Role Responsibilities Are you interested in supporting the sustainable management of Albertas 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 qualified position within the Resource Inventory and Biometrics Section responsible for coordinating and continuously improving the departments Permanent Sample Plot Program.

This role: Supports the collection, maintenance, analysis, documentation,



and use of permanent sample plot and related monitoring data across Albertas 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.

📌 Resource Analyst Edmonton
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton