Government Relations Advisor

Where your career meets Canada’s future
At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the work we do matters. Every day, our people help connect Canada to global markets, strengthen supply chains, support sustainable growth, and shape the future of Canada’s largest port.

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Where your career meets Canada’s future
At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the work we do matters. Every day, our people help connect Canada to global markets, strengthen supply chains, support sustainable growth, and shape the future of Canada’s largest port.

If you're looking for purposeful work where your contributions make a difference, you'll find it here - supported by a team that is collaborative, innovative, and committed to excellence.

Why join us
At The Port Authority, We’re Committed To Delivering An Employee Experience That Is As Rewarding As The Work Itself. We Offer

Meaningful work that contributes to Canada’s trade and economic prosperity

Opportunities for learning, development, and career growth

A collaborative and inclusive workplace culture

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits

Flexible programs that support employee wellbeing and work-life integration

Join a team that embraces innovation and continuous learning while delivering technology solutions that support one of Canada’s most important trade hubs.

Build relationships with decision-makers, provide strategic advice, help advance initiatives that have regional and national significance, and promote Canada’s largest port. Your work will help ensure that critical infrastructure, trade, environmental, and community priorities are understood and advanced through meaningful engagement and collaboration.

Build a career with purpose
If you’re looking for work that is meaningful, challenging, and connected to something bigger, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and discover how your career can help shape Canada’s future.

The government relations advisor provides strategic advice regarding the government and key stakeholder relations components of critical files. This includes: relationship building and maintenance, providing advice and guidance on strategic messaging, recommended approaches, and issues management, particularly, but not exclusively, as they relate to port authority-led infrastructure projects and tenant-led development projects. Reporting to the manager and senior strategic advisor, government relations, this position participates on and may lead, as appropriate, related tasks as required, including developing productive relationships with government and stakeholders, meeting and event scheduling and arranging, and the development of plans and strategies, reports, briefing notes, submissions, presentations and other materials.

What Success Looks Like

Working closely with the manager, develop and implement government, regulatory agency and stakeholder communications and engagement activities, including participating/facilitating in meetings, planning and executing outreach programs, and tracking and managing issues

Build and maintain strategic relationships with government representatives at all levels, ensuring communication goals are met As required, provide VFPA representation in BC and across Canada with members of the provincial and federal government, industry, regulatory agencies, First Nations groups and other stakeholders, where tact and diplomacy will be required to reconcile issues in a manner that advances VFPA interests

Monitor, identify, report and provide recommendations on current and emerging issues that may impact corporate initiatives

Under direction, develop and implement outreach, advocacy and other communications strategies, plans and tactics

Ensure communications activities are aligned with other…