Senior Indigenous Relations Advisor

South Bow; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

South Bow seeks an experienced Senior Indigenous Relations Advisor to support Indigenous engagement for the Prairie Connector Project across Alberta and Saskatchewan. You will lead respectful engagement with Indigenous Nations, communities, and groups, ensuring concerns are understood and opportunities identified throughout project development and execution.

The role involves close collaboration with internal teams, regulators, and contractors, traveling regularly to communities and project

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive Indigenous relations experience in field or project settings.
• Experience supporting engagement with Indigenous Nations and communities along major projects.
• Strong understanding of Indigenous rights, Treaty rights, regulatory engagement, and CER expectations.
• Excellent facilitation, negotiation, and written communication skills.
• Ability to translate community feedback into practical project actions and risk mitigation.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Responsibilities

• Lead Indigenous relations for a major pipeline project across Alberta and Saskatchewan.
• Build trust-based relationships with Indigenous Nations and communities along the footprint.
• Plan and deliver engagement activities informing project scope, schedule, and mitigation.
• Document community interests and advance issues with internal project teams.
• Coordinate timely responses, track commitments, and escalate risks as needed.
• Advance Indigenous economic participation opportunities (procurement, employment, training).
• Support CER consultation and engagement by maintaining engagement records and follow-up evidence.
• Provide senior advisory input on risks, strategy, and community priorities.

Skills

Indigenous relations

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory engagement

Risk management

Education

Post-secondary education (Indigenous studies, business, comms, enviro, public policy, law, natural resources)

Tools

CRM systems

Job description

At South Bow, we do one thing, and we do it well: safely moving oil between some of the world’s most critical markets.We’re building our high-performing team with versatile thinkers who thrive on solving big challenges together.If you’re ready for a position where your skills are highly valued and your work is incredibly important, we want to meet you. Bring your talents to a new streamlined energy company, dedicated to operational, commercial and safety excellence as we pursue our critical purpose of delivering the energy people need.

The Opportunity

South Bow is seeking an experienced Senior Indigenous Relations Advisor to support the delivery of Indigenous engagement across the footprint of the Prairie Connector Project, with a focus on Alberta and Saskatchewan. This role will lead respectful, timely, and meaningful engagement with Indigenous Nations, communities, and groups along the project footprint, ensuring concerns are understood, information is shared clearly, issues are advanced for resolution, and opportunities for Indigenous participation are identified throughout project development and execution.

The Senior Advisor will work closely with internal teams, Indigenous groups, community stakeholders, regulators, contractors, and communities to support consultation and engagement activities required for a federally regulated pipeline project. The role will help align engagement records, community feedback, commitments, and issue management with Canadian Energy Regulator expectations and South Bow’s Indigenous Relations Policy.

This role may be based in Calgary or within communities located along the Prairie Connector Project footprint and requires regular travel throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a senior field-facing Indigenous relations lead for a major pipeline infrastructure project across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

• Build and maintain respectful, trust-based relationships with Indigenous Nations, communities, leadership, administrators, consultation offices, economic development corporations, and community representatives along the project footprint.

• Plan and deliver engagement activities that keep communities informed about project scope, schedule, construction activities, potential effects, mitigation measures, and opportunities to provide input.

• Listen to, document, and help advance Indigenous community interests, questions, concerns, and project-related issues through the appropriate internal project teams.

• Support issue resolution by coordinating timely responses, tracking commitments, escalating risks, and ensuring follow-through on agreed actions.

• Support the advancement of Indigenous economic participation opportunities, including procurement, contracting, employment, training, and capacity-building initiatives

• Support Canadian Energy Regulator consultation and engagement requirements by maintaining accurate engagement records, commitments, evidence of follow-up, and issue tracking.

• Provide senior advice to project leadership on Indigenous relations risks, opportunities, engagement strategy, community priorities, and potential effects on Indigenous rights and interests.

• Collaborate with environment, land, regulatory, construction, legal, and communications teams to integrate Indigenous input into project planning, permitting, routing, mitigation, and execution decisions where appropriate.

• Prepare briefing notes, engagement summaries, meeting materials, risk updates, and reports for internal project governance and regulatory processes.

• Represent South Bow professionally in community meetings, open houses, leadership meetings, site visits, regulatory discussions, and project engagement forums.

Minimum Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Indigenous studies, business, communications, environmental studies, public policy, law, natural resources, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Indigenous relations, consultation, engagement, or community relations, ideally within pipeline, energy, major infrastructure, natural resources, or construction environments.

• Demonstrated experience supporting major project development or execution, including engagement with Indigenous Nations and communities affected by project planning, permitting, construction, or operations.

• Strong understanding of Indigenous rights, Treaty rights, consultation expectations, regulatory engagement processes, and Indigenous participation in Canadian resource and infrastructure projects.

• Experience supporting Indigenous engagement activities for federally regulated projects and working knowledge of Canadian Energy Regulator requirements.

• Strong issue management, facilitation, negotiation, meeting management, documentation, and written communication skills.

• Ability to translate community feedback and engagement outcomes into practical project advice, risk mitigation, and action plans.

• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to Indigenous communities, project locations, and field offices across Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting federally regulated pipeline applications, construction projects, or major Canadian energy infrastructure projects.

• Experience with Indigenous engagement, consultation, or capacity funding processes in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

• Experience identifying and advancing Indigenous contracting, employment, training, procurement, or equity-related opportunities on major projects.

• Experience using engagement management, commitments tracking, CRM, or regulatory record-management systems.

• Working knowledge of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, CER filing expectations, and Indigenous engagement practices for federally regulated energy infrastructure.

This position requires candidates to have:

• Valid authorization to travel to the United States.

• A valid driver’s license and ability to provide a driver’s abstract.

About our business

South Bow’s existing oil & liquids pipeline infrastructure connects Alberta crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets in Illinois, Oklahoma, Texas and the U.S. Gulf Coast. We remain committed to meeting the energy needs of North Americans today, while advancing our Liquids Pipelines System for the demands of the future. Connecting growing Canadian and U.S. crude oil supply to key markets, leveraging existing assets and seeking new opportunities to continue to provide our customers with access to the destinations they need.

South Bow is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the U.S. government.

Learn more

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Thank you for choosing South Bow in your career search.

* Depending on qualifications, the successful candidate may be offered a position at a more appropriate level and/or ladder.

* Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country in which the position is based with no restrictions.

* All positions require background screening. Some require criminal and/or credit checks to comply with regulations.

* South Bow is committed to provide employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available on request during the recruitment process. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats or communication supports by contacting [e-mail].