Senior Manager, Contracts and Grants Services - Central Office

What you will be doing

The Senior Manager Contracts & Grants Services provides vision leadership and operational oversight for NSCCs Shared Services Centre within Research Innovation & Workforce Development (RIWD). This position leads the optimization of administrative financial and operational support services ensuring efficiency consistency and seamless integration across RIWD units.

The Senior Manager collaborates with internal stakeholders across NSCC departments and external partners including funding agencies industry leaders and government bodies to drive best-in-class shared services that support research innovation and workforce development initiatives.

Reporting to the Associate Vice-President of Research Innovation and Workforce Development the Senior Manager will oversee financial management HR procurement and research support to enhance efficiency eliminate redundancies and strengthen regulatory compliance. The role also includes overseeing financial services contract negotiation policy compliance grant administration and industry engagement ensuring alignment with institutional objectives while optimizing resources.

The Shared Services Centre at NSCC is designed to deliver a dynamic agile and responsive service model fostering innovation interdisciplinary collaboration and strategic partnerships. The Senior Manager will ensure that SSC services effectively integrate with NSCCs broader institutional framework.

Serving as a key liaison the Senior Manager will build and maintain relationships with NSCC leadership government agencies and funding partners facilitating engagement across business units schools and campuses. Success in this role requires strong collaboration and cross-functional coordination ensuring that operational services are fully aligned with institutional priorities while supporting NSCCs mission and strategic goals.

Qualifications and Occupational Experience:

• The minimum educational qualification for this position is an undergraduate degree in business administration finance public administration law economics or a related field. An MBA MPA or a Masters degree in a relevant field would be considered an asset.
• You have a minimum of seven (7) years of recent and related occupational experience in strategic operations research administration financial management or post-secondary administration.
• You possess recent experience in a leadership role ideally in a large complex organization.
• You have broad general knowledge of stakeholder engagement and partnership development within government industry academia and funding agencies.
• Proven expertise in managing complex multi-million-dollar budgets cost-sharing frameworks and financial reporting systems.
• Strong track record in contract negotiation policy development and regulatory compliance within a large organization.
• You possess demonstrated knowledge of human resources management principles with the ability to create an engaging and inclusive and effective working environment for employees through hiring orientation development and mentorship.
• Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale transformation initiatives process optimization and organizational change management.
• You have a proven track record of leadership by effectively managing and inspiring staff
• Experience managing physical and financial resources to ensure effective service delivery.
• High proficiency in digital environments and financial reporting systems including COGNOS ERP systems and Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategies that drive efficiency enhance service delivery and align with institutional objectives.
• Proven ability to quickly establish effective and credible relationships both internally and externally is also essential in this role.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated creativity in idea generation and solution implementation.

Relevant Skills and Knowledge

• You demonstrate a commitment to inclusion diversity equity accessibility and anti-racism
• You possess excellent interpersonal skills that enable you to interact at all levels of an organization
• You are known for your superior customer service skills and are able to create a relationship of trust beyond the immediate interaction
• Your superb team working skills enable you to contribute positively to a team environment
• Demonstrated leadership in cross-functional teams ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and fostering a high-performing culture.
• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills with a history of innovation and effective decision-making.
• You have specific technical occupational knowledge and skill in post-secondary administration and research development.
• You are known for your problem solving and critical thinking skills
• You are a strong communicator
• You possess excellent coordination skills specifically related to coordinating multiple projects/programs simultaneously sometimes with exceptionally large contract value (e.g. >$1M).
• You have proven records and information management skills and abilities to track awards budgets contracts and deliverables across a breadth of activities
• You have strong project management skills lead teams through process improvement change management and strategic initiatives.
• You are dedicated to life-long learning and embrace a philosophy of continuing education and professional development for yourself and your team.

We value Diversity and Inclusion

The College values diversity and inclusion and is committed to employment equity. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates including Aboriginal/Indigenous Persons Black/African Nova Scotians members of racially visible communities persons with disabilities persons of a minority sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression and women. Applicants from these communities wishing to self-identify may do so by completing the online questionnaire within the application.

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Candidates selected for interviews will be expected to provide at least three recent occupational references. The successful candidate will be expected to provide official transcripts to show proof of academic achievements.

NSCC is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. As part of this commitment NSCC will ensure that applicants are provided reasonable accommodations as required. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process please contact Nikki Berrigan HR Generalist at emailprotected. Our Employee Workplace Accommodation Policy can be found here.