ECO Employment Programs
Environmental Jobs Growth Program
Program Status: Open to Employers & Participants
Applications are now open for employers and participants. Please visit the links below to apply via Survey Monkey.
Open to all newcomers into the environmental industry, with no age or background restrictions
About the Environmental Jobs Growth Program
Our Environmental Jobs Growth Program helps develop and diversify Canada’s environmental workforce across all industries. The program helps employers offset the cost of hiring for new or vacant positions and can apply to candidates of any working age, educational background, and experience level. This program also provides assistance in onboarding and developing talent to help accelerate clean economic growth.
Unemployed and underemployed Canadians, especially those from equity-seeking groups, will benefit from gaining or transitioning into meaningful careers while building a network of peers and mentors.
Funding for this initiative caters to all environmental employers and roles within traditional and emerging industries, including the Battery Supply Chain and Climate Adaptation and Mitigation sectors.
We offer funding for employment programs that stimulate environmental career pathways, skill development, business growth, and workforce advancement.
How Does the Environmental Jobs Growth Program Work?
1. Apply Online
Fill out our eligibility assessment and application.
2. Get Approved
Candidates and employers will be informed by email once they are pre-qualified to participate in the program.
3. Recruitment
Candidates and Employers are required to find their own placement, ECO Canada can offer helpful resources such as the Job Board (where hosts can post a job and candidates can submit their resume).
4. Sign Contracts
Funding is secured once a match is confirmed between the employer and a pre-approved candidate and contract agreements have been signed and returned to us within 15 days of being issued.
5. Secure Funding
This program offers eligible employers 50% wage coverage up to $15,000 of a candidate’s salary for placements in a new full-time or part-time position of 6 to 12 months, or $18,750 when hiring a self-identified equity deserving candidate. Equity deserving groups include Women, Indigenous people, Newcomers to Canada, Persons with disabilities, Visible minorities, and 2SLGBTQIA. Both the employer and candidate must fill out reports throughout the placement for the employer to receive the wage subsidy.
Eligible employers receive up to $18,750 in wage funding
Breakdown for Participants
- This program has no age restriction for applicants.
- Job seekers from all experience levels are welcome to apply.
- Funding for this program caters to all environmental careers, whether direct or indirect.
- You do not need to have prior environmental experience to apply.
Breakdown for Employers
- Receive 50% up to $15,000 in funding towards a candidate's salary or $18,750 when hiring a self-identified equity-deserving candidate.
- For-profit and not-for-profit organizations, municipalities, provincial and territorial governments, institutions, agencies and Crown Corporations, and Indigenous organizations are eligible to apply.
- The host employer must provide a new, full-time or part-time positions.
- Funding will cover placements that are 6 to 12 months long.
About ECO Canada
As the steward for the Canadian Environmental workforce across all industries, ECO Canada offers employment programs that stimulate environmental career pathways, skill development, business growth, workforce support and workforce advancement through wage and training funding.
To date, we have distributed over $176M in wage and training subsidies and helped to fill 16,775 job placements!
