Funding Officer

**Internal/External Posting Notice**

**Title**: Funding Officer

**Department**: International Programs

**Status**: Full-time, 18-month term, unionized

**Location**: Ottawa, ON Canada

**Immediate Supervisor**: Manager, Program Development, Quality and Knowledge

**Salary**: $ 67,966.33 - $ 89,439.04

**Level**: Band 2

**Application Deadline**:April 28, 2025**

Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 85 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners and women's rights organizations to challenge the systems that perpetuate inequality and keep people poor. Together we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families and entire communities. That’s why we believe that ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.

Oxfam Canada offers a generous compensation and benefits program, but more than that, we offer the opportunity to be a part of our global movement for change. If you advocate for gender equality, are passionate about women’s rights, and share our values of Equality, Empowerment, Solidarity, Inclusiveness, Accountability, and Courage - we want you on our team

**SCOPE OF POSITION**:
Under the supervision of the Manager, Program Development, Quality and Knowledge, and in coordination with the Fund Development Department and the Policy, Campaigns and Communications Department, the Funding Officer will contribute to Oxfam Canada’s institutional funding strategy. The Funding Officer will advance Oxfam Canada’s funding diversification efforts, in particular, the identification and stewardship of relevant institutional donors, such as Government Departments, Crown Corporations or large Foundations, which have the potential to contribute to Oxfam Canada’s international and domestic women’s rights programs, in addition to pursuing opportunities for funding with Global Affairs Canada (GAC). The Funding Officer will foster strategic relationships with prospective institutional donors, and partners, act as lead for Oxfam Canada as the account manager for GAC and coordinate the development and submission of quality institutional funding proposals. The Funding Officer will access the full range of institutional funding opportunities available to Oxfam Canada as a member of the international Oxfam Confederation..

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**:(This is not an exhaustive list of duties to be performed):

- Prospect and track institutional funding opportunities for Oxfam’s programs/projects, including but not limited to GAC (various branches), Canadian foundations, Canadian government agencies, departments or crown corporations and other institutional donors.
- Liaise with colleagues in Oxfam Canada and in Oxfam America to promote the impact of our programs within relevant American Foundations.
- Position Oxfam Canada before key donors and foster strategic relationships with them.
- Engage, build and maintain relationships with priority Oxfam country offices to understand their priorities, capacity and needs, and support the capacity of key country staff (as required) to identify and advance funding opportunities;
- Share information and leads as they are obtained with Oxfam colleagues in countries as appropriate;
- Match funding prospects with Oxfam programs, including domestic programs, and determine/advise the Manager on bid-no-bid decisions regarding proposal development.
- Lead and/or support the development and submission of expressions of interest, requests for proposals, concept notes and institutional funding proposals for identified opportunities.
- Provide quality control on submissions, including proposal budgets, ensuring optimal cost and overhead recoveries, quality control of proposal’s theory of change, logic models and monitoring and performance management frameworks, with particular emphasis on effective integration of women’s rights and feminist approaches.
- Ensure submissions are properly stewarded; maintain relationships with donors post-submission.

**Other accountabilities**:

- Participate actively in the International Programs Department and relevant cross-departmental working groups and Oxfam International Funding Group.
- Represent Oxfam Canada at designated tables within the Oxfam Confederation, the Canadian Non-governmental Organization (NGO) community, and with donors.
- Support effective program development strategic planning, and monitoring and evaluation of institutional funding activities and opportunities (pipeline) and develop accurate and timely reports on efforts, including on the progress in implementing Oxfam Canada’s institutional funding strategy.
- Support the Manager in the effective management of the Program Development, Quality and Kn