Project Coordinator, Fisheries Monitoring

Start Date: May 1, 2025

Position status: Hourly status, from May 1 – October 31 with potential for extension

Location: Masset or Daajing Giids, Haida Gwaii, BC

Compensation: $32/hour

About Ecotrust Canada’s Fisheries Program

For over 20 years, Ecotrust Canada’s Fisheries Programs have been deeply rooted in community-drive solution-building on the coast of BC. Our fisheries vision is for resilient fisheries – fisheries that meet the immediate social and economic needs of adjacent communities, without compromising ecological integrity, or the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Notably, we are also a Designated At-Sea (ASOP) and Dockside (DMP) monitoring service provider and have been delivering biological sampling and catch monitoring programs since 2010. Our aim is support the monitoring needs of First Nations and communities.

Position Overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic Fisheries Monitoring Project Coordinator, who will coordinate the delivery of a monitoring program for Ecotrust Canada. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in both hands-on and coordination roles—whether supervising dockside monitors, ensuring accurate fisheries data collection and reporting, or engaging with regulators and clients. The successful candidate will serve as the on-the-ground coordinator for Ecotrust Canada’s fisheries monitoring programs for Indigenous-led fisheries, including programming developed in partnership with First Nations implementing Community-Based Fisheries.

Note: the successful candidate cannot hold a Fisher’s Registration Card, or be involved in the commercial fish trade (buying, selling, processing, or transporting fish).

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

• Supervise monitors, including recruiting and training monitors, managing work schedules for monitors, and supporting monitors on the North Coast of BC in coordination with clients, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and Ecotrust Canada staff for the successful delivery of fishery monitoring services.
• Coordinate fish harvester landings/offloads by monitoring a hail phone and deploying dockside observers to all landings.
• Complete Ecotrust Canada’s dockside monitoring training program to become a certified dockside monitor, allowing you to observe fishery landings by identifying all species landed, record landed catch, perform biological sampling of selected species and report compliance issues.
• Coordinate and oversee data collection and reporting, including:
• Day-to-day running of the Fishery Landing Database and assist in ensuring DFO conditions of licence regarding data collection and data delivery are met including submission of irregularity reports.
• Data entry and checks following Ecotrust Canada’s Quality Management System protocols, responsible for quality assurance and control on data forms, data analysis and information sharing.
• Collect all original dockside data from each location, enter all data ensuring corrections and deadlines are met and biological samples are obtained and submitted.
• Travel as needed to support the training and coverage of staff.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong project coordination and organization skills, including workload management, and written and oral communication.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to maintain professional working relationships at all times.
• Comfortable working on the docks, fishing vessels and handling fish.
• Proficient in MS Excel and Word.
• Availability to work weekends.
• Valid Class 5 driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.
• Ability to pass a criminal record check (required for certification as a Dockside Observer as by Fisheries and Oceans Canada).

Preference will be given to candidates with:

• Lived experience in rural and Indigenous communities in Coastal BC.
• Experience in fisheries and/or fisheries monitoring and/or management.
• Experience working as a team supervisor/crew lead.
• Post-secondary education in environmental/biological sciences or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with multi-stakeholder engagement and process facilitation, partnership development, and collaboration.
• Commercial fishing experience or knowledge of salmon, rockfish and groundfish identification.

This role offers a unique opportunity to be part of an innovative, community-focused fisheries monitoring program that prioritizes Indigenous leadership and sustainable resource management. If you are passionate about fisheries, community collaboration, and hands-on work in the field, we encourage you to apply!

About Ecotrust Canada

Ecotrust Canada is an enterprising non-profit that works with rural, remote, and Indigenous communities toward building an economy that provides for a healthy and resilient natural environment; sustainable and abundant energy, food, and housing; prosperous and meaningful livelihoods; and vibrant cultures and inclusive societies. We call this approach building an economy that provides for life. Our on-the-ground work and systems approach is entrepreneurial, partnership-based, and relentlessly practical. To learn more visit ecotrust.ca.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We will be prioritizing someone who self-identifies as First Nations for this role, and, who is from a rural, remote community in British Columbia. Someone who understands first-hand our program’s mission, to nurture a vibrant and culturally relevant monitoring system.

Ecotrust Canada is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our mission. Diversity includes not only ethnicity and gender identity but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our collective success, and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility.

Reconciliation

Ecotrust Canada is committed to building respectful and reciprocal relationships with Indigenous communities and peoples. We are committed to upholding and respecting Indigenous governance, rights, and title in the places we live, work, and dream together. For more information, please see our Framework for Advancing Reconciliation here.

Job Application - Project Coordinator, Community Based Fisheries Monitoring

Please submit resume and cover letter as one PDF file with “Project Coordinator” in the subject line by midnight on March 13, 2025. Resumes will be reviewed prior to closing date.