10 Jan
World Vision Canada
Mississauga
Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too. Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world: Life in all its fullness for every child.
You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable children. Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:
For Children. For Change. For Life.
Position:
Lead, Grant Implementation, Risk and Compliance
Reports to:
Director, Program Excellence & Impact Delivery
Position Term:
Full Time Permanent
Primary Location:
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type:
Hybrid
Job Purpose:
If you thrive on doing amazing, purposeful work that makes a real and lasting difference in the lives of the world’s most vulnerable girls and boys, then you could be the perfect fit to join our collaborative Programs & Policy team.
As World Vision Canada’s (WVC) grant portfolio is growing, we are looking for a Lead who can lead our grant risk and compliance functions as we continue to diversify our institutional donor base. The Lead, Grant Implementation, Risk and Compliance will work closely with internal stakeholders to review, develop, and implement procedures and systems to support, strengthen and monitor grant compliance with policies, donor requirements, applicable regulations, and grant compliance and management standards. The Lead will also provide portfolio-wide support to proposals and awards from inception to closeout, providing guidance and training, serving an advisory role from proposal design teams, and ensuring compliance with award terms and conditions,
while working to minimize organizational risk. This includes, but is not limited to, support to troubleshoot reporting issues, ensuring due diligence and reporting requirements are met, maintaining policies and procedures, developing reporting guides, creation and tracking of contracts, subcontracts, MOUs, and other supporting grant documentation. Finally, the Lead will support efforts to pursue strategic efficiencies and enhancements in the award and administration of grants with key institutional donors,
Gender equality is a priority focus of WVC. As such, all duties and responsibilities will be undertaken through a gender equality lens.
Responsibilities:
Support business development efforts
- Maintain a broad and deep understanding of relevant donor policies, regulations, and procedures, and inform relevant staff on changing award requirements.
- Support team to vet prospective donors for alignment with CRA requirements and WVC’s eligibility, while ensuring due diligence protocols are met.
- Review funding opportunities as relates to award compliance requirements.
- Coordinate with Business Development Managers to respond to donor and partner pre-award compliance inquiries and support proposal design stage.
- Provide leadership on standardization of contract management, negotiation, and monitoring to align with CRA and donor policies in collaboration with WVC Legal and Program Finance.
- Identify and help pursue opportunities to engage with institutional donors to streamline, simplify, and enhance grant administration and finance requirements.
Ensure grant compliance and minimize organizational risk
- Support successful handover process from project design team to implementation team
- Oversee grant management surge roster to ensure pipeline of grant managers available, and coordinate with People Leader role on recommendations for project management lead where level of effort is less than 100%
- Support grant managers throughout the life of the project serving as the main point of contact for compliance-related questions, to problem solve and define processes to enhance compliance.
- Ensure that program contracts, Memorandums of Understanding, partnership agreements, renewals and amendments move through the system in a timely manner.
- Support grant management staff manage response to failures in compliance including fraud and safeguarding incident management.
- Support grant management team to arrive at prompt and successful resolution of audits and investigations of potential or identified noncompliance.
- Leadreview process should breach of compliance be discovered.
Foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and learning.
- Facilitate regular and meaningful interaction among grant managers to create a space for sharing and learning through the Grant Management Community of Practice.
- Support prioritization of work that spans across all grant managers – such as enterprise requests around content management strategy
- Provide leadership to the management of risks associated with non-compliance through capacity building with multiple stakeholders, including GMs, to influence change, information sharing, and provide managers end-to-end support and direction to program implementation.
- Develop and implement tools and communication strategies for grant compliance resources across the organization.
- Influence relevant WVI initiatives, policy, and systems to align with WVC regulatory framework and donor required frameworks.
Qualifications:
- BA in International Development or relatedfield.
- 7+years of work experience in grants management and compliance.
- Experience with grant reporting and a thoroughunderstanding of institutional donors and legal requirementsfor key donors including Global Affairs Canada, European Union, and some knowledge of UN Institutionsan asset.
- Ability to understand and interpret program budgets and financial statements.
- People skills/ability to build strong working relationships with peers.
- Ability to work cross-organizationally with multiple stakeholders.
- High degree of independence, initiative, responsibility, and accountability, as well as capability in a team environment.
- Skills in cross-cultural communication and experience working with remote teams.
- Good technical skills in writing, editing, formatting, and verbal communication.
- Spanish or French would be an asset
Why Consider Us?
- World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada and GTA top employer awards.
- We are Canada’s largest development, relief, and advocacy non-profit organization.
- We embody an Agile mindset here.
- We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account.
- We match pension contributions up to 6% and provide a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves.
- We offer extra time off for restoration by closing for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year.
- We provide up to six weeks’ vacation, plus paid sick days,
personal days & wellness days.
- We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.
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We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.
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Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.
World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
Other details
- Job Family Field Operations
- Job Function Individual Contributor
- Pay Type Salary
- Employment Indicator Remote with Travel/External Engagement
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