Workforce Partnerships grants

Alberta Food Processors Association

A first time (since 2005) labour market intelligence study and workforce plan focused specifically on Alberta’s food and beverage manufacturing sector. The study will also include strategies for the attraction, retention and talent development of skilled and semi-skilled workers.

Alberta Information and Communications Technology Council

Technology Alberta will secure approximately: an additional 100 Part-time positions at 100 Alberta Tech SME’s for an additional 100 Alberta job seekers, with the intent to, over time, have some of these jobs become permanent.

Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii)

AI Week will connect tech talent with hiring companies and promote AI and Machine Learning as careers of choice.

Energy Safety Canada c/o PetroLMI Division

PetroLMI will work to expand the labour supply pool for entry-level jobs through: Research - labour demand and supply research which will identify regions where there is high labour demand and areas where labour supply can be accessed; Marketing - campaign aimed at increasing awareness of the sector within Alberta’s immigrant communities and Employment Connections - bringing together hiring companies and job-seekers through virtual industry awareness information sessions and in-person and/or virtual targeted hiring events.

PolicyWise for Children and Families

This project will endeavour to understand factors related to systemic labour issues in the Food and Beverage sector, how the impacts of COVID have affected sector labour issues, and what practices are needed to create resilient workplaces and workforces for the future with a specific focus on newcomer youth. The findings from this project will ideally be replicable across other segments of the tourism sector.

ROA Gateways Corp. (Regional Oil Sands Alliance)

Maintenance and labour analysis will quantify the demand across Members in Alberta’s Oil Sands then work with Industry partners to analyze supply against critical trades. Once a concrete picture of supply and demand are understood, will identify critical gaps and strategies to address.

Women in Communications and Technology

Women in Communications and Technology’s workforce accelerator program will provide reverse mentoring and leadership development, within tech companies, for women in tech to champion the growth and development of inclusive workplaces in Alberta.

Alberta Biotechnology Association o/a BioAlberta

A first time labour market intelligence study focused specifically on Alberta’s pharmaceutical and life sciences sector.

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Talent Development Task Force project will align post-secondary programming and labour market needs to propel economic recovery.

Alberta Construction Association

This Regional Workforce Retention pilot will address the shortage of skilled workers in smaller centres in Alberta’s construction industry by piloting regional worker exchanges to retain skilled workers facing unemployment due to the project based nature of construction. The pilot will begin in Medicine Hat and Grande Prairie followed by Fort McMurray, Lethbridge, Lloydminster and Red Deer.

Alberta Motor Transport Association

Beyond Licencing: Pathways to Commercial Truck Driving for Inexperienced Drivers addresses labour market challenges in the industry by raising awareness about employment opportunities in trucking. The project will identify pathways to employers willing to hire newly-licensed, inexperienced truck drivers and offer employers tools to hire new drivers.

ARETE Safety and Protection Inc.

A Restriction Exemption Program (REP) Training Grant that provides safety training to Alberta employers and employees who are implementing REP, or other COVID-19 safety requirements.

Calgary Economic Development

Alberta’s Screen-based Production Sector Labour Market Study – Calgary Economic Development and Edmonton Screen Industries Office will conduct a Labour Market Scan of Alberta's film industry, and, based on the results of the research, develop a Workforce Action Plan to grow the film industry's workforce.

Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF)

Return on Training Investment (ROTI) calculates the return on training investment for Alberta employers who invest in apprenticeship for three in-demand trades. This project will assess actual costs and quantify the associated benefits and impacts from an employer perspective.

Canadian Association of Geophysical Contractors (CAGC)

This Seismic Sector Labour Market Research study identifies the sector's critical human resource issues, provides a complete understanding of recruitment and retention issues, and assesses effective strategies to support recruitment and retention. The study will also examine current workforce demand as well as training and/or re-training issues.

CEPA Foundation

The Development of Resources for Environmental Inspection develops an occupation profile and career roadmap for environmental construction inspection.

Edmonton Flying Club

This Pilot Pipeline Project will create a pipeline of career-ready pilots to meet the hiring needs of partners.

Edmonton Metropolitan Region Economic Development Company o/a Edmonton Global

A Hydrogen Labour Market Research Project that maps the current state capacity and capability of the potential hydrogen labour market in Alberta, explores optimal future state, and determines the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for workers and organizations to address gaps, leverage opportunities, and effectively transition into the new hydrogen economy.

Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC)

This project will develop an online Peer Learning Hub that brings together human resource practitioners to build industry and employer capacity to increase and enhance workforce participation of newcomers, youth, Indigenous peoples, women, mature workers, and people living with a disability.

Elevate Aviation Ltd.

The Virtual Reality Career Insight Project addresses industry labour market needs by taking commonly recognized careers and demonstrating how they can be reimagined as careers inside the aviation industry.

Energy Safety Canada o/a PetroLMI

Diversity and Inclusion in the Energy Workforce is a project that supports employer efforts to expand the composition and numbers of their workforce through attraction and retention initiatives with the focus on diversity and inclusion.

Environmental Careers Organization of Canada

Advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Alberta’s Growing Environmental Workforce will produce, disseminate, and encourage the use of demographic data to help diversify Alberta's environmental workforce by developing information resources. Resources include baseline or benchmarking data, best practices and employer listings.

Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) of Canada Inc.

The Driving Innovation and Growth in Rural Alberta study will assist in understanding emerging labour market and skill needs in rural Alberta, driven by increasing digitization across industries.

Retail Council of Canada

A Retail Labour Market Study that answers questions related to labour market supply and demand, labour and skills gaps, successful worker attraction and retention approaches and workforce planning to ensure the labour market can sustain the industry going forward.

Supply Chain Management Association

Supply Chain Trends: Adopting Digitization and Its Impact on Skills will research and analyze labour market trends within the Alberta supply chain sector and its value chains as they relate to three key economic sectors: energy and cleantech, aviation and logistics, and agriculture. The project will also promote and heighten awareness of current labour market needs

Western Retail Lumber Association (WRLA)

A first time labour market intelligence study focused on Alberta’s retail forest products/building construction/supply subsector. The project will also identify skills gaps to attract diverse labour pools into the industry, thereby supporting small communities across Alberta.

Wood Manufacturing Council

Wood Industry Career Awareness Campaign for Newcomers/Equity Groups will coordinate with Alberta woodworking industry stakeholders to prepare, develop and undertake an initial implementation of a career awareness campaign to attract workforce participation of target groups, including newcomers, Indigenous people, youth, women and mature workers.

Alberta Information and Communications Technology Council

The Technology Alberta FIRST (First Industry Research, Science, Technology companies) Job Program will secure an additional 100 part-time positions at 100 Alberta small to medium technology enterprises for job seekers who are currently unemployed or under-employed. The intent is to have some of these jobs become permanent over time, and help Alberta small to medium technology enterprises grow.

Alberta Recreation and Parks Association

COVID-19 Labour Implications for the Alberta Parks and Recreation Industry will capture the short and long-term implications of COVID-19 on the recreation and parks labour force including layoffs, rehires, and redeployment measures. It will include case studies showcasing strategies and techniques utilized by organizations to revitalize their workforce.

Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation

Supply chain and logistics diversity and inclusion – multi-day employer workshops, career day, networking between job seekers and employers; followed up with in-depth corporate diversity and inclusion sessions.

Chic Geek

Chic Geek is developing an online human resources tool to support mid-career women in technology to remain in the industry. The project will also position women to move into senior roles by providing connections to micro-mentoring, which will provide more visibility to career paths and advancement.

Connect Partnerships Group Ltd.

Project will deliver a series of 3 virtual workshop days focusing on increasing the skills of Alberta employers to hire and retain an Indigenous workforce. Workshops will be followed by a round table that will educate Indigenous communities and agencies emerging employment trends to guide future training.

Electricity Human Resources Canada

Project 1

Workforce Transitions: Tourism to Electricity has 2 national sector councils collaborating to develop an Alberta focused career exploration resource that will help the unemployed tourism workforce to identify career paths and required skills to work in the electricity sector.

Project 2

Project will support the transition of graduating students from colleges and universities into opportunities in Alberta’s electricity sector by raising awareness of jobs in Alberta’s electricity and renewable energy industries.

Elevate Aviation

Diversity in Aviation – COVID-19 Workforce Recovery Plan is focusing on a COVID-19 workforce recovery action plan to prepare for future employment opportunities in order to meet industry’s recruitment needs. It will also focus on increasing the workforce participation of women and Indigenous people.

Environmental Careers Organization Canada (ECO Canada)

Project 1

Project will solidify an energy efficiency for building sector workforce strategy for Alberta, grow the sector's labour pool and develop, pilot and disseminate a talent attraction and management toolkit of best practices, resources and supports explicitly curated for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) within Alberta's building sector.

Project 2

Advancing Green Jobs and Supporting Workforce Resiliency in Alberta will result in an Alberta-focused report that highlights occupational employment estimates and hiring forecasts for roles in natural resource management, and environmental goods and services sector. It will also include a green talent strategy for Alberta, highlighting workforce attraction, retention and development considerations.

Indigenous Tourism Alberta

Indigenous Tourism Alberta is undertaking a labour market study specific to Alberta Indigenous tourism. Due to COVID-19, the need for this type of data has increased – specifically around understanding the barriers, opportunities and trends in order to develop strategies to grow the Indigenous tourism workforce.

Information and Communications Technology Council

Project 1

Resilient Digital-Led Diversification for a Post-COVID Alberta will research COVID-19’s impact on the overall digital economy to provide a detailed understanding of upcoming in-demand jobs, skill needs and training pathways, and opportunities for investment attraction via digitization and diversification.

Project 2

Job matching, online career fair, placement and retention, selection and recruitment tools and workshops.

Next Gen Men

Gender Diversity in the Tech Industry; focusing on men (from C suite down) to become stakeholders/advocates in gender equality, thereby increasing overall attraction and retention of woman.

Organic Alberta in partnership with Young Agrarians

Growing a Workforce for Farming in Alberta will increase the number of skilled individuals in the agriculture workforce, either as employees for existing companies or as entrepreneurs launching their own agri-business.

PetroLMI

Project 1

PetroLMI is undertaking a project to identify employment opportunities in well closure and reclamation, and profile the key occupations, skills and aptitudes required. The project will also include a supply and demand analysis to ensure we have the workforce needed to complete this work before Federal funding commitment deadlines.

Project 2

Project will provide renewed attraction and awareness of available occupations within Alberta’s oil and gas services subsector. This will re-attract experienced workers and attract new workers into the sector.

Supply Chain Management Association o/a Supply Chain Canada

HR tools to improve recruitment, benchmark employees, gain competencies, internal career advancement, identify skills gaps to create learning paths for development and retention.

Trucking HR Canada

Commercial Truck Driver: Labour Market Information Project will assess the state of the trucking and logistics labour market in Alberta and identify occupations with labour shortages. It will also identify solutions to mitigate the threat of future labour shortages, and create a labour market information database.

Labour Market Information for Truck Transportation in Alberta’s Forestry Sector will assess the factors that impact the labour market for these workers and examine the patterns and trends of employment, unemployment, and vacancies in this specialized workforce. It aims to identify key points of cooperation and collaboration with the broader transport truck driver labour market to support more stable employment opportunities for these workers and encouraging new entrants to the occupation.

Women in Communications and Technology

The Talent Advancement Program will share HR best practices among Alberta technology, including tools to support and expand gender diversity.