Join us in shaping Canada’s environmental workforce
Help ensure Canada’s environmental career resources reflect real-world skills, knowledge, and professional practice.
Earn Rewards for Your Expertise
$100 Competency Profile
$50 Career Profile
5 PD Credits
National Impact
ECO Canada has a vast library of free career resources available to help individuals choose their path in the environmental sector. You can help ensure our career resources reflect the real-world skills, knowledge and expertise that drive Canada’s green economy forward. Get rewarded for your expertise: $100 per competency profile and $50 per Career profile.
Influence the development of training programs, education curricula, and career resources used across Canada.
Your feedback ensures that these resources are rooted in professional practice, accurate, relevant, and practical.
Help support youth, jobseekers, and career changers to understand the variety of environmental work available to them.
Receive an honorarium in recognition of your time and feedback and stay tuned for future validation opportunities.
If you are one of our valued EP® or EPt certified members, you will earn 5 PD credits for each contribution you make towards Standard Development.
We need your help to build the world’s leading environmental workforce right here in Canada. We are exploring environmental roles across Canada’s green economy to:
We are looking for experts currently working, supervising, or recently employed in Canada in job titles similar to the ones below to provide feedback on our Career and/or Competency Profiles.
Apply
Complete our short application and tell us about your experience and areas of expertise.
Review
We’ll match you with the Career or Competency Profiles that align with your background.
Provide Feedback
Work with our Research Analysts to review the profile(s) and share your insights.
Our validators review and provide feedback on draft Career and Competency profiles, paying particular attention to:
Core responsibilities
and tasks of the role.
Required skills and competencies.
Knowledge areas of practice.
Work context and environment.
Education requirements and experience levels.
Career pathways and occupational outlook.
For more information about our career resources, and how your feedback will be used, please consult our Resources below!
By volunteering to be one of our validators, you are actively contributing to the development of professionally grounded and future-focused career resources for Canada’s environmental workforce. These resources will be published in late 2026 on our website and continuously updated as new profiles become developed and validated. Get rewarded for your expertise – $100.00 per Competency Profile and $50.00 per Career Profile – and make a tangible contribution to Canada’s growing green economy.
Be a part of building Canada’s leading environmental workforce – your feedback matters!
Generally, the validation process takes two hours in total, but this is dependent on the format you choose. There are two formats to choose from: asynchronous online review or synchronous live review. In the asynchronous online review format, one of our Research Analysts sends you the profile in Word format, and you leave tracked changes and comments in the file for the Analyst to review and integrate into the profile. For the synchronous online review format, our Research Analysts will work with you to find a date and time to meet via Microsoft Teams and conduct a live validation session. Whichever format you choose, the process is run efficiently and with the objective of making the most use of your time.
Your feedback is reviewed by our Research Analysts who are employees of ECO Canada’s Research department. The Research Department is responsible for developing National Occupational Standards, NOS, for the environmental workforce, one element of which is our Career Resources.
Your feedback will be reflected in the content of the profile itself. For example, if you provide feedback on a Competency Profile, you will see different wording choices and language in the competency description, titles, or performance statements. For a Career Profile, you will see changes in the language included in the Role Overview, Job Duties, and Skills sections. The validation process mostly consists of wordsmithing, ensuring that the language of the profiles reflects the realities of the job.
To become a validator, you must reside in Canada and have at least one to two years of experience performing or supervising the work of the specific role you are reviewing. Preference is given to those with more experience in the role, with the hopes of acquiring feedback from those with lengthier industry experience. Our application form will ask you a series of questions regarding your industry and career experience, and one of our Analysts will take it from there.
Your feedback matters because without it, our Career Profiles would be very hypothetical. The validation process is a crucial component in developing our Career and Competency Profiles because it ensures that these profiles are grounded in professional practice, useful tools, and relevant to industry and job seekers. Validation acts as a form of “peer review” by professionals and industry specialists working in the occupation who know the day-to-day realities of the job. Validation helps ensure that ECO’s National Occupational Standards are practical, grounded, and realistic.
Thank you! The honorarium process usually takes between 3-5 business days as one of our Analysts has to coordinate with ECO’s secretary and the appropriate project manager to distribute the funds in gift card format. Please be patient as this process is completed, but in general, it is a relatively quick and easy process. Please check your email inbox regularly for a message from ECO Canada.
Hire a post-secondary student for a meaningful work placement and receive financial support toward eligible wages.
Get reimbursed for up to 50% of eligible student wages.
Eligible employers include Canadian-owned businesses, Canadian subsidiaries, and non-profits of all sizes. Placements must relate to the student's post-secondary program in STEAM or Business.
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Dans un esprit de respect, de réciprocité et de vérité, nous honorons et reconnaissons Moh’kinsstis, le territoire traditionnel du Traité 7 et les pratiques orales de la confédération des Pieds-Noirs : Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, ainsi que les nations Îyâxe Nakoda et Tsuut’ina. Nous reconnaissons que ce territoire abrite la Nation métisse de l’Alberta, la région 3 au sein de la patrie historique des Métis du Nord-Ouest. Enfin, nous reconnaissons toutes les nations qui vivent, travaillent et se divertissent sur ce territoire, et qui l’honorent et le célèbrent.
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity, and truth, we acknowledge that we live, work, and gather on the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, including the Blackfoot Confederacy—comprising the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations—as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina Nations.
This land, known as Moh’kinsstis in the Blackfoot language and encompassing what is now Districts 5 and 6, is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3, within the historical Northwest Métis homeland.
We recognize and honour the deep connection these Nations have to the land, and we are grateful for the opportunity to share in its stewardship.
As we continue our work, we commit to learning from Indigenous knowledge systems, uplifting Indigenous voices, and fostering relationships rooted in equity, understanding, and reconciliation.
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