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Job Location drjobs

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 56300 - 59400

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

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About the Foundation
The McConnell Foundation is a private Canadian foundation that strives for a resilient inclusive and sustainable society that can successfully address its complex challenges.

Opportunity
The successful candidate will join a dynamic team that supports diverse and innovative approaches to community resilience reconciliation and climate change. We do this through a variety of means: financial contributions and investment capacity building consultation and collaboration with the public private and non-profit sectors.

Applications close at noon July 9th 2025.

Mode
Hybrid Must reside within Canada
Employment type
Full-Time Temporary Contract of 14 months
Supervisor
Program Director Climate
Department and Team
Program
Hiring Salary Range (90-95%)
$56300 to $59400
Statement on Salary Negotiation
During hiring employees are placed only at the top of the offered range if they demonstrate most or all asset qualifications.

Position summary
The Program Officer Climate supports the work of the Climate focus area. This involves review of funding requests research to support and refine the climate funding priorities outreach to organizations and projects across Canada and provide end to end administrative support.

Main responsibilities
Program Responsibilities
  • Reviews funding applications to the Foundation and offers information and recommendations to the Program Director
  • Supports the administration of the funding process from beginning to end.
  • Supports joint initiatives and collaboration with other teams at the Foundation (Reconciliation and Communities).
  • Reviews and follows up on documents and financial reports by partners.
  • Maintains relevant partner information in the database.
  • Works with the Program Director to implement the Climate annual work plan.
  • Helps the Program Director manage the budget and financial forecasts
  • Supports preparation of materials for Board meetings
  • Prepares reports and other materials to help ongoing development of the Climate Focus Area.
  • Supports on other tasks as advised by the Program Director
Collaboration and Representation
  • Contributes to outreach and sharing of information about the Climate funding strategy with potential partners
  • Engages partners to learn about their work and support them in successful implementation of their projects
  • Supports collaborations with other philanthropic foundations to raise additional funding to address the climate crisis.
  • Attends conferences and other climate-related events in Canada to inform the Climate strategy
People Culture and Organizational Development
  • Demonstrates commitment to equity diversity inclusion and accessibility (EDIA).
  • Demonstrates alignment with the Foundations values and mission.

Position requirements
  • 1-3 years experience in program support and/or administration.
  • Post-Secondary degree or equivalent experience.
  • Bilingualism in both English and French (B2 on the global scale).
  • Experience with and understanding of non-profit organizations and community-led initiatives.
  • Experience in climate work.
  • Commitment to Equity Diversity Inclusion and Accessibility frameworks and practices.
  • Availability and willingness to travel.

Assets
  • Experience in budget administration.
  • Experience with fundraising (grant writing) or the philanthropic sector in Canada.
  • Experience facilitating and coordinating groups.
Core Competencies and Desired Attributes
  • Alignment with the Foundations values and mission.
  • Demonstrates commitment to equity diversity inclusion.
  • Collaborates building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
  • Instills trust gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty integrity and authenticity.
  • Focuses on stakeholders anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple vantage points and groups.
  • Drives results consistently achieving desired outcomes even under tough circumstances.
  • Demonstrates a strategic mindset seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Role-Specific Competencies
  • Plans and aligns prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
  • Makes sense of complex high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
  • Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency high energy and enthusiasm.

Benefits
  • Generous fully paid benefits and a health spending account.
  • Employee Assistance and Virtual Medicine programs.
  • Hybrid working conditions and home office allowance.
  • Immediate vacation access and paid holiday time off.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
The McConnell Foundation is working towards strengthening our culture of inclusion and strives to build a team that reflects our mission for a more inclusive resilient and sustainable society. We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous people Black people racialized people women non-binary and gender-nonconforming people people from the 2SLGBTQQIA community people with disabilities (visible and invisible) and newcomers to Canada.

Our recruitment team will consider equity status throughout the recruitment process so we invite members from equity deserving groups to self-identify in their application.

Our work environment and hiring process is inclusive and accessible to anyone with unique needs in terms of accessibility and accommodations. We will support you throughout the life cycle of your employment with us. We ask that all applicants identify their accommodation needs by sending an email to accessibility @ so that we can create the necessary conditions so that you can participate fully in the hiring process. All information received in relation to equity status and accommodation will be remain confidential.


















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Employment Type

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