Canada East Lead, North America Funding Program

Canada East Lead, North America Funding Program - ( 2300027B )

**Description**

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that makes a difference in communities across North America. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 22,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our Company stronger.

**Your Opportunity**

**NAFP**

**Your Key Responsibilities**

Program Management
- Lead the Eastern Canada NAFP program management strategy and deliverables for the program internally within Stantec. Lead efforts to research, acquire and develop projects that meet funding opportunities.
- Facilitate discussions with executive leadership on NAFP program status and organization evolution to support program growth.
- Help develop a strategic staffing plan focused on key hires needed to grow our presence in key areas. Provide guidance to funding specialists executing on deliverables within the program.

Policy and Funding Leadership
- Serve as a funding expert on multiple levels, including communication with team members to keep them informed on current opportunities and trends.
- Demonstrate an understanding of Canada federal government policy and budget systems and governmental timelines, to lead strategy efforts around grant and funding proposals in collaboration with technical support teams.
- Identify and evaluate provincial, federal, and private funding opportunities for their strategic, financial, and programmatic value to our clients (public and private).
- Perform key grant-writing and fund development duties as needed daily (identifying, collecting data, writing, directing).

Business Development
- Provide guidance and support to other account managers and business lines in identification and pursuit of opportunities.
- Drive strategic initiatives that further evolve the NAFP program and implement plans to address market gaps with leadership team and account managers.
- Assist with business development strategies and corresponding marketing collateral and selling material.

Other
- Drive Stantec’s Safer Together as well as Inclusion & Diversity culture, prioritizing diversity and the health and safety of our employees.
- Demonstrate a commitment to our code of business conduct, ethics and inclusion and diversity policies.

**Qualifications**

**Your Capabilities and Credentials**
- Achievement-oriented and a self-starter with proven success in securing grants, people leadership, and business development.
- Have strong understanding of Canadian federal departments and branches, funding agencies, and funding programs.
- Exceptional leadership, communication (both written and verbal), and team-building skills.
- Understand the procurement and sales cycles of the Canadian federal government as well as navigating funding and spending trends.
- Given short funding timelines and new federal funding programs, ability to understand programs and criteria quickly - strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience in responding to Requests for Proposals, Expressions of Interest, and Statements of Qualification.
- Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Acrobat Pro and other business systems required. Experience with additional data analysis tools is a plus.
- Committed to Health, Safety, and the Environment.
- Embraces Inclusion and Diversity, integrating into strategy and culture.
- Ability to travel as needed.

**Education and Experience**

Minimum ten (10) years of experience working directly within or collaboratively with Canadian federal funding programs. Also have proven, pre-existing relationships within one or more federal agencies. Examples include but are not limited to, Infrastructure Canada, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

Extensive leadership experience is required with the ability to manage large teams across multiple sectors.

This position will primarily work in an office setting, although some travel may be required.
- This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice._

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

**Benefits Summary**: Full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee