NEWS & CAREERS
Looking for funding for a project? The Odonaterra team has added updated details of current funding opportunities available to Indigenous communities. The list has funding opportunities for projects including:
capacity building
economic development
environmental management
climate change
food security & sovereignty
forestry
governance, land claims and land management
impact assessment
mining and mineral exploration
You can view and download the list here: Funding Opportunities 2025
We recently held our annual staff retreat in Vancouver! During our retreat members of our team were grateful to attend the Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effect’s (ICCE) conference, which was an amazing learning and sharing opportunity. To finish the conference on an excellent note, we held an amazing dinner with our current team, our former employee Richard Truman, some of our clients, and some of our family members.
We also held a strategy session where we reviewed our past accomplishments and learning opportunities, and brainstormed ideas to make our team even stronger.
As Odonaterra’s longest employee of five years, we presented Fiona Wirz-Endrys with an award to recognize her tireless dedication and exceptional work.
We ended our week off with a team building day where we took ourselves to great heights by crossing the Capilano Suspension Bridge!
As remote workers, it was a true pleasure to spend the week together in-person. Odonaterra is so thankful to have such an intelligent, hardworking, and fun team. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for the company and for our awesome clients!
As our Community Impact & Indigenous Planning Specialist you'll lead our team in supporting our client communities with Indigenous community-led land use plans and comprehensive community planning, provide input to new corporate policies and protocols, and actively promote our services. Be a part of our growing team and contribute to our corporate culture as we work together to advance reconciliation and make a positive impact.
Deadline to apply: May 1, 2025
Email your resume and cover letter to careers@odonaterra.com to apply
As our Community Impact and Social Research Specialist, you'll provide support in conducting community-based research and impact assessment projects, provide input to new corporate policies and protocols, and actively promote our services. Be a part of our growing team and contribute to our corporate culture as we work together to advance reconciliation and make a positive impact.
Deadline to apply: April 14, 2025
Email your resume and cover letter to careers@odonaterra.com to apply
Odonaterra’s 2024 word of the year is gratitude. 2024 was a year filled with new employees, partnerships, opportunities, growth, learning, and capacity. Our team gained a new Impact Assessment Planner, Mathilde Butler, and a new Operations Coordinator, Lindsay McCabe. Our team was grateful for the time and quality of work that Stephanie Ruddock and Richard Truman contributed during their time at Odonaterra before leaving in 2024 to pursue different opportunities.
Our team gained knowledge and capacity in food security and sovereignty, which enabled us to expand our services to offer food security and sovereignty planning and host our first ever webinar!
While there is still progress to be made in the world of Indigenous reconciliation, rights, and self-determination, our team was extremely grateful to have worked with communities and experts across Canada on projects that pushed the bar forward. Such projects include Indigenous-led impact assessment, community-created impact assessment toolkits, climate change resiliency strategies, land claims, health and environment studies, and food security and sovereignty planning.
Members of our team were grateful to attended a variety of conferences this year to support professional development goals and to leverage important networking opportunities, including the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada conference in Toronto, the International Association for Impact Assessment’s annual conference in Dublin, Ireland, The Quebec Association for Impact Assessment’s annual conference in Quebec City, The Ontario Association for Impact Assessment annual conference in Toronto, and Food Secure Canada’s Towards Sustainable Foods Systems conference in Montreal. This year, you can find we’ll be attending and presenting at conference including the Indigenous Center for Cumulative Effects conference (ICCE) in Vancouver.
We want to thank all our clients, employees, and partners for all that we achieved in 2024. We look forward to strengthening our existing relationships and building new ones in 2025 while continuing to deliver services that empower communities and uplift self-determination.
