Seed the North is a landscape scale ecological restoration company working on and in the soil side by side with Indigenous communities, government, businesses, nonprofits, and research institutions to create and sustain good jobs restoring wildfire and erosion affected areas, fighting the biodiversity crisis, and sequestering carbon.
We are actively building our team and expanding our campus to increase our capacity to fulfill these mission critical projects for the boreal and subboreal and their communities.
Due to the urgent and vital nature of ecological restoration, the Executive Assistant / Operations Coordinator should be an engaged, curious, intelligent problem solver with a high capacity for detail. You will be supporting the founding principal, focusing on keeping Seed the North nimble and organized.
In this role, you will contribute to the curriculum planning, promotion and delivery of our land based training workshops for Indigenous communities.
You will complete many small but critical tasks, some in the span of an hour and others that are part of six plus year projects.
You will be working with our collaborators and crew to give timely and complete correspondence and report to our funders and clients.
You will learn new things every day, largely set your own schedule over the course of a week, and help the founding principal set her schedule over the course of the month.
Within this full time permanent position, you are free and encouraged to propose vacation and continuing education up to three months of the year that supports your vibrancy and growth as an individual and/or in terms of your role in the organization.
Location: Hazelton, BC
Job Type: Permanent / long term
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000 plus continuing education and travel
Seasonal Workload: 9 months full time on site
2 months paid education + 1 month paid vacation
Pay Structure: Bi-weekly payroll
We at Seed the North are grateful to live and operate on the unceded territory of the Gitxsan people.
In keeping with our commitment to cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace, we encourage applications from members of groups that have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples, Indigenous peoples of North America, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQ+ persons.
How to Apply
Please send a carefully written cover letter, resume, and writing sample to careers@seedthenorth.ca prior to closing date of March 21, 2025, 11:59pm PT
We are a landscape scale ecological restoration company working on and in the soil side by side with Indigenous communities, government, businesses, nonprofits, and research institutions to create and sustain good jobs restoring wildfire and erosion affected areas, fighting the biodiversity crisis, and sequestering carbon.
1. Ecological restoration
Seed the North’s symbiosis of methods, values, and goals grows directly from walking the landscape with our collaborators, crew, and research associates.
1A. Methods
-identifying boreal and sub-boreal areas of catastrophic wildfire and riparian erosion that have limited prospects for natural regeneration, and are crucial parts of wildlife corridors
-determining species of Indigenous value through community led collaboration (see section 2 below)
-prescription planning based on the reference ecosystem and mindful of assisted migration
-seed collection forecasting based on mast years, weather, and predation
-seed collection training and capacity building (see section 2 below)
-auxiliary methods including cuttings
-wild stand seed collecting, including cut testing, source documentation, and moisture management
-seed processing, testing, banking, and record keeping to highest standards
-seed enhancing and multi-species vesseling with soil ameliorants
-disseminating the seed vessels on the restoration site in relation to microsite characteristics (bare mineral soil, nurse objects, aspect, and biocrusts) and macrosite characteristics (wetlands and glaciofluvial landforms)
-monitoring and long term land stewardship
1B. Values and goals
-accelerating beyond natural regeneration for time sensitive community and biodiversity targets
-securing carbon already in the soil, and rebuilding the soil’s capacity to support a healthy ecosystem
-maintaining and rebuilding wildlife corridors and habitat
-prioritizing Indigenous community land relationships
-fortifying ecosystem resilience to the severity and frequency of future wildfire and other climate disturbance
2. Community led collaboration / capacity building / training
All of Seed the North’s landscape scale projects are led by the Indigenous communities whose ancestral territories are being restored. Within this framework, Seed the North:
-develops customized curricula
-co-leads land-based workshops with Indigenous elders and local knowledge keepers
-conducts training sessions for meaningful and well paying work in all aspects of section 1A above
Capacity building is fundamentally about projects that do not have an end date. These projects are designed to create livelihood streams for community members of multiple generations in land stewardship and monitoring to determine what more the land needs, and to collect data to continue to improve our methods and germination outcomes
3. Research
Since the beginning, Seed the North, University of Toronto forestry school, and BC Biocarbon, funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, have collaborated on our seed enhancement tech, bringing professors and graduate students from the lab into the field to conduct rigorously designed trials for the sake of high and reliable germination outcomes