Social Impact Specialist (Bilingual)

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

The Social Impact Specialist drives Intact's presence and influence within the community-level ecosystem to foster climate adaptation — building durable relationships with municipalities, Indigenous communities, associations, and local enablers that shape resilience on the ground across Canada.

By expanding Intact's voice among adaptation enablers, amplifying flagship partnerships, and building capacity for climate resilience at the community level, this role reinforces Intact's reputation and brand as an industry leader in building resilient, thriving communities — while creating employee engagement opportunities that connect Intact's people to that mission.

This is a role for someone who leads with cultural and political sensitivity about local realities, builds trust with community stakeholders, and facilitates how communities across Canada adapt and thrive.

• Develop meaningful, year-round engagement with community stakeholders to advance climate resilience.

• Advance community capacity-building initiatives for adaptation scale-up in collaboration with IFC teams/business units and partners.

• Expand and lead relationships with key adaptation enablers at the community level.

• Support flagship partnerships (Intact Centre on Climate Adaptation, Nature Conservancy of Canada) to amplify impact and reach.

• Activate Intact's presence at key conferences and events, ensuring thought leadership and brand alignment.

• Build relationships with peers and stakeholders to increase Intact's voice and contribution on community resilience, collaborating with Communications to amplify reach.

• Source, create and/or activate employee engagement opportunities connected to community resilience work.

• Contribute to climate adaptation strategy, including partnerships development and planning.

• Administer the CRM platform to pool intelligence and inform stakeholder management across business units.

• Monitor regional realities, dynamics, and engagement best practices.

• Relationship-building and stakeholder trust: Naturally able to establish authentic connections and build credibility with diverse stakeholder groups through strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Adaptability and external representation: Comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving environments, while confidently representing the organization with external partners, clients, and senior audiences.
• Creative and innovative activation development: Demonstrated ability to design compelling, memorable engagement opportunities that bring conferences, events, and strategic partnerships to life while advancing organizational objectives.
• Cross-functional collaboration and consensus-building: Proven ability to work effectively within a matrixed organization, align diverse business units, and build commitment among senior stakeholders.
• Political acumen and diplomatic judgment: Skilled at understanding organizational dynamics, managing sensitivities, and navigating complex situations with tact, discretion, and sound judgment.
• Ownership and execution: Demonstrated track record of taking accountability for outcomes, driving initiatives from concept through delivery, and ensuring commitments are met with quality and consistency.

• Bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking and French-speaking colleagues across the country.
• Post Secondary education in a relevant field such as community development, sustainability, social sciences or public policy.
• Minimum 8 years experience engaging in stakeholder management, community engagement and build trust across diverse regional contexts – is required.

• Ability to travel nationally about 15% of the year – is required.
• Understanding of climate adaptation issues and the municipal/community stakeholder landscape in Canada, ideally with some experience engaging with Indigenous communities.
  

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We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

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Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.