Compliance Promotion Specialist

Imagine you have a dozen artificial birds lying on a table beside you as props for the presentation you're delivering to an audience of more than 150 hunters. You are a compliance promotion specialist and today you are speaking to this group about a new federal law designed to protect migratory birds in Canada. You are using the artificial birds to show these hunters which species are protected under the new law and are now illegal to hunt. It is your job to explain the new law, how it works, and how it will affect the upcoming hunting season.

As a compliance promotion specialist, you have been working on the new hunting compliance program for several years. When experts were drafting the migratory bird law, you provided input and assisted with stakeholder consultations. You also participated in a national working group to develop a national compliance promotion plan. As a group, you decided on a number of activities to raise awareness and ensure that stakeholders and the public are properly informed about the law and how it will affect them. For example, part of the public education program includes advertising the new regulations on the radio and in newspapers, distributing information brochures, adding a bulletin to the government's website, and submitting articles and ads to hunting magazines.

You also mailed information letters to registered hunters and arranged to have a summary of the law attached to every hunting permit issued. Your role doesn't end at public education. Now that the law has come into force, you are involved in applying Environment Canada's Compliance and Enforcement Policy, including providing scientific and technical support to enforcement officers checking for violations. A large part of your job is answering questions on new laws and ensuring they are being adhered to.