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Our monthly update on environmental careers, events, and training from ECO Canada.

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January is setting the pace for the year ahead. This month’s update highlights active wage funding programs, student and youth hiring pathways, new training through ECO Academy, and a full slate of January events across Canada.


You’ll also find current job openings and early momentum building toward ECO IMPACT 2026. Everything inside is designed to help you plan, hire, and advance early in the year.

In Focus This Month

Key funding, training, and opportunities you can act on now.
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Promotional graphic reading “Start Your Environmental Career” advertising a Student Work Placement (Co-op) program, featuring students collaborating around a table, with text about paid work placements that build skills and experience, a “Learn More” button, and ECO Canada branding.

Student Work Placement Program (Co-op)

50–70% wage funding, up to $7,000

This program connects employers with post-secondary students for paid work placements that provide real-world experience while students are still in school.
Apply Now for Funding
Hire Skilled Newcomers with Confidence – Access candidates, hiring support, and wage funding to fill your green construction roles.
Promotional graphic for a free AI primer titled “AI Skills Bundle,” noting it is an online course with a 16-hour course length, open to all career stages, and featuring a “Register Now” call-to-action button.
Promotional banner advertising Net Zero training rebates, featuring the text “Training rebates available” and “Enhance your skills at remarkably reduced prices,” with a call to action to learn more and register at chba.ca/net-zero-training and a badge highlighting “Huge savings.”

Funding + Employment Programs
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Science Horizons promotional banner showing a young professional working with technical equipment, with the headline “Hire Emerging Environmental Talent,” supporting text about connecting employers with trained youth and funding support, a green “Apply Now” button, and ECO Canada branding.
Green Horizons promotional graphic asking “Looking for work in Calgary?” and “Are you 15–30 and facing barriers to employment?” featuring a smiling young professional wearing a lanyard, with a yellow “Learn More” button and the text “Connect with Calgary employers,” branded by ECO Canada.
Promotional banner with the headline “Strengthen Your Natural Resource Workforce,” showing two workers in safety gear reviewing plans at a job site, highlighting wage support to hire and train young professionals in environmental sectors, with an “Apply Now” button and ECO Canada branding.
Promotional banner reading “Build Your Digital Workforce of Tomorrow,” featuring young professionals working on laptops, promoting an internship program to hire qualified youth and strengthen digital skills, with an “Apply Now” button and ECO Canada branding.

ECO Academy
Visit ECO Academy

Learn new skills this year with our online courses, built for environmental professionals at every stage.
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Goal Setting

EP® Cost: $75

Cost: $99

Explore Training

Leadership Styles

EP® Cost: $75

Cost: $99

Explore Training

Time Management

EP® Cost: $75

Cost: $99

Explore Training
Banner promoting an interactive online workshop titled “Take the Lead: Own the Outcome,” scheduled for January 21, 2026, from 9:00 to 10:30 AM MST, featuring Scott Donald, owner and president of SBD Growth Strategies, with registration fee listed and a “Register Now” call-to-action.

Events + Conferences
Visit the Events Hub

We connect with professionals, 💻 online and 📍 in-person, across Canada.
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Environmental Professionals Meetup: Victoria, BC  

📍 | Jan. 13 | 5–8 PM (PDT) | EP®: Free | Non EP®: $10 + tax

EP® (GHG) Info Session — Application & Eligibility

💻 | Jan. 15 | 11 AM–12 PM (MST) | Free |

Environmental Professionals Meetup: Barrie, ON 

📍 | Jan. 21 | 5–8 PM (EDT) | EP®: Free | Non EP®: $10 + tax

Crop Talk: Career, Stories & Networking

📍 | Jan. 22 | 4–5:30 PM (PST) | Free | Burnaby, BC

From Data to Decisions: MRV for Greenhouse Gas Emissions 

📍 | Jan. 23 | 12:30–4:30 PM (PST) | Free | Vancouver, BC

SBEP Designation – Your Questions Answered 

💻 | Jan. 28 | 11 AM–12 PM (MST) | Free

Equity in Action (Part 2) 

💻 | Feb. 3 | 2–3 PM (MST) | Free
ECO IMPACT 2026 banner with the headline “Future-Ready. Impact-Driven.” promoting the Learning Series and Awards Gala, February 19–20, 2026 at The Westin in Calgary, Alberta, with a green “Register Now” button and partner logos for ECO Canada, Canada, and Alberta.

Job Board | 1,700+ Active Jobs & 30,000+ Resumes

Looking for your next opportunity? Featured jobs hiring this month:
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Energy and Climate Change Specialist

EcoToronto (Vaughan, ON)

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Summer Student - Environmental Assistant

Lakeland Industry & Community Association (LICA) (Bonnyville, AB)

Start Your Application
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Coordinator of Source Protection Program

Oxford County (Woodstock, ON)

Start Your Application
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Call for Validators – Earn $100 – Ocean Alliance Canada

ECO Canada is validating new Blue Economy competency profiles and is seeking professionals in:
  • ESG
  • Fisheries
  • Marine logistics
  • Marine spatial planning
  • Naval architecture
  • Ocean literacy
  • Ocean policy
  • Marine supply chains
  • Marine water quality 

Interested professionals are encouraged to apply and support the development of Canada’s Blue Economy workforce.
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