Resource Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Are you interested in supporting the sustainable management of Alberta’s forest resources through high-quality forest growth and yield information? Do you enjoy working with permanent sample plot data, forest mensuration, sampling design, statistics, and data management to inform long-term forest management decisions? Are you comfortable working with government staff, forest industry, consultants, contractors, and technical specialists to solve complex monitoring and analysis challenges?

Alberta relies on reliable long-term monitoring data to validate yield assumptions, improve growth models, assess forest productivity, support timber supply analysis and annual allowable cut determinations, and maintain confidence in sustainable forest management decisions.

The Resource Analyst is a professional position within the Resource Inventory and Biometrics Section responsible for coordinating and continuously improving the department’s Permanent Sample Plot Program.

This role:

• Supports the collection, maintenance, analysis, documentation, and use of permanent sample plot and related monitoring data across Alberta’s Crown forestlands.


• Coordinates Permanent Sample Plot Program priorities, annual work plans, establishment and remeasurement schedules, field implementation, data management activities, and program documentation. 


• Compiles, validates, analyzes, summarizes, and reports on permanent sample plot data to support growth and yield analysis, model development, forest management planning, and sustainable forest management reporting.


• Provides technical advice on plot standards, field procedures, sampling design, data quality, monitoring priorities, data interpretation, and the appropriate use of permanent sample plot information. 

This position also supports contracts, standards, external growth and yield initiatives, and other biometrics priorities by working collaboratively with internal teams, forest industry, consultants, contractors, and cross-jurisdictional partners to promote consistent, compatible, and defensible monitoring practices.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

To be successful in the role of Resource Analyst, you will demonstrate the following competencies:

• Systems Thinking: Considers the long-term connections between permanent sample plot data, growth and yield monitoring, forest management planning, timber supply analysis, reforestation monitoring, data governance, and sustainable forest management decisions.


• Creative Problem Solving: Analyzes complex data quality, sampling, field implementation, growth modelling, and monitoring program issues to develop practical, technically defensible, and operationally feasible solutions.


• Build Collaborative Environments: Works collaboratively with internal teams, forest industry, consultants, contractors, FGrOW project teams, and cross-jurisdictional partners to support program delivery, data sharing, and consistent growth and yield monitoring practices.


• Drive for Results: Plans and delivers program priorities, coordinates field schedules and contracts, verifies data and deliverables, maintains documentation, and provides timely recommendations that support forest management decisions.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements A four (4) year university degree in Forest Management, Natural Resources Management, or related field, plus four (4) years of related experience

Related experience includes data management, forest management, forest mensuration, sampling design, statistical analysis, yield estimation, regression analysis, growth modeling, reforestation standards, and/or forest resource analysis

Equivalency: Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of one year of experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.

Assets

• Graduate-level education in forest biometrics, forestry, forest management, natural resource management, statistics, geomatics, environmental science, or a related discipline. 


• Professional designation with, or eligibility for, membership with the Association of Alberta Forest Management Professionals (AAFMP) is preferred. Equivalent professional regulatory designations, such as Professional Biologist (P.Biol.), may also be considered.


• Knowledge of Alberta forestry legislation, forest management planning, annual allowable cut determination, timber supply analysis, reforestation standards, and related policy or regulatory requirements.


• Knowledge of permanent sample plot and temporary sample plot programs, Alberta Vegetation Inventory, forest inventory methods, GYPSY, growth models, or comparable forestry monitoring and modelling systems.


• Knowledge of data governance, metadata, data sharing, data quality, open data, restricted data, authoritative datasets, and Government of Alberta information management practices.


• Experience using tools such as R, SAS, Python, SQL, ArcGIS, Excel, Access, or comparable technologies to manage, analyze, summarize, and report on forest monitoring or natural resource datasets.


• Knowledge of remote sensing products, forest ecology, silviculture, stand dynamics, sustainable forest management reporting, cross-jurisdictional initiatives, or industry-led monitoring programs. 

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.

Notes

This is a full-time, permanent position. The standard hours of work are 36.25 hours per week, Monday through Friday. The position is expected to operate with a significant degree of independence and requires minimal travel.

The Resource Analyst will report to the Edmonton unit located in the J. G. O'Donoghue Building. Work locations for the successful candidate will be discussed upon hiring, but Edmonton location is preferred.

Please provide a cover letter that outline your experience related to the role.

Your resume must clearly identify the duration of each position (including the start and end month and year) and indicate whether the position was performed on a full-time or part-time basis.

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

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