Project Officer, Capacity Development - Financing Adaptation

Who we are at GMF

At the Green Municipal Fund (GMF), we create change where it matters most—in Canada’s municipalities. As the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ flagship program and backed by a $2.4 billion endowment from the Government of Canada, GMF helps Canadian municipalities, big and small, invest in their future by supporting homegrown sustainability and resilience projects that work for Canadians by creating jobs, lowering costs, and strengthening local economies.

Through our unique mix of funding, resources and training, GMF is enhancing the quality of life for people in Canada by accelerating a transformation to sustainable and resilient communities. Since 2000, GMF has invested over $1.6 billion in local projects helping communities avoid 2.9 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, while also contributing $1.24 billion to the national GDP and creating more than 13,000 person-years of national employment.

The Project Officer (PO), Capacity Development, Financing Adaptation provides project oversight, coordination, and logistical support to knowledge and skills development programming to help Canadian municipalities build the capacity to finance infrastructure and projects that reduce climate risk. This is a new and evolving area of work, sitting at the intersection of municipal climate resilience, sustainable finance, and market development. The Project Officer supports delivery of the Financing Adaptation stream of the Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation (LLCA) program, which helps municipalities and their partners develop viable pathways to finance climate adaptation projects and attract greater investment into resilient infrastructure.

This includes supporting municipalities to better understand investor needs, investment options, repayment mechanisms, risk-return considerations, partnership structures, and other factors that shape whether projects are considered, leading to improved municipal readiness to pursue financing. The primary role of the Project Officer will be to oversee the design, logistics and delivery of a spectrum of capacity development supports to meet municipalities where they are and help them move forward.

This includes building awareness of what is possible, connecting municipalities with peers, experts and financing partners, deepening knowledge and skills through practical tools and training, and providing technical coaching and guidance that strengthen project readiness, financing models, and decision‑making.

Through municipal‑ and partner‑oriented events (both online and in person), learning activities, webinars, knowledge products, toolkits, communities of practice, peer networks, case studies, and other knowledge resources, this role will help build capacity that supports municipalities moving from early ideas to financing readiness, implementation, and replication. The Project Officer also assists with the integration and coordination of knowledge management, exchange, and mobilization as well as impact reporting across other units of GMF and the FCM.

As part of a newly established team in an emerging space, the Project Officer will help shape the team's ways of working. The role calls for comfort working in an evolving, innovation‑oriented environment where priorities and activities stay nimble to adapt to municipalities' emerging needs.

• Develops and delivers defined awareness raising and capacity building activities and programming (both online and in person) including webinars, workshops, training sessions, communities of practice, and peer learning cohorts, that help municipal staff, elected officials…