Canada Alberta Job Grant

Employee eligibility

Eligible trainees must be living in Alberta and include: employed trainees, unemployed trainees, employed family members and business members with four or fewer employees, including all owners. Trainees must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents or persons protected under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada), who are legally allowed to work in Canada.

Review detailed employee eligibility requirements in the most current Canada-Alberta Job Grant Applicant Guide.

Training eligibility

The CAJG is not a bursary program and is not intended to fund Bachelor degree or Diploma programs. Training must be relevant to the current operational needs of the business and the available job, and includes one of the following: Training to improve the performance of existing or new employees in current or new roles; Pre-apprenticeship/pre-employment training; or high school completion courses.

 For training to be eligible for CAJG funding, it must:

• meet or exceed 21 trainer instructional hours* and be delivered by an eligible training provider (like SAIT);
• start within six months of the application approval date;
• be completed within 52 weeks from the start date of the first training course on the application;
• result in some form of credential, such as record of completion, certificate, grade, mark or industry-recognized credential; and
• have interaction with an instructor

_{*The minimum 21 total instructional hours can be for one course or for multiple courses that in combination add to up to the minimum. For example: a 10-hour course plus a second 12-hour course taken within the required 52-week period would be acceptable. Note: A lunch hour included in a course cannot be claimed as an instructional hour.}

The training format can be delivered online (asynchronous or synchronous), onsite or in a classroom and may be undertaken on either a part-time or full-time basis. Self-directed asynchronous learning must include instructor interaction.

SAIT instructors delivering CAJG-eligible training meet the qualification requirements identified in the CAJG Applicant Guide. If you require specific instructor information for your CAJG funding application , contact a SAIT advisor relevant to your selected course/programming area. Note that SAIT reserves the right to limit registration, cancel, postpone or combine courses, alter course content, dates or times, and substitute instructors.

Review detailed training eligibility requirements in the most current Canada-Alberta Job Grant Applicant Guide.