Grants and Funding Specialist
Permanent Full-time
J0626-0683
The Town of New Tecumseth is looking for a Grants and Funding Specialist to join our rapidly growing team.
Why work with us?
Our growing community, identified as one of the fastest growing municipalities by Statistics Canada, located about an hour north of Toronto, offers beautiful rural and urban landscapes and diverse opportunities to work in a technologically progressive, public environment. Additionally, the Town offers the following perquisites:
- flexible work environment, including ability to work from home up to two (2) days per week
- employer paid health and dental benefit packages
- competitive salaries
- OMERS pension plan
- free gym membership at Town recreation centres
- professional development opportunities
Under the direction of the Manager, Financial Planning, this position plays a strategic role in strengthening the Town’s financial sustainability by maximizing access to external grant funding, reducing reliance on the Town’s reserves and reserve funds. The Grants & Funding Specialist is responsible for proactively identifying federal, provincial, and other external funding opportunities that align with the Town’s corporate goals, capital plans, and strategic priorities. The role leads the full grant lifecycle, from prospect research and proposal development through to submission, award management, and compliance, and serves as the Town’s primary subject matter expert on the external funding landscape.
Responsibilities:
1. Research, Assessment and Grant Strategy:
- Develop, maintain and continuously update a strategic grant funding pipeline aligned with the Town’s Long-Range Financial Plan (LRFP), infrastructure priorities, and strategic objectives.
- Research and identify suitable government and private-sector grant opportunities.
- Maintain a centralized grant management tracking system to monitor application progress, critical deadlines, funding approvals, compliance requirements and post-award reporting obligations.
- Identify funding opportunities that may benefit community partners, grassroots organizations, non-profits, and external stakeholders, and support the Town in developing collaborative multi-partnered applications.
2. Stakeholder Collaboration & Coordination
- Collaborate with Town Departments to develop, submit, and manage multi-partnered grant applications that align with Town priorities and strategic plans.
- Coordinate interdepartmental resources by setting priorities, timelines and deliverables for information gathering, drafting, review, approval and final submissions to ensure deadlines are met.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key government contacts to support partnership development and future funding opportunities.
- Prepare and present grant pipeline status updates and funding summaries.
3. Compliance & Reporting
- Coordinate and monitor post-award funding requirements including reporting, claims, submissions, audits, performance measures, and compliance with transfer payment agreements.
- Verify financial details for applications and mandatory reporting submissions with Financial Planning Analysts.
- Maintain records of past and current grant activities; prepare reports, briefing notes, summaries and funding updates for management and council as required.
- Support the development and continuous improvement of internal grant application and administration processes within the Town.
Qualifications:
- Minimum required: Completion of post-secondary in public administration, business, finance or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 5 years’ working experience, preferably in a municipal setting.
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in grant or report writing for a professional audience.
- Excellent knowledge of proposal submission process.
- Strong research skills and knowledge of information sources.
- Knowledge of Canadian Government grants and the funding landscape.
- Previous experience/knowledge in prospect identification (prospect research) and/or the use of prospect research databases is considered an asset.
The successful candidate must have the ability to align with established goals and objectives and is able to create/follow plans and processes accordingly to deliver task and goal completion to a high standard. The Town of New Tecumseth values progressive ideas and actions; the successful candidate will have proven ability to embrace change, be resourceful and to seek new ideas and creativity to maximize effectiveness to provide high quality citizen-centred services to our community.
Salary: $78,569.73- $99,756.21 plus employer paid benefits and OMERS pension plan
Hours: 35 hours per week, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm, Monday - Friday
Location: Town Administration Centre, 24 Tupper Street West, Alliston
Start Date: August 4th, 2026
To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and copies of the required credentials (post-secondary degree, training, etc) by July 10th.
We thank you for your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Information collected will be used solely for the purpose of candidate selection, in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information & Protection of Privacy Act.
The Town of New Tecumseth is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes. If contacted for an interview, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.
