Senior Director, Head of Partnerships
- Organization
- Grand Challenges Canada
- Location
- Hybrid: MaRS Discovery Tower (Toronto) + Work from Home
- Job Type
- Permanent, Full-Time
- Where to Apply
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Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) is dedicated to the vision of a world where innovation helps every person thrive. Our role in this vision is to support local, scalable, sustainable innovation that builds a healthier, more equitable future.
As an innovation platform and one of the leading impact-first investors in Canada, GCC has funded over 1,600 innovations in more than 100 countries. These innovations have already touched the lives of more than 100 million people, and we’re on a journey to reach 700 million people with lifesaving and life-improving innovations by 2035.
Delivering on that strategy depends on more than grant-by-grant fundraising. It depends on partnership architecture: structures that use GCC’s own capital as a lever to attract co-investment from other philanthropies and to bring institutional financiers such as MDBs and DFIs into our outcomes. GCC is seeking a Senior Director and Head of Partnerships to design and lead that work.
This role is built around relationship capital and structural imagination. The Head of Partnerships will bring trusted, peer-level relationships with the Government of Canada and other governments, philanthropies, and multilateral institutions that matter most to our strategy, and they will use those relationships to engineer the consortia, anchor mechanisms and blended finance vehicles that put GCC in lanes other intermediaries cannot occupy. They will sustain a small, distributed team that they develop deliberately, and serve the organization as a whole.
Reports to: Status: Salary: Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer (CSPO)
$158,341/year + benefits
