Vice President, Economic Affairs and Climate Change
The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) is the national organization for the Canadian mining industry. Its members account for the majority of Canada’s production of base and precious metals, uranium, diamonds, metallurgical coal, and mined oil sands, and are actively engaged in mineral exploration, mining, smelting, refining and semi-fabrication. Representing members committed to sustainability, MAC’s Towards Sustainable Mining® (TSM®) initiative is an award-winning and world-leading standard that fosters continuous performance improvement in environmental and social mining practices. Reporting to the President and CEO, MAC is seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual with experience in economics, energy and climate change policy issues.
Vice President, Economic Affairs and Climate Change
As Vice President, you will work with an ecosystem of our core stakeholder community and partners, including service providers, consultants, elected officials and their staff, senior civil servants, key NGOs and Indigenous leaders, political appointees, and strategic individuals in relevant private sector organizations. You will be the policy lead on energy, climate change policy, northern affairs and critical minerals, leading MAC Committees and advising the CEO on emerging issues and trends. Thanks to your exceptional communications skills, you will develop and support submissions and briefs for presentation to government, parliamentary committees, and other strategic fora. Your writing skills will also be leveraged to write major economic policy submissions to government in pre-budget submissions and MAC’s signature publication, Facts & Figures. You will also lead advocacy on your areas of responsibility, supporting MAC’s President & CEO in such matters.
The ability to effectively work in a collegial atmosphere of competing priorities with a small but highly collaborative team of professionals will be a key success factor in this role. You are full of energy and drive, known for your engaging leadership style and exceptional communication skills. You will possess an undergraduate degree (an advanced degree could be advantageous) and a number of years of experience and demonstrated success in a significant public policy role, ideally with knowledge of climate change policy and energy issues. Knowledge of the mining industry would be an asset, as would the ability to communicate in both official languages. The ideal candidate would possess significant analytical skills, political astuteness and policy sense, as well the ability to excel in dealing effectively with senior executives, elected officials and government representatives. You will be a confident facilitator enabling dialogue between partner groups and members with diverse views.
Should you wish to learn more about this impactful leadership opportunity, please call (in strictest confidence) Nicole Poirier at 613-915-5030, Mike Lupiano at 613-862-2999, or email your CV and letter of introduction to: Vp.mining@lupianosearch.com
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those under consideration for the role will be contacted. The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. Please advise in advance if you require any accommodation during the application or selection process. MAC is committed to employment equity and encourages candidates to self-identify as visible minorities; people from culturally diverse backgrounds; people of all gender identities and sexual orientations; Indigenous peoples; and persons with disabilities.