accommodation.
• Provide technical expertise and advisory support to project teams and clients related to Indigenous Knowledge/Indigenous Land and Resource Use (IK/ILRU), rights and interests, cultural protocols/considerations, and other related matters (e.g., UNDRIP, FPIC).
• Conduct and contribute to detailed research, including jurisdictional and legislative framework reviews.
• Support socio-economic data collection and assessments (qualitative and quantitative).
• Contribute to territorial planning projects with the objective of asserting rights, title and jurisdiction.
• Contribute to environmental assessment projects, and other planning or policy projects including baseline and background research, report writing, socio-economic data collection and analysis, IK/ILRU studies, and fieldwork (as required).
• Communicate with clients, community leaders and members, staff and others regularly in a clear and professional manner, both orally and in writing.
• Prepare and provide review of high-quality reports and deliverables in line with best practices and appropriate cultural protocols.
• Support Indigenous community consultation and engagement programs and activities.
• Lead and support meetings and facilitate engagement sessions with clients, community leaders and members, and regulators.
• Manage and coordinate projects and project-related programs.
• Provide mentorship to and manage more junior staff including delegating project-related tasks to team members with an appropriate level of direction, guidance, review and feedback.
• Collaborate with and support technical and professional staff from across the company and sub consultants to complete project assignments.
• Travel for project work across Canada as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Contribute to ongoing business development activities including development and enhancement of relationships with new and existing clients.
• Lead and support marketing initiatives, including profile building exercises.
• Lead and support proposals and work plans.
• Collaborate with staff across Canada for the…