Job Information
Job Requisition ID: 86225
Ministry: Forestry and Parks
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full-time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary/Wage: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: August 24, 2026
Classification: Natural Resources 8
Salary: $3,165.58 to $4,088.56 bi-weekly ($82,621- $106,711/year)
The Alberta Public Service works to build a stronger province for current and future generations. We make a difference in the lives of Albertans through rewarding and diverse career opportunities.
Alberta is covered by roughly 35 million hectares of forest. Alberta’s Forestry Division supports a policy of sustainable forest management designed to maintain a healthy forest able to sustain itself ecologically while providing for society's economic, social, recreational, and spiritual needs and values.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What We Offer
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How To Apply
Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.
Candidates are required to apply online. Please see Job Application Resources for more information.
In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 - June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.
It is also recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.
Closing Statement
This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.
We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements.
If you require any further information on this job posting or require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Rashi Vaktania at [email protected].
