Consultant – Infrastructure Funding and Compliance Specialist

At Stantec, we design with community in mind. We bring together engineering, environmental sciences, architecture, and consulting to solve complex infrastructure challenges and improve quality of life around the world. We approach infrastructure as an interconnected system—shaped by policy, funding, technology, and people.

Your Opportunity 

This role is a client-facing consulting position within Stantec’s Management & Technology Consulting (MTC) group. As a Consultant, you will support and deliver consulting engagements focused on infrastructure capital planning, funding, policy, and compliance for public- and private sector clients across North America.

You will work as an integral member of multi-disciplinary project teams, applying analytical, organizational, and communication skills to help communities plan, fund, and deliver needed infrastructure investments. This role emphasizes critical thinking, quantitative and financial analysis, clear written communication and visualization, and client collaboration, with guidance from senior consultants and project managers.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery & Client Support

• Contribute to consulting engagements addressing infrastructure funding, capital planning, policy analysis, and compliance for local governments and utilities.
• Analyze complex financial, policy, and organizational challenges related to capital improvement planning, funding strategies, and infrastructure delivery.
• Support client workshops, meetings, and working sessions through data analysis, development of materials, and facilitation support.
• Prepare high-quality, publicly facing deliverables including memoranda, written reports, technical analyses, and presentations.

Capital Planning & Funding Support

• Participate and lead Stantec’s North America Funding Program initiatives, including research and policy analysis of federal, state, and local funding programs.
• Assist with development of grant and loan applications of frameworks that align client capital improvement program needs with funding opportunities.
• Undertake policy and funding impact analysis related to infrastructure investment decisions.
• Perform compliance activities to support clients in management of governmental grants and loans, including grant award review, reporting, and grant agency coordination.

Analytical & Technical Contributions

• Acquire, clean, analyze, and interpret large and complex datasets to support financial, policy, and capital planning analyses.
• Develop quantitative models and scenario analyses using Microsoft Excel and related tools.
• Apply structured problem-solving approaches to synthesize data, assumptions, and stakeholder input into actionable insights.

Team Collaboration & Professional Development

• Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed, multi-disciplinary teams. Focus will be on client on the East Coast, including the Southeast.
• Meet assigned goals related to quality, schedule, client service, and professional development.
• Participate in required training and knowledge-sharing activities within the MTC group.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Knowledge of and experience with infrastructure projects, policy analysis, funding programs and financial analysis.
• Direct work experience/history with government agencies, including local, state, or federal entities and utilities. 
• Elements of project management experience, including preparing and managing project scope, schedule, team activities, communication, and deliverables.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with, acquiring, and analyzing large data sets.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel including quantitative modeling and analysis required.
• Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required.
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
• Self-starter capable of efficiently and proactively working independently as well as with a geographically dispersed team on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong sense of Team. Always willing to step in and take on additional responsibility for the good of the entire Team.
• Strong attention to details as deliverables are open to public review and scrutiny.
• Willing to travel as needed. In the first year, travel may be up to 25%. As you develop your skills for success and become a crucial part of multiple project teams, travel requirements may increase. Requires a satisfactory driving record.

Traits and Attributes of Top Performers

• Intellectual curiosity: Top performers are driven to ask why things work or don’t work currently and how we might address this—even if, or especially if, this thinking falls outside of conventional wisdom. We need bold thinkers willing to challenge assumptions and develop new solutions.
• Lifelong learners: This field provides ample opportunities to develop new skills and tools, and to combine left and right brain thinking to combine math, modeling, and an understanding of public perception to solve complex problems. There are little to no “routine” answers. The most successful candidates have a genuine desire to continually learn to solve our clients’ problems and improve the communities we serve.
• Analytical problem solvers: Top performers understand (or are capable of quickly learning) how different factors, variables, and policies result in corresponding financial impacts. They understand how to make appropriate simplifying assumptions and how to model complex systems accurately.
• Collaboration and co-creation : Successful candidates will have the ability to work effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, disciplines and abilities in a cooperative and generative manner, to achieve a common goal.
• Creativity and adaptability: Top performers will have the ability to think about a task or a problem in a new or different way, to create strategies for disruption, breakthrough, and transformation.
• Strategic and systematic thinking: Top performers will be able to synthesize different sides of an issue by examining a range of options and outcomes, considering the interconnectedness of elements as parts of a whole system, and building intellectual frameworks to guide decisions, solve problems, support innovation, and inform analysis and action.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Strong candidates will both seek and thrive on all opportunities and risks; Top performers will leverage tenacity and optimism to innovate, effect change, break orthodoxies and create new value for clients.
• Sincere desire to please our clients: Top performers seem to have an innate drive, beyond personal gain, for ensuring that our clients are pleased with our performance and our deliverables, and they realize that providing rigorous, error-free, and unbiased advisory services is a critical step in ensuring the client’s long-term sustainability. Top performers draw on this deeper motivation, as it takes time and effort to drive change with our clients.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in business, finance, economics, statistics, data science, engineering, accounting, planning, or related fields are required. Master’s Degree is a plus.
• 5 years total post-undergraduate work experience related to planning, economics, asset management, infrastructure funding/delivery, financial analysis and working for local government agencies in these areas.