Grant Development & Compliance Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Conduct research to discover funding opportunities from government, foundations, and institutions throughout Canada.

• Evaluate these opportunities in relation to MCSC's mission, priorities, capabilities, and potential for success.

• Establish and manage a funding pipeline and calendar.

• Oversee the preparation of grant applications, proposals, expressions of interest, and renewals.

• Craft persuasive narratives that convey MCSC's programs, outcomes, and overall impact.

• Customize applications to align with funder priorities, requirements, and evaluation standards.

• Collaborate with internal teams to collect program details, outcomes, data, budgets, and supplementary materials.

• Administer a portfolio of active grants from the time of award through to reporting and renewal.

• Monitor grant commitments, deadlines, deliverables, funding conditions, and reporting obligations.

• Coordinate both interim and final reports for funders.

• Convert program outcomes, data, and results into clear reports that illustrate the impact of funded work.

• Partner with program, finance, technology, and partnership teams to ensure that grant commitments are measurable, realistic, and reportable.

• Engage directly with funders about applications, reporting, renewals, and grant requirements.

• Maintain organized records of applications, agreements, reports, correspondence, and grant commitments.

• Collaborate with Finance on grant budgets, funding distributions, financial data, budget monitoring, and variances.

• Create practical tools, templates, processes, and tracking systems for the management of institutional funding.

• Enhance MCSC's sustainable grant development and management capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in writing successful grant applications, proposals, or institutional funding submissions.

• Demonstrated familiarity with government funding programs and grant processes.

• Exceptional writing, editing, and communication abilities.

• Strong research, analytical, and opportunity assessment skills.

• Capability to develop compelling funding narratives that link programs, outcomes, and impact.

• Competence in independently managing a portfolio of grants, deadlines, commitments, and reporting obligations.

• Solid financial acumen, including understanding grant budgets, funding allocations, variances, and financial reporting requirements.

• Skill in interpreting program outcomes and data to articulate impact in funder reports.

• Excellent organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and strong follow-through.

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities while ensuring accuracy and quality.

• Strong judgment in evaluating funding opportunities.

• Ability to work autonomously as well as collaborate effectively across the organization.

• A proactive, curious mindset with the ability to think creatively when seeking funding opportunities.

• Experience utilizing tools or systems for managing grant pipelines, deadlines, reporting, and portfolio information.

• A satisfactory criminal record check is required as a condition of employment.

• Additional screening may be necessary based on the specific responsibilities of the role.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment.

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Opportunity to influence MCSC's institutional funding processes and develop enduring systems.

• A meaningful national mission with a direct connection to social impact.