Corporate Environmental Specialist

At The City of Calgary, employees thrive, courageous ideas come to life, and public service opens possibilities. If you are motivated by public service, enjoy collaborating with others, share our values and have a desire to learn and grow, join our organization. We support work-life balance, promote physical and psychological safety, and offer competitive wages, pensions, and benefits.

We are the organization that serves the third most diverse city in Canada and one of the most livable cities in the world; a workplace committed to Truth and Reconciliation and fostering employee belonging. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds. Accommodation is available during the recruitment process, upon request.

As a Corporate Environmental Specialist, you will play a key role in the coordination, alignment and integration of climate-related and environmental risk reduction outcomes into The City's corporate-wide strategy, business planning, decision-making and risk management processes. Driven by the goals and outcomes defined within the Calgary Climate Strategy: Pathways to 2050 and the Calgary Environment Strategy, you will work collaboratively across the organization to co-develop and implement corporate climate-related and environmental risk reduction systems, processes and tools, ensuring organization-wide consistency and quality control. Your work will support the corporation to better understand and reduce climate-related and environmental risks to assets, operations, and service delivery. Primary duties include:

• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to establish corporate-wide standards, assessment methodologies and quality controls to enable consistent identification, evaluation, management, monitoring, escalation and reporting of climate-related and environmental risks across the organization.
• Develop processes to enable consistent integration of climate-related and environmental risks into The City's Environmental Management System and Business Unit Risk Registers.
• Develop and integrate climate and environmental requirements into cross-corporate project management and procurement processes to support measurable risk reduction outcomes.
• Support The City's climate and environmental analytics system, dashboards, reporting and disclosures, including the Climate Implementation Plan, Climate-Related and Nature-Based Financial Disclosure, Climate & Environmental Principal Corporate Risk reporting and the Climate Progress Report.
• Build organizational awareness and capacity to implement cross-corporate climate and environmental policies, tools, guidelines and processes.
• Provide analysis, recommendations, briefing materials, business cases, reports, planning documents, and presentations to support leadership decision-making and operational improvements.

Qualifications

• A degree in climate change, environment, sustainability, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of practical experience in project or program management.
• Experience in governance, strategic planning, risk management, business planning or corporate systems development is essential.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, is essential.
• A master's degree will be considered an asset.
• Previous work experience in climate- or environmental-related risk, climate accounting, and climate data and measurement is an asset.
• The successful candidate will demonstrate abilities in critical thinking and analysis, strategic planning and leadership, collaboration and relationship-building, project management, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, customer focus, sound decision-making, political acumen, and communication.
  

Pre-employment Requirements

• Successful applicants must provide proof of qualifications.

Workstyle

• This position may be eligible to work from home for at least part of the time as one of several flexible work options available to City employees. These arrangements depend on the operational requirements of the role, employee suitability, and are subject to change based on operational needs and corporate direction.

Position and Pay Information

• Business Unit: Environmental Risk and Resilience
• Union: CUPE Local 38
• Position Type: 1 Temporary (up to 8 months)
• Compensation: Pay Grade 14 $53.52 - 71.53 per hour
• Hours of work: Standard 35 hour work week
• Days of work: This position works a 5-day work week with 1 day off in a 3 week cycle.
• Location: 205 8 Avenue SE
• Audience: Internal/External
• Apply By: November 23, 2026
• Job ID: 315633