Senior Advisor, Sustainability at EPCOR… · Edmonton

Description

Highlights of the job

We are hiring a permanent full-time Senior Advisor, Sustainability position working out of the EPCOR Tower in Edmonton.

The Senior Advisor, Sustainability & Planning is accountable for enabling the effective execution and continuous evolution of EPCOR’s sustainability and business strategy, commitments, and related management systems in support of the Associate Director, Sustainability. The role serves as a strategic and operational partner to the function, contributing insight and recommendations to strategy development while translating direction into coordinated plans, measurable deliverables, disciplined reporting processes, and effective cross-functional execution. This includes leading and / or working with others to coordinate enterprise-wide annual planning cycles, coordinating a three-year sustainability reporting cadence, managing priority initiatives, maintaining performance scorecards and governance processes, and implementing the systems, structure, and controls required to deliver measurable sustainability outcomes and demonstrated business impact.

The role supports integrated planning, reporting, governance, strategic prioritization, and enterprise coordination processes that strengthen decision-making and execution across Sustainability & Public Affairs and EPCOR priorities. This role also provides leadership continuity and delegated decision support for the Associate Director, Sustainability, as required.

What you’d be responsible for

In the role of Senior Advisor, Sustainability , you are accountable to the Associate Director, Sustainability and will have the following key accountabilities (but are not limited to these):

• Provide strategic input to sustainability strategy, priorities, plans, and directions, through analysis of internal performance, external trends, stakeholder expectations, risks, and benchmarking insight, and support the ongoing evolution of EPCOR’s sustainability and corporate strategy.
• Support the Associate Director in translating enterprise priorities into annual business plans, quarterly objectives, accountabilities, and measurable deliverables, ensuring alignment to approved direction.
• Contribute to the ongoing refinement of EPCOR’s sustainability strategy by identifying emerging risks, opportunities, competitive insights, and practical actions that enhance business value, resilience, and sustainability performance.
• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution management processes required to advance EPCOR’s sustainability strategy, ensuring initiatives are appropriately prioritized, sequenced, resourced, monitored, and delivered on schedule.
• Develop, build, maintain and continuously improve an aligned and efficient sustainability and business planning approach, which includes scorecards, KPIs, dashboards, trackers, reports, calendars, and plans.
• Establish and manage governance cadence for the function, including quarterly reviews, leadership updates, planning checkpoints, agendas, action logs, follow-up tracking, and decision-support materials that improve accountability and execution discipline.
• Support cross-functional collaboration across business units to secure inputs, align responsibilities, and support delivery of sustainability commitments and enterprise priorities.
• Identify and implement systems, tools, templates, and workflow improvements that increase efficiency, strengthen prioritization, reduce manual effort, enhance data quality, and improve execution discipline across the sustainability function, related Public Affairs activities and organizational business planning.
• Monitor emerging sustainability trends, disclosure requirements, peer performance, policy developments, and stakeholder expectations, and provide practical recommendations that strengthen strategy implementation, reporting readiness, and EPCOR’s external competitiveness.
• Provide executive-level planning, advice and decision support, including high-quality presentations, briefing notes, option analysis, stakeholder materials, strategic stakeholder and issues advice and decision-support analysis for leadership and governance forums as required.
• Provide planning, reporting, coordination, and execution support to broader Sustainability & Public Affairs priorities, including stakeholder engagement plans, strategic initiatives, issues tracking, and executive reporting, assigned.
• Act on behalf of the Associate Director, Sustainability, as delegated, including representing the function in internal forums, leading assigned priorities, providing continuity of leadership during absences, and supporting smooth transitions during leave periods.
• Support budget planning, forecasting, vendor management, and oversight of third-party services, consulting support, and operating expenditures associated with the sustainability function.
• Maintain and enhance management processes that improve organization, accountability, prioritization, reporting efficiency, and the overall effectiveness and scalability of the Sustainability & Public Affairs function.
• Demonstrate a high performance, high discipline, safe, accountable, focused, innovative and achievement-oriented, easy to do business with manner of working.

What’s required to be successful

Qualifications, experience and behaviours you possess are:

• Undergraduate degree from a recognized post-secondary institution in Business, Sustainability, Environmental Studies, Finance, Economics, Communications, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Post-graduate education is considered an asset (MBA, Master’s degree, or relevant professional designation).
• 5-10 years of progressively responsible experience in sustainability, strategy, corporate planning, public affairs, performance management, consulting, or related business functions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting senior leaders in a complex, matrixed organization with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and firm deadlines.
• Experience in regulated utilities, infrastructure, public sector, or capital-intensive industries considered an asset.
• Experience with sustainability disclosure frameworks and evolving reporting requirements considered an asset.
• Advanced project and program management capability, including managing multiple concurrent initiatives with disciplined follow-through.
• Strong ability to translate strategic direction into executable plans, milestones, accountabilities, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical capability with experience developing KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting.
• Strong business writing skills, including briefing notes, presentations, Board materials, and decision-support documents.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, and business case support.
• Ability to assess trends, risks, stakeholder expectations, and external developments, and convert them into practical recommendations.
• Strong systems orientation, including ability to improve processes, workflows, controls, and reporting efficiency.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint; experience with reporting and visualization tools considered an asset.

The successful candidate brings a mindset of continuous improvement, learning, and purpose‑driven decision‑making, seeking feedback, solving problems with a structured approach, and adapting to evolving sustainability priorities and organizational needs. With humility and a commitment to belonging, they value the strengths of others, foster an inclusive environment, and help create the systems, controls, and governance needed to deliver measurable sustainability outcomes. They pursue results with discipline and tenacity, ensuring EPCOR’s sustainability commitments, planning cycles, and reporting cadence are executed with integrity while upholding the highest standards of safety and sustainability across all work.

Other important facts about this job

Jurisdiction: PROF

Class: Professional

Please note the following information:

• A requirement of working for EPCOR is that you are at least 18 years of age, successfully attained a high school diploma (GED, or equivalent level of secondary education) and legally entitled to work in Canada. (A copy of a valid work permit is required.)
• If you are considered for the position, clearance on all applicable background checks (which may include criminal, identity, educational, and/or credit) and professional reference checks is required. Some EPCOR positions require an enhanced level of background assessment, which is dictated by law. These positions require advanced criminal record checks that must also be conducted from time to time after commencement of employment.
• A technical/practical assessment may be administered during the selection process, and this exercise will be used as a part of the selection criterion.
• To meet the physical demands required of some positions, candidates must be in good physical condition and willing to work in all weather conditions. Clearance on pre-placement medical and drug and alcohol testing may be required.
• Prior infractions for unsafe driving behaviours will be evaluated and considered for non-selection regardless of current demerits on file.
• If you are required to provide your own personal reliable vehicle - Successful applicants must provide their own vehicles with appropriate insurance in accordance with EPCOR’s Employee Mileage Reimbursement Policy. You will be reimbursed in accordance with EPCOR’s Employee Mileage Reimbursement Policy.
• The results of this competition may be used to fill similar vacant positions for up to six (6) months.