Team Lead, Community Climate

Clean Foundation • Dartmouth, NS

10d • $60,000 - $70,000 • Onsite

About The Position

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. Clean Foundation is looking for a Community Climate Team Lead to join their 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. This role involves supporting staff, overseeing workflows, and delivering program activities, with a focus on advancing local climate action. 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 address day-to-day challenges for your team by providing people leadership and delivery oversight. The organization is looking for someone with demonstrated experience coordinating work and supervising team members.

Requirements

• 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.
• Experience working with municipalities or within government systems, with a strong understanding of municipal structures, processes, and decision-making environments.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 aligned with 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees