About The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) and the Communications Specialist

Have you heard about TAF? We’re a regional climate agency that invests in low-carbon solutions for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and helps scale them up for broad implementation. We are experienced leaders and collaborate with stakeholders in the private, public and non-profit sectors who have ideas and opportunities for reducing carbon emissions. We advance the most promising concepts by investing, providing grants, influencing policies and running programs. 

We’re building our GTHA network and need to include more climate allies and organizations working on interconnected issues like housing, affordability, economic opportunity, and health. We use Salesforce to manage and organize our communications data, and have an integrated team approach to doing our work that means lots of relationships across the team.

In this role, you’ll work on the Communications & Campaigns team to support our growing outreach and engagement efforts, particularly to advance building retrofits in the GTHA. It’s an ideal opportunity for someone eager to gain hands-on experience in stakeholder research, contact management and campaign outreach in a dynamic organization.

Project Opportunities:

Audience Research & List building

• Strengthen TAF’s contact database by identifying key stakeholders and improving inter-team contact sharing.

• Conduct research to expand our network, identifying potential collaborators in policy, impact investing, and the building industry.

Data Management & Insights

• Generate and analyze SalesForce reports to identify gaps in contact data.

• Research and update missing contact details using LinkedIn, Google, and other tools.

• Develop and try out a process to improve contact organization and searchability.

Campaign & Event Support

• Assist in audience targeting for campaigns, events, and policy initiatives like BEPS.

• Help manage invitation lists, RSVPs, and support post-event follow-up strategies.

• Collaborate with the team to align audience segmentation with campaign messaging.

Organizationally

• Participate and contribute in staff meetings, lunch n’ learns, planning sessions, working groups and similar settings.   

Key details: 

Compensation: $28/hour plus financial support for wifi associated with work. A laptop will be provided.

Employment term:  full time (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) for approximately four months between May 1 – August 29. Flexible schedule and hours to be determined in consultation with your manager.  

Location: Hybrid, with two days a week in TAF’s Toronto office (at Union Station). We will consider fully remote work for the right candidate! 

Other perks:  

• Experience what it’s like to work in the climate sector, with a team of climate action professionals. 

• Enjoy socials, lunch n’ learns, training sessions and other staff-wide experiences. 

• Benefit from other hands-on learning and networking opportunities. 

The kind of skills and experience we're looking for:

• Currently completing (or a recent graduate) from a business, communications, marketing, policy or related program and have a demonstrated interest in sustainability and urban climate solutions.

• Interested in climate action, policy engagement, and/or stakeholder outreach

• Comfortable using tools like Microsoft Suite, Google, LinkedIn, and CRM software (experience with Salesforce is an asset)

• A strong communicator with demonstrated ability to express ideas clearly and effectively in speech and writing.

• A problem solver who is excited to optimize processes and improve data organization.

Applying to intern at TAF:

Building an inclusive community with a shared purpose is critical to our work and mandate. We are Equalx30 signatories and believe that equity, diversity, and inclusion make climate action more just and effective. We believe that teams work best when they vary in background and approach, including diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ethnicity, national origin and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different.

We understand that candidates come with different types of experience and backgrounds that might not appear to align with the requirements we’ve listed here. But if you’re excited by this posting and to intern at TAF, and think you’d be a great fit for this position, we encourage you to apply.

If you require any accommodations to fully participate in the hiring and selection process, please reach out to our People team at jobs@taf.ca.

Next steps:

Start your application by clicking on the yellow button on the top right of this page.

You’ll upload your resume (no cover letter is required), and answer two questions letting us know why you’re interested and a great candidate for the role. You don't need to do it all in one sitting; you'll get direct link and will be able to come back and edit until you click submit. After the job closes, your answers will go through our de-biased sift process: all answers will be anonymized, randomized and then scored by members of our team.

If your responses to the questions score in the top 25% of applicants, we’ll review your resume.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you join us for a short online interview. After that, a few top candidates will be invited to participate in an in-person interview at our Union Station office.

Depending on the volume and quality of applications received, we may add an additional step to our process. Whether you are successful or not, you will hear back from us once the process is complete.