Intermediate Community Planner

Beringia Community Planning is seeking an Intermediate Community Planner based in North Vancouver, BC. The role requires experience in Indigenous community planning and involves leading inclusive planning processes, with at least three days a week in the office. The position offers a salary of $72,800 - $114,400 and includes benefits. Applications are welcome from Indigenous and non-Indigenous candidates, but only from those residing in the Metro Vancouver Area.
This position is available to applicants living in the Metro Vancouver Area. Applications from other Provinces or outside Canada won't be reviewed.

We welcome applications from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous candidates. Priority will be given to Canadian Citizens and Permanent Residents. Beringia does not provide sponsorships for BCPNP or LMIA applications.
• Submit a resume, including contact details for 3 references and a 1 to 2-page cover letter in just one PDF.
• In your cover letter please summarize how your background, skills, strengths and professional goals would contribute to Beringia’s work and team, highlighting your specific experience working with Indigenous communities
• Incomplete applications without cover letter won't be reviewed.

Address your application to: Jeff Cook, Principal

Submit your application electronically to: damundaray@beringia.ca and jcook@beringia.ca

Hours: 40 hours a week, with minimum 3 days per week at our office in North Vancouver

Salary: $72,800 - $114,400 depending on experience

Benefits: Health benefit package based on cost share, sick and wellness days, professional development

Benefits: Health benefit package based on cost share, and professional development support

Application deadline: March 15, 2025

Are you a Community Planner with experience in applied Indigenous Community planning and development? Are you excited about leading inclusive, collaborative and culturally responsive planning processes? Do you enjoy travelling to remote communities to facilitate or support community engagement sessions and work with local planning teams? Do you excel at taking information from multiple sources, like stories from Elders, statistics from reports, and workshop results to create innovative, accessible, and user-friendly communication tools, maps, planning tools and reports? If yes, apply for the position of Intermediate Community Planner with Beringia Community Planning.

Company Profile

Beringia is a small, dynamic, and award-winning community planning firm that specializes in working collaboratively with Indigenous communities to strengthen community health and relations, respect and honour culture, promote land stewardship, and generate economic independence for current and future generations. Beringia excels in participatory community-based planning where processes are guided by local, cultural protocols and values.

We offer a variety of services to communities, including comprehensive/ strategic planning, research, decision analysis, communication, facilitation, and training. These services have been applied to topics as diverse as land use planning, comprehensive community planning, governance, health and wellness, infrastructure, sustainability planning, and community economic development. We value building strong relationships (both with our community relationships and internally as a team) based on respect, trust, listening, and applied learning. Our approach empowers communities to decide their own future based on self-determination, strength, and positive change. See www.beringia.ca for details.

Job Description

Reporting to Jeff Cook, Principal and working with an experienced team of community planners, each day will vary as you will both lead and support a broad range of community planning processes and projects (e.g., land use planning, community planning, infrastructure planning, training/facilitation projects, health planning, and numerous types of Indigenous governance work).

Primary duties will include:

• Managing complex and culturally sensitive community planning projects and processes in a range of substantive areas

• Traveling to remote communities to facilitate community engagement processes as needed

• Liaising with, and in some cases mentoring, local community planning staff

• Designing and facilitating community engagement processes

• Researching and analyzing planning history, trends, and results from community engagement

• Writing and designing innovative, accessible, and user-friendly communication tools, maps, and planning reports

• Supervising and managing planning teams, including junior staff and interns

• Supporting community planning training on various topics

• Preparing proposals and funding applications as needed

Experience and Qualifications Essential

• Master’s degree in Community or Regional Planning or a related discipline plus 7 to 10 years’

planning experience working with Indigenous Nations or related organizations

• Extensive practical experience with community-led planning and development

• Familiarity with the political, historical, and legal context of Indigenous community planning

• Strong cultural competency and sensitivity

• Familiarity with participatory planning theory and practice

• Strong project management skills

• Group facilitation experience and process leadership

• Excellent research, problem-solving, writing, and communication skills

• Strong organization and time management skills

• Motivated, independent, and driven

• Innovative, flexible, and adaptable

• Ability and willingness to travel to remote communities

• Proficient at using MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Experience leading land use, community or health planning processes

• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite - InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop

• Visually and graphically creative

• Certification or eligibility for certification with the Planning Institute of British Columbia or the Canadian Institute of Planners

Thanks for your interest. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.