About The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) and the Clean Electrification Junior Analyst

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. 

TAF recognizes that we can’t achieve the emission reductions needed in our buildings, transportation, or industrial sectors without access to clean, reliable, and affordable electricity. Our Accelerating Clean Electrification focus area aims to facilitate economy-wide electrification across the GTHA while ensuring that demand is met with low-carbon generation. This work is growing in 2025, as we work to build activity and confidence in distributed energy, efficiency, conservation, and renewable generation, enabled by a modern electricity system and regulatory regime. 

In this Junior Analyst role, you’ll help identify barriers to distributed energy adoption, develop tools for residential solar and storage, and support research on grid readiness and non-wires solutions—all while collaborating with experts across TAF’s teams.

Project Opportunities:

Research & Analysis

• Explore and develop a technical brief of the municipal and provincial barriers inhibiting DER adoption, with a focus on distributed solar and storage, across all market segments in the GTHA. 

• Develop tools, frameworks, and communications in support of TAF’s upcoming residential solar and storage program. 

• Support the development of a primer to address grid readiness concerns related to municipal policies and electrification efforts, including desk research and synthesizing technical information. 

• Support the assessment of granting and investment opportunities to scale non-wires solutions in the GTHA, including research of best practices and models from other jurisdictions. 

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 science or engineering-focused program and have a demonstrated interest in sustainability, urban climate solutions, and clean energy.  

• Strong analytical skills and experience in qualitative and quantitative research. 

• Familiarity with energy systems and markets, and utility rate structures is an asset. 

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.  

• Good interpersonal skills and ability to work with other team members, actively participating in staff meetings and groups.  

• Good writing skills with an ability to summarize key findings concisely.   

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced work environment.  

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.