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Sierra Harvey

Sierra Harvey

167 Salish Way Snuneymuxw, Nanaimo BC ,BC

Summary

Sierra is a multi-talented Project Manager, successful at taking on dynamic challenges with tight deadlines, competing interests and is a skilled and tactful communicator. She has excellent planning and decision-making skills, with varied expertise in landscape design, social planning, ecological restoration, reporting, business administration, community services, consulting and campaign management.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Business Coach

Ethos Career Management Group / Work BC
Duncan, BC
03.2023 - Current
  • Worked with marginalized women across BC to build solid business plans as well as identify and address challenges in their operations and startup.
  • Strengthened crisis communication skills with clients that were experiencing mental health struggles. Program is government funded and centered towards women and nonbinary persons with disabilities, who are keen to enter self employment.
  • Contributed to monthly and quarterly reports, and daily correspondence with my team and up to 25 clients.
  • Facilitated workshops with groups of business owners to share experiences and challenges, for groups of up to 8 people.
  • One on one coaching for clients on how to develop strong lasting relationships with key partners such as investors, suppliers, customers.
  • Led team building exercises designed to strengthen collaboration among clients in group coaching sessions.
  • Used strong conflict resolution and communication skills to cultivate and strengthen lasting client relationships in one on one meetings.
  • Strategized and built custom business plans for clients, including writing sales forecasts, budgets, and utilized key planning tools for success longterm.
  • Conducted periodic assessments of client businesses to ensure progress towards established goals.

Project Manager

Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre
Duncan, BC
01.2019 - 08.2020
  • Created youth aged 7-16 nature programming in local parks, protected areas and private land around the Cowichan Valley
  • Worked in partnership with the Quw'utsun Nation to create impactful projects that centered resilience, decolonization, biodiversity and education opportunities.
  • Designed landscape prescriptions in cooperation with the municipal Parks Planner and facilitated the project success.
  • Monitored performance metrics such as cost, timeline, quality control and customer satisfaction levels to meet Eco - Action grant stipulations.
  • Facilitated regular meetings between stakeholders to discuss project requirements, objectives, or outcomes.
  • Presented specific projects for review by senior managers, board meetings, and stakeholder groups, including multiple presentations to the Cowichan Watershed Board and other community groups.
  • Managed portfolio of projects within scope and budget.
  • Handled portfolio of initiatives to support organization's mandate of creating an ecological restoration school program for ages 9-17
  • Worked with a diverse team, including board of directors.

Provincial Chapter Coordinator

Salmon Beyond Borders
BC
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Designed creative materials to promote campaigns, including building social media to build a fresh BC driven campaign.
  • Managed budgets and tracked expenses related to campaign.
  • Organized press event at local Victoria gallery to generate excitement about salmon and cultural connections in transboundary territories. Other events included rallies, fundraisers, and conferences to generate publicity for campaigns in both Juneau, AK, and Victoria, BC.
  • Monitored progress of campaigns, providing opportunities for improvement based on feedback from stakeholders and constituents, to campaign director in Juneau.
  • Coordinated volunteer teams and made proactive changes to maximize effectiveness and build community over shared values, including organizing "night of the salmon folk" with 'Namgis First Nation elders at Patagonia Victoria.

Field Technician

Redd Fish Restoration
Ucluelet, BC
04.2017 - 10.2017
  • Habitat restoration of streams, estuaries, and old growth forests with the goal of protecting and rebuilding wild salmon populations
  • Working closely with the 5 Nuu-chah-nulth Nations in the area, centering traditional knowledge.
  • Benthic surveying in small creeks for invertebrate activity utilizing the Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network resources.
  • Mapping, seining estuaries, data input, and field labour.
  • Hosted volunteer days and worked on the organization’s social promotion in the community.
  • Working in remote locations on uneven, rugged terrain.

Owner/Founder

Wilder Restoration
Victoria, BC
04.2020 - Present
  • Developed small business from grassroots; creating brand, strategy, administration and policies.
  • Created landscape design proposals for new developments, parks, private residential and commercial projects and natural areas
  • Responsible for the protection and conservation of plants, water, soil and wildlife within designated project areas.
  • Extended relationship building with clients, community groups, working partnerships, non profits, municipalities and project collaborators.
  • Project management for contracts ranging from $5,000 to $20,000.
  • Organized regular meetings between clients and team members to discuss project scope and timeline.
  • Expert plant ID skills local to Pacific Northwest.
  • Developed strategies to educate clients on the importance of ecosystem services and biodiversity.
  • Conducted research and analysis of market trends, customer psychology to keep competitive, sharing these findings in our social media and with clients.
  • Facilitated team workshops to review growth opportunities and innovate within the field of ecological restoration and business opportunities.
  • Proficient at, Microsoft Outlook, Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint; Google Suite; Dropbox; OneDrive; iCloud; Quickbooks; Adobe Acrobat Pro; Zoom; Skype; Field Maps; Earthmate; BaseCamp (Garmin); iNaturalist; Survey Monkey; Canva; Facebook; Instagram
  • Familiar with ArcGIS (Geog 222) and (micro credential Spring 2025 planned NIC).

Education

Diploma - Restoration of Natural Systems

University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts - Geography, Environment and Sustainability

University of Victoria

High School Diploma -

Ucluelet Secondary School

Skills

  • Practiced urban planning theory and field work during a 6 week sustainability urban planning field school in Europe through UVIC geography department
  • Landscape design for 4 years operating Wilder Restoration
  • Coordinating correspondence between myself and up to 20 clients at a time, as a business coach with Ethos and Work BC
  • Business administration including invoicing, estimates, budgets and procedure development and reporting
  • Experienced in tactful communication working intimately with vulnerable clients
  • Active board member at Social Planning Cowichan for 25 years, participating in multiple strategic planning meetings for the organization
  • Grant writing and Project Development, most recent a grant proposal for Macadam Park in Cowichan Valley- Environmental Damages Fund
  • Presented at the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration at UVIC in 2021
  • Youth educator and facilitator at the Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre, working with school groups to connect them to local restoration projects in the Cowichan Estuary
  • Coordinating climate resiliency projects within the Cowichan and Koksilah Watersheds with the Cowichan Watershed Board
  • Coordinating with governments of all levels, including First Nation groups, non-profit organizations and various stakeholders within the Cowichan Valley and Transboundary Waters of Southeast Alaska, Washington and British Columbia
  • Skilled Technician and Consultant in Ecological Restoration and landscape design both in urban and backcountry settings
  • Education programming for youth and adults, including the Restoration of Freshwater Systems program at the Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre
  • Communications, digital marketing and social media management both for non profits and businesses
  • Proficient administration skills, graphic design, and marketing
  • Event Planning, organizing and coordination
  • Project Management, preparing budgets, performance monitoring, leadership and mentorship
  • Efficiently learned multiple new reporting and data managment software

Volunteer Experience

  • Cowichan Social Planning, Board of Directors Present
  • Quw'utsun' Cultural Connections Society, training and Volunteer 2017 and 2023
  • Nanaimo Area Land Trust, Volunteer Present
  • Cowichan Valley Naturalists, Board of Directors 2020-2022
  • Cowichan Valley Land Trust, Volunteer Coordinator 2022-2024
  • Nature Conservancy of Canada, Garry Oak Restoration 2023
  • Gathering Our Voices, Volunteer 2018
  • Juan De Fuca Search and Rescue, GSAR 2016-2019
  • Cowichan Watershed Public Advisory Group, 2017
  • Parks Canada Invasive Species Program, 2012-2015
  • Society of Geography Students, Director 2013-2015

References

Genevieve Singleton 

Nature Educator/Consultant/Mentor

Phone Number: 250-701-1054

Email: twinflower4@gmail.com

Amber Sparks 

Program Manager Ethos Career Managment Group 

Phone Number: 250-668-6302

Email: amber.sparks@ethoscmg.com 

Timeline

Business Coach

Ethos Career Management Group / Work BC
03.2023 - Current

Owner/Founder

Wilder Restoration
04.2020 - Present

Project Manager

Cowichan Estuary Nature Centre
01.2019 - 08.2020

Field Technician

Redd Fish Restoration
04.2017 - 10.2017

Provincial Chapter Coordinator

Salmon Beyond Borders
01.2017 - 01.2019

Diploma - Restoration of Natural Systems

University of Victoria

Bachelor of Arts - Geography, Environment and Sustainability

University of Victoria

High School Diploma -

Ucluelet Secondary School

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