Grant Development & Compliance Specialist

Forge Performance Group

About The Position

The Grant Development & Compliance Specialist owns MCSC’s institutional funding portfolio and helps strengthen and grow the organization’s government funding capacity. The role covers the funding cycle, from researching and assessing opportunities and developing applications through grant management, reporting, demonstrating impact, and renewals. Grant writing is central to the position, alongside strategy, relationship management, financial coordination, and organization. The specialist will help build a disciplined, sustainable government funding function by developing practical tools, templates, processes, and tracking systems that promote consistency, visibility, and institutional knowledge. The role focuses on government and other institutional funding, not broad fundraising, major gifts, individual donor portfolios, fundraising events, broad corporate sponsorship, or routine donor administration. The position is with the Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC), is full-time and permanent, and is based in Calgary or remote. A satisfactory criminal record check is required as a condition of employment; additional screening requirements may apply based on the position’s responsibilities.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience writing successful grant applications, proposals, or institutional funding submissions.
Demonstrated experience working with government funding programs and grant processes.
Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills.
Strong research, analytical, and opportunity-assessment skills.
Ability to develop compelling funding narratives connecting programs, outcomes, and impact.
Ability to independently manage a portfolio of grants, deadlines, commitments, and reporting requirements.
Strong financial literacy, including the ability to understand grant budgets, funding allocations, variances, and financial reporting requirements, and to partner effectively with Finance.
Ability to interpret program outcomes and data and clearly articulate impact in funder reporting.
Excellent organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.
Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy and quality.
Strong judgment in determining which funding opportunities are worth pursuing.
Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively across different areas of an organization.
Proactive, curious approach and ability to think creatively when identifying funding opportunities.
Experience using tools or systems to manage grant pipelines, deadlines, reporting, and portfolio information.
Satisfactory criminal record check as a condition of employment; additional screening requirements may apply based on the position’s responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing grants from application through reporting and renewal.
Canadian federal and/or provincial government funding experience.
Foundation or institutional funding experience.
Nonprofit or charitable-sector experience.
Experience with outcomes measurement, impact reporting, or evaluation.
Experience building grant-management systems, processes, or templates.
Familiarity with grant-management software, CRM systems, or other funding-tracking tools.

Responsibilities

Research and identify relevant government, foundation, and institutional funding opportunities across Canada.
Assess funding opportunities against MCSC’s mandate, priorities, capacity, and likelihood of success.
Build and maintain a funding pipeline and calendar.
Lead the writing and development of grant applications, proposals, expressions of interest, and renewals.
Develop compelling narratives about MCSC’s programs, outcomes, and impact, tailored to funder priorities, requirements, and evaluation criteria.
Collaborate with internal teams to gather program information, outcomes, data, budgets, and supporting materials, and maintain reusable grant content and organizational information.
Manage a portfolio of active grants from award through reporting and renewal.
Track grant commitments, deadlines, deliverables, funding conditions, and reporting requirements.
Coordinate information for interim and final funder reports and communicate funded work’s outcomes and impact clearly.
Work with program, finance, technology, and partnership teams to ensure grant commitments are measurable, realistic, and reportable.
Communicate directly with funders about applications, reporting, renewals, grant requirements, and portfolio matters.
Maintain organized records of applications, agreements, reports, correspondence, and grant commitments.
Identify ways to strengthen reporting, demonstrate outcomes, and support successful renewals.
Work with Finance to develop and review grant budgets and funding allocations, prepare and review financial information for applications and reports, and address budget questions or variances in the context of grant requirements.
Develop practical tools, templates, processes, and tracking systems to strengthen institutional funding management and preserve organizational knowledge.
Think creatively about new funding opportunities and approaches to institutional funding.