Regional Manager, Environmental Impact - Ontario

Royal Bank of Canada>; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Bank of Canada is seeking a Regional Manager, Environmental Impact in Ontario. This role involves advancing community investment strategies and managing partnerships to support the bank's environmental initiatives. The successful candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders, ensuring impactful community investments while promoting RBC's brand and mission towards a net-zero economy.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Competitive compensation

Opportunities for professional development

Work with a dedicated team committed to net-zero goals

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in environmental not-for-profit or philanthropic sector.
• Understanding of community-led climate mitigation and established network.
• Strong presentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Execute RBC’s environmental impact strategy and manage partnership pipeline.
• Lead relationship management for partnerships and support Regional Directors.
• Ensure impactful regional community investments aligned with net-zero goals.

Skills

Climate Change Mitigation

Climate Resilience

Community Investment

Nature Based Solutions

Oral Presentation

Philanthropy

Relationship Management

Stakeholder Collaboration

Written Presentation

Education

Post-secondary degree or diploma in a related field

Job description

The Regional Manager, Environmental Impact (Ontario) is responsible for advancing RBC’s environmental impact community investment strategy at a local and regional level across Ontario in support of the goals and objectives outlined in RBC’ Community Investment Strategy and more broadly the RBC Purpose Framework.

Working with the Director, Regional Environmental Impact, and collaboratively within and across teams in support of the Region, this role will support partnership development and activation, promote strong and responsive relationships between RBC and the communities it serves, while strengthening RBC’s brand positioning across multiple audiences.

This position will support community investments across several regional offices within Ontario. This role is ideally located in Ottawa; however we encourage applicants from Southwestern Ontario (Burlington office) and GTA (Toronto office) to apply.

What will you do?

Portfolio and Partnership Development and Management

Execute on RBC’s environmental impact strategy and drive partnership pipeline to ensure we are actively managing relationships with our partners and responding to incoming requests for support.

Lead relationship manager for suite of partnerships as well as support Regional Directors, Marketing and Citizenship on building and stewarding larger partnerships, ensuring organizations have a best-in-class experience.

Ensure effective and impactful regional community investments strongly aligned with RBC’s ambition to support the transition to a net zero economy.

Ensure all donations align to the Global Community Investment Policy and are responded to within the 90-day SLA as defined by the Enterprise Environmental Impact team.

Practice strong due diligence on all community investment partnerships to ensure minimal exposure to brand reputation risk for RBC and the partner.

Build subject matter knowledge and relationships across the environmental and philanthropic sector in the region in order to enhance program delivery and credibility.

Partnership Activation and Brand Attribution

Collaborate with regional and national teams to activate appropriate environmental partnerships and high impact programs at the local market level, to help drive brand attribution and environmental impact storytelling in the region.

Represent RBC externally, as directed, at regional partner events and other regional community activations under the net-zero economy ambition area.

Support regional management on identification, execution and promotion of employee engagement and learning activities associated with environmental impact community partnerships.

Financial Management and Reporting

In consultation with the Director and relevant Regional Director(s), Marketing and Citizenship, help manage the regional community investment budget, ensuring sound planning and execution, and optimizing resources through cross-team synergies and points of integration.

Work with Director to ensure all reporting is up to date and Smart Simple SLA is met.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

Post-secondary degree or diploma in a related field and / or 3+ years of experience, ideally gained in the environmental not-for-profit and / or philanthropic sector.

Understanding of regional community-led climate mitigation and / or nature-based solutions, ideally with an established network of contacts.

High emotional intelligence as it relates to partnership management.

Self-starter with ability to manage multiple projects and work collaboratively across a diverse network of partners, both inside and outside of the bank.

Strong presentation, public speaking and written skills, and ability to communicate project, program plans and community investment impact across stakeholder groups internally and externally.

Nice-to-have

Experience working with corporate-charitable partnerships and related internal and external storytelling and activation opportunities.

Confidence working with senior leaders.

Ability to communicate in French.

What’s in it for you?

You will have the opportunity to work alongside a dedicated team of colleagues who are committed to supporting the transition to a net-zero economy and working with not-for-profit and charitable partners towards this goal.

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper.

We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual. Powering Ideas for People and Planet is the core of what we do.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation.

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

Opportunities to do challenging work.

Work Type : On-site 4-days / week, option for one-day remote

Location : ONE Regional Office (90 Sparks Street, Ottawa) or SWO Regional Office (3405 Harvester Road, Burlington) or Toronto (181 Bay Street)

Job Skills

Climate Change Mitigation, Climate Resilience, Community Investment, Nature Based Solutions, Oral Presentation, Philanthropy, Relationship Management, Stakeholder Collaboration, Work Collaboratively, Written Presentation

Additional Job Details

Address :

90 SPARKS ST : OTTAWA

City : OTTAWA

Country : Canada

Work hours / week : 37.5

Employment Type : Full time

Platform :

HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC

Job Type : Regular

Posted Date : 2025-06-09

Application Deadline :

2025-06-24

Note : Applications will be accepted until 11 : 59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

I nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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