Team Lead, Community Climate
About Clean Foundation
Clean Foundation helps communities prepare for the realities of a changing climate, protecting local environments and building more resilient places to live and work. Based in Nova Scotia in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, Clean delivers practical solutions to address complex environmental challenges. As a trusted partner to governments, non-profits and community organizations, we take climate priorities and help turn them into practical programs that deliver meaningful results. Our work responds to local needs, ensuring solutions are inclusive, resilient to climate change and support stronger economies regionally and across Canada.
Learn more at www.cleanfoundation.ca
What You’ll Be Doing
Are you someone with strong organizational skills who enjoys problem solving and supporting the day-to-day initiatives of a team? Clean Foundation is looking for a Community Climate Team Lead to join our organization.
As a Team Lead in the Community Climate Initiatives Department, you will provide leadership, coordination, and supervision to a team delivering hands-on climate initiatives in partnership with municipalities across Nova Scotia.
The Community Climate Initiatives team works directly with communities to build local capacity for climate action, supporting adaptation, mitigation, and resilience efforts at the municipal and regional level. This includes working alongside community partners to advance planning, delivery engagement activities, support funding applications, and implement practical, on-the-ground solutions.
As a Team Lead, you will oversee a team of Community Navigators who are embedded in this work, acting as key partners to municipalities and supporting the day-to-day delivery of community-based climate initiatives.
If you are comfortable supporting staff, overseeing workflows, and delivering program activities and are keen to advance local climate action this role may be right for you. Your support will include working closely with the Community Climate Initiatives Manager to assist with operational alignment while individually contributing directly to program delivery. You will also work hard to address day-to-day challenges for your team by providing people leadership and delivery oversight.
Job Requirements
We are looking for someone with demonstrated experience coordinating work and supervising team members.
You are a great fit if you have:
• Post-secondary education in a relevant field (e.g., public administration, environmental studies, business, sustainability) or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3–5+ years of experience in program delivery, community-based work, or a related field.
• Strong organizational and coordination skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrable understanding and application of the principles of sustainability, climate change adaptation, mitigation, and community resilience.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback, coaching, and support to team members.
• Ability to balance individual contribution with team leadership responsibilities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Experience working with municipalities or within government systems, with a strong understanding of municipal structures, processes, and decision making environments.
Job Responsibilities
In this role you will act as the Team Supervisor overseeing team workflows, supporting
staff performance and development, and addressing day-to-day delivery challenges.
You will be responsible for the following:
• Provide coaching, feedback, and support to team members to strengthen
performance and capability.
• Support onboarding and training of new staff.
• Foster a positive, accountable and collaborative team environment
• Translate program plans and direction from the Manager into actionable tasks and day-to-day delivery for the team.
• Coordinate team activities to ensure work is progressing effectively and alignedwith timelines and priorities.
• Monitor team workload, capacity, and task distribution to ensure efficient and sustainable delivery.
• Track progress of deliverables to ensure quality, consistency and completeness.
• Address day-to-day delivery issues and escalate more complex concerns to the Manager as required.
• Provide updates to the Manager on team activities, progress, risks, and emerging issues.
• Escalate risks, capacity issues, or delivery concerns to the Manager with context and recommendations.
• Hands on delivery program activities, including community engagement, meetings, workshops, or program-related activities as required.
• Apply practical, on-the-ground insights to continuously improve program effectiveness.
• Maintain effective working relationships with municipalities, partners and stakeholders.
• Represent the organization professionally in external interactions.
• Support tracking, documentation and reporting of team activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows, tools, and team coordination.
Other duties as assigned
Job Benefits
$60,000-$70,000
A successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on various factors
such as skills, experience, training, and credentials, as well as other business purposes
or needs.
Perks & Benefits
• Fully covered health and dental insurance plan and 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program
• RRSP employer matching
• Paid vacation and wellness days
• You get your birthday off
• Paid volunteer hours
• Halifax public transit subsidy
Employment Equity
Clean is committed to Employment Equity, and our goal is to have a diverse workforce
that is representative at all job levels. Qualified self-identifying First Nations, Metis and
Inuit, Visible Minority Groups, Persons with Disabilities and LGBTQ2+ applicants will be
strongly considered for this position. If you are a member of one of the equity groups,
you are encouraged to self-identify on your application.
All self-identification data is confidential and stored privately