Manager, Grants Administration

3 months ago

Edmonton, Canada Alberta Innovates Full time

**Manager, Grants Administration** **Services**

**Are you our next Manager, Grants Administration Services? You would be a good fit for this position if you**:

- Have extensive experience in administering grants throughout their lifecycles, ensuring audit compliance, and optimizing processes.
- Have a deep understanding of grant administration and management principles.
- Bring exceptional leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.

**We are game changers.**

Alberta Innovates is a provincially funded corporation with a mandate to deliver 21st-century solutions for the most compelling challenges facing Albertans. We do this by building on our province’s research and technology development strengths in the core sectors of health, environment, energy, food and fibre, and platforms such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and omics. We are working with our partners to diversify Alberta’s economy, improve our environmental performance and enhance the well-being of Albertans through research and innovation.

Our subsidiary, InnoTech Alberta, offers a diversified range of scientific engineering and technological research and testing capabilities, and the facilities to support technology scale-up. Our multidisciplinary team has the depth of experience to work across all sectors, from energy to health to food and fibre. InnoTech Alberta offers you access to research talent, technical expertise, and unique facilities that can help accelerate technology development that serves both the private and public sector.

**Intrigued? Here’s some more information about the position**:

- Manages staff activities, establishes team goals and objectives, monitors productivity and work quality, ensures adherence to policies and best practices and works collaboratively with the Executive Director, Corporate Planning and Reporting on recruitment activities for the Grants Administration Services team. Manages staff workflow including planning, allocation, prioritization of work and cover off and re-allocates staff as necessary to ensure continuity of grants administration across the organization.
- Leads an effective performance management process, develops, and implements employee professional development plans, completes succession planning and provides coaching strategies for continuous development of team. Provides mentorship and training to team members and manages resources to achieve high performance.
- Identifies opportunities for improvement in grants administration processes and practices across the Organization, including the enterprise grant management system. Builds and maintains effective collaborative relationships with business lines, General Counsel and Finance staff to understand internal stakeholder needs, influence change and develop strategies for improved grants administration services across the Organization.
- Proactively identifies opportunities for business optimization through grants administration process and activity improvements across the Organization. Develops strategies and implements plans through appropriate structures to ensure continued momentum in achieving efficiency, effectiveness, and operational transparency to ensure changes are approved and implemented.
- Collaborates within Corporate Planning and Reporting to help establish operational performance measures and targets for grant related operations and ensures appropriate business intelligence is readily available in a concise format.
- Actively contributes to committees, working groups and other collaborative activities to support operational activities and priorities that touch on grants administration services and corporate goals.
- In collaboration with the Executive Director, Corporate Planning and Reporting, manages team budget and reporting activities, authorizes expenditures within budget and approved limits, explains variances, and ensures the timely submission of required internal and external reports and financial documents.

**Educational Requirement**:

- Post-secondary education in Business Management, Legal or Contract Management.
- Undergraduate or Graduate Degree in Business Administration, Business Management or related relevant discipline **preferred.**

**Experience and Qualifications we are looking for**:

- Minimum 8 years of progressively responsible grant administration, contract management, legal or management experience
- Minimum 2 years of leadership/people management experience
- Experience working in private industry, government and corporate administrative or management environment.
- Higher exposure to and understanding of corporate, commercial and contract workflows, processes, and requirements.
- Experience working independently and as a team.
- Familiarity with government, research and/or innovation orientated environments is **an asset.**

**Skills Required**:

- Strong dispute, conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Management and leadership skills
- Business and strategic

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