Canada Funding Specialist

Introduction

Do you have experience writing Grants and Tenders from the Canadian government for international assistance? You will be responsible for the overall administration and management support of Canada-funded projects and actively contribute to preparing new Canada project proposals.

Duties and Responsibilities

Proposal Writing

• Mapping of Canada and international funding opportunities and private investors funding.
• Conducting research, analysis and documentation.
• Conceptualisation, visualisation and iterative challenging of new project ideas.
• Design Canada and international projects.
• Consortium-building, introduction to relevant consortia and partners’ recruitment for Canada funding applications.
• Writing Canada project proposals including scientific excellence, societal impact and project implementation, budget, deliverables and planning.
• Writing Logical Framework (LogFrame) to submit with the application.
• Submission of AFD project proposals.

Project Management

• Lead on the successful implementation of Canada project deliverables and develop and manage an implementation timetable to ensure delivery of project targets to a high quality and within the contracted timeframe and budget.
• Plan project activities, supporting project leads to ensure detailed project implementation plans are in place, understood by team members and effectively implemented as scheduled.
• Track progress against programme objectives, ensuring full completion as per programme work plans.
• Ensure effective systems to monitor and evaluate the quality of project delivery are in place.
• Develop and oversee implementation of comprehensive and cost-effective project visibility and communication strategies, reaching out to all project stakeholders.
• Ensure quality reporting of project achievements and documenting best practices and lessons learnt in the course of implementation.
• Work closely with support departments (Finance and ΙΤ) to ensure adequate support for project delivery.

Budget Management

• Be responsible for designated project budgets, including monitoring expenditure against budget lines and ensuring funds are appropriately utilised in meeting project objectives.

Degree

• Academic background in International or another relevant field with a Bachelor’s or/and preferably a Master’s degree. Those without a degree, but with a vast amount of experience are welcome to apply. We will discuss this with individual candidates.

Required Skills and Experience

• Extensive knowledge and understanding of Canada policy and decisions about health, education, social issues, human rights, democracy, technology, environment, territorial cooperation etc.
• Responsibility, consistency and adherence to strict deadlines.
• Proven track records in drafting and implementing Canada funded projects.
• Administrative, organisational and communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a can-do attitude.
• Intercultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Good problem solver, enjoying the variety and delivering efficient, scalable, and project focused solutions.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritise and work on own initiative.
• A drive to achieve quality in all aspects of the role

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English and/or French (both written and oral).
• Knowledge of a second language such as French, Italian, or Portuguese is an asset.

Technological Awareness:

• Fluency in office software, email, web-based applications and databases.
• Command of social media.
• Actively seeks to apply technology to appropriate tasks.