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About the Role
This role offers a unique opportunity to help steward some of Hydro One's most important and transformative partnerships while supporting Indigenous participation in major energy infrastructure projects across Ontario. The successful candidate will play a critical role in advancing Hydro One's First Nation Equity Partnership model, helping ensure that our commitments translate into lasting economic opportunities, strong governance, and mutually beneficial outcomes for First Nation partners and future generations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted relationship leader for Hydro One's First Nation partnership portfolio.
- Build, nurture, and sustain meaningful relationships with First Nation leaders, communities, economic development organizations, and business partners.
- Support culturally respectful engagement and ensure Indigenous perspectives are incorporated into partnership governance and business decisions.
- Help create an environment where partnerships are founded on transparency, accountability, collaboration, and shared prosperity.
- Provide strategic oversight of Hydro One's Indigenous partnership portfolio, including governance, operational performance, and long-term sustainability.
- Represent Hydro One on partnership boards, governance committees, and other joint decision-making forums.
- Lead the implementation and administration of partnership agreements and governance frameworks.
- Ensure commitments made to First Nation partners are fulfilled and partnerships continue to deliver value over time.
- Identify and support opportunities that strengthen Indigenous participation in Ontario's energy sector.
- Work collaboratively with partners to advance economic benefits through investment, employment, procurement, and business development opportunities.
- Support innovative approaches to Indigenous partnerships that contribute to Hydro One's leadership in economic reconciliation.
- Provide advice to senior leadership regarding partnership opportunities, risks, governance matters, and investment performance.
- Oversee partnership planning, budgeting, financial reporting, forecasting, and performance monitoring.
- Review financial models, business cases, investment analyses, and partnership economics to support informed decision-making.
- Ensure strong financial stewardship, transparency, and accountability across partnership structures.
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team dedicated to partnership excellence.
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and culturally safe work environment.
- Build organizational capability in Indigenous partnership management, governance, and relationship stewardship.
- Establish clear goals, priorities, and expectations while supporting employee growth and development.
Requirements
- Post-secondary education in Business, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Law, Engineering, Public Administration, Indigenous Studies, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, lived experience, and leadership experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience building and maintaining trusted relationships with Indigenous communities, governments, organizations, or businesses.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating, structuring, and managing complex partnerships, joint ventures, equity investments, governance arrangements, or similar collaborative business models.
- Strong understanding of Indigenous economic development and partnership principles.
- Experience working with boards, governance committees, and executive leadership teams.
- Strong financial and commercial acumen, including business planning, financial analysis, budgeting, investment evaluation, and reporting.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and consensus-building skills.
- Proven ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments and develop solutions that balance diverse interests.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.
Skills
- Relationship building
- Strategic leadership
- Partnership governance
- Operational performance
- Financial acumen
- Commercial acumen
- Business planning
- Financial analysis
- Budgeting
- Investment evaluation
- Reporting
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Consensus-building
- Stakeholder management
- Team leadership
- Mentoring
- Cultural respect
- Transparency
- Accountability
- Collaboration
- Shared prosperity
Location
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- 10+ years of experience
Education Level
- Post-secondary education in Business, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Law, Engineering, Public Administration, Indigenous Studies, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, lived experience, and leadership experience.
About the Company
- At Hydro One, we believe meaningful partnerships with First Nations are built on trust, respect, shared prosperity, and a long-term commitment to action based economic reconciliation.
- Hydro One recognizes the value of Indigenous knowledge, lived experience, and leadership.
- We are committed to creating a culturally safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace where Indigenous employees can thrive and contribute their perspectives, experiences, and leadership.
- This role provides a rare opportunity to help shape one of the most significant Indigenous partnership portfolios in Canada's energy sector.
- Join us in building partnerships that create benefits for generations to come.
Equal Opportunity
- Hydro One recognizes the value of Indigenous knowledge, lived experience, and leadership.
- We strongly encourage applications from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis candidates.
- Candidates who self-identify as Indigenous and possess the skills, experience, and leadership qualities outlined in this posting are encouraged to apply.
- We are committed to creating a culturally safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace where Indigenous employees can thrive and contribute their perspectives, experiences, and leadership.