Eco Employment Programs
We offer employment programs that stimulate environmental career pathways, skill development, business growth, workforce support and workforce advancement through wage and training funding.
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Youth in Natural Resources
The Youth in Natural Resources program helps train and fund youth (aged 15 to 30) looking to transition into or gain experience within the natural resources field.
Eligible employers can receive 75% of the candidate’s wages covered up to $20,000 or 75% up to $30,000 when hiring an Indigenous youth, a person with a disability or a person living in a remote location.
For Employers
For employers, it gives them the opportunity to onboard young professionals and create meaningful environmental jobs within the natural resources sectors (Energy, Forestry, Mining Minerals & Metals, Earth Sciences).
For Participants
The Youth in Natural Resources Program provides training and funding for young professionals to help them transition into the workforce and gain experience in the natural resources sector. The program helps them build a network of peers and mentors.
Eligibility: Youth (15-30)
Status:
Applications Are Now Closed
Student Work Placement (Co-Op)
ECO Canada’s Co-op program partners with post-secondary institutions and aims to help students find work placements within their field of study.
Eligible employers can receive 50% wage coverage up to $5,000 of a student’s salary for a placement in a new full or part-time 6 to 16 week position with a minimum of 180 hours.
For Employers
We provide 50% of a wage up to a maximum of $5,000 to eligible employers who hire the brightest minds in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math (STEAM) and Business.
For Participants
Working with institutions and employers across Canada to fund work placements for students to gain real-world experience in the environment while they are still in school.
Eligibility: Post-Secondary Student
Status:
Open
Science Horizons Youth Internship
The Science Horizons Program provides training and funding for young professionals with post-secondary education transition or gain experience in the environmental sector, focusing mainly on STEM.
Eligible employers can receive up to 80% wage coverage up to $25,000 of a candidate’s salary for placement in a new full-time 6 to 12 month position.
For Employers
For employers, it gives them the opportunity to onboard young professionals and create meaningful environmental jobs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics by removing limitations and challenges of hiring young professionals.
For Participants
The Science Horizons Program provides training and funding for young professionals with post-secondary education to help them transition into the workforce and gain experience in the environmental sector. The program helps them build a network of peers and mentors.
Eligibility: Youth (15-30)
Status:
Applications Are Now Closed
Digital Skills For Youth
The Digital Skills for Youth program provides training for young professionals with post-secondary education who want to gain experience or join the environmental digital skills sector.
Eligible employers of small to medium-sized businesses (< 500 staff) can receive 80% wage coverage up to $18,000 for a minimum 3 to 12 month full-time or part-time placement.
For Employers
Through this internship program, your business can increase the supply of highly qualified candidates and facilitate their transition to a rapidly changing labour market in the digital economy. Receive 80% up to $18,000 in funding towards a participant’s salary.
For Participants
The Digital Skills for Youth Program provides training and funding for young professionals with post-secondary education to help them transition into the workforce and gain experience in the environmental Digital Skills sector.
Eligibility: Youth (15-30)
Status:
Closed
Environmental Jobs Growth Program
For Employers
Offset the cost of hiring for new or vacant positions and applies 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.
For Participants
We offer funding for employment programs that stimulate environmental career pathways, skill development, business growth, and workforce advancement.
Eligibility: All
Status:
Open
Nature-Based Climate Solutions
For Employers
Receive up to $4,500 in funding towards a candidate’s salary. Funding will cover full-time and part-time placements that are at a minimum of 3 months long.
For Participants
Provides training and funding for workers leaving the natural resource sector and helps them move into nature-based climate solutions employment such as coastal restoration, forestry, and mining roles that relate to climate adaptation, watershed restoration, drought resiliency, and more.
Eligibility: Transitioning from Natural Resources Sector
Status:
Closed
Foreign Talent Development
For Employers
Eligible employers can receive up to $18,750 of a candidate’s salary for placement in a new or vacant full or part-time 6 to 12-month position.
For Participants
The Environmental Jobs Growth Program helps employers grow, develop and diversify their environmental talent. The program welcomes any job seeker looking to enter or advance their careers in the clean economy.
Eligibility: Newcomers
Status:
Waitlist
Environmental Employability Pathways
For Employers
Small and medium sized employers can receive 50% (up to $12,000) in funding towards a participant’s salary.
The host employer must provide a new, permanent position and the job must be environmentally-related.
For Participants
The Environmental Employability Pathway Program is an employment readiness program which aims to help all youth (age 15 to 30) to navigate through the labour market and to successfully transition into sustained employment.
Eligibility: Youth (15-30)
Status:
Open
Apprenticeship Service Program
For Employers
For employers, this program provides a financial incentive to meet the needs of small to medium-sized companies (under 500 employees). This financial incentive aids in removing limitations and challenges when hiring first-year apprentices within select Red Seal trades.
For Participants
Our Apprenticeship Service Program provides first-year apprentices in select Red Seal trades with a financial incentive to offer employers upon hiring them for their first-year apprenticeship. The program helps them stand out to prospective employers and build a network of peers and mentors.
Eligibility: 1st Year Apprentice
Status:
Open
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