Energy Workforce and Skills Gap Assessment Specialist

Role Purpose

Assess current and future workforce requirements associated with changes in the energy sector, including clean energy deployment, energy efficiency, grid modernization, digitalization, and other relevant transitions. Identify skills gaps and recommend practical workforce-development measures.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the workforce, occupations, geographies, and time horizons relevant to the assessment.
• Review available employment, education, training, industry, and labor-market information.
• Identify current and emerging occupations linked to the client’s energy strategy or sector transition.
• Assess gaps in technical, digital, managerial, safety, regulatory, and project-development capabilities.
• Consult employers, workers, training institutions, professional bodies, government agencies, and other stakeholders.
• Compare employer needs with current education and training provision, where information is available.
• Identify inclusion, access, and workforce-transition considerations, including opportunities for underrepresented groups.
• Recommend priority skills, training pathways, partnerships, and workforce-planning actions.
• Develop practical indicators to track skills development, recruitment, retention, and workforce transition.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• A degree in human resources, workforce development, labor economics, education, energy policy, social science, or a related field.
• At least seven years of relevant experience in workforce planning, skills assessment, labor-market analysis, vocational education, or energy-sector research.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze occupational and skills requirements and develop practical recommendations.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, surveys, workshops, or labor-market studies.

Desirable Expertise

• Experience in the energy, utilities, renewable energy, construction, or infrastructure sectors.
• Familiarity with occupational standards, technical and vocational education and training, apprenticeship systems, or professional certification.
• Experience with gender-responsive workforce analysis and just-transition considerations.
• Skills in quantitative labor-market analysis, survey design, or employment forecasting.

Typical Outputs

• Workforce and occupational baseline.
• Current and projected skills-needs analysis.
• Skills-gap and training-provision assessment.
• Stakeholder consultation findings.
• Workforce-development recommendations and implementation roadmap.

Terms of Appointment

The Specialist will be appointed on a fixed-term contract. Renewal may be considered, subject to satisfactory performance.

Compensation

Compensation will reflect factors such as qualifications, relevant education and experience, skills, seniority, performance, and organizational needs. The applicable compensation scale will vary based on the Specialist’s work location.

Application Process

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as the position may close once a suitable candidate is identified. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or status as a protected veteran.

Safeguarding

Epsilon Innovation Group defines safeguarding as the preventive action taken to protect its people, clients, and the communities it works with from harm. Epsilon is committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with Epsilon Innovation Group Inc. are treated with respect and are free from abuse. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process, including safeguarding-focused interviews and rigorous due diligence.

About Epsilon Innovation Group Inc.

Epsilon Innovation Group is a consulting and research and development (R&D) based firm specializing in energy, climate change, nature-based solutions, blue economy, economic development, artificial intelligence (AI), technology innovation, policy, and risk analysis.

Epsilon Innovation Group Inc. supports organizations in assessing transition readiness and translating analysis into practical, prioritized action. Its work emphasizes evidence-informed assessment, stakeholder engagement, organizational and workforce capability, and implementation planning. In energy-sector assignments, Epsilon aims to help clients understand changing workforce needs and identify pathways to build the skills, partnerships, and systems needed for a clean-energy transition.