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$60,000 / year
Full-time
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Position: Full time contract position (Temporary Protected Leave Replacement)

Available: September 15, 2025

Term: We welcome applicants for this role to cover a protected leave starting September 2025. We expect the leave and role to last between ten and twelve months, depending on the returning employee's timeline.

Salary & Benefits: $60,000 per year
Eligible for hybrid remote work/office model

The position of Grant Coordinator is a full-time contract position. The Grant Coordinator reports directly to the Lead Program Manager.

General

The Grant Coordinator works closely with the Lead Program Manager to facilitate all aspects of the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund (SCCF) grant application process. This includes providing input and review of application materials, managing general inquiries from potential applicants, and liaising with other stakeholders. The fund supports initiatives that address climate change and community resilience, and this role ensures these priorities are reflected throughout the application process.

Specific Responsibilities

  1. Grant Administration
    • Manage the main e-mail account and respond to inquiries related to the application process and fund eligibility
    • Review and provide input on application materials, including providing ongoing feedback to staff from applicants and potential applicants
  2. Grant Intake, Evaluation, and Follow-up
    • Assist applicants and prospective applicants throughout the intake, evaluation, and implementation phases
    • Receive and process digital applications and coordinate with the Lead Program Manager according to the intake and evaluation schedule
    • Review applications for completeness and communicate directly with applicants to resolve any issues
    • Draft and execute funding agreements with successful applicants, ensuring terms are clear and aligned with program requirements
    • Provide guidance and support throughout the funding agreement process
  3. Project Oversight & Performance
    • Support the management of funded projects, ensuring commitments and reporting requirements are met
    • Assist applicants in identifying key performance indicators and success metrics
    • Collaborate with staff to implement continuous improvement strategies for the SCCF
  4. Reports & Miscellaneous
    • To complete regular reports as directed and carry out other duties as assigned by the Lead Program Manager.

Training: Consists of a comprehensive job training program plus an orientation to the organization.

Qualifications: Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet the overarching goals of the team

Good communication skills to assist diverse stakeholders from local government academia, First Nations communities, and non-profit organizations

Experience working in a non-profit or government environment and with climate change projects considered assets

Previous experience with fund administration or grant screening required

Education: Post-secondary education required in a related discipline

To Apply:
Submit a cover letter and resume:
Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities
1809 Barrington Street, Suite #1500
Halifax NS B3J 3K8
Attention: Selection Committee
E-mail: [email protected]

Applications accepted until the position is filled

Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities values diversity and inclusiveness and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including Aboriginal/Indigenous persons, racially visible persons, persons with disabilities, and women. Any job applicant requiring accommodation in order to ensure equal access to employment, remuneration, promotion, and training is encouraged to make their accommodation needs known, to the extent that they are able.

Competition Number: Grant-0722CB
Company Website: http://www.nsfm.ca
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About Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities

About Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities

The Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities (NSFM) is the collective voice of municipalities in the province. We are a non-profit organization that represents all 375 municipally elected officials and all 49 municipalities.
We are governed by a Board of Directors, consisting of elected municipal leaders and one administrator, appointed by the Association of Municipal Administrators of Nova Scotia (AMANS).
Formerly known as the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities (UNSM), NSFM was established on August 15, 1906, during the Convention of the Union of Canadian Municipalities in Halifax, Nova Scotia, when Mayor Black of Wolfville motioned that a Provincial Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities be formed.
After the benefits of a municipal union were discussed, the motion passed unanimously. Mayor R.T.MacIlreith of Halifax, and Halifax City Engineer F.W.W. Doane, were appointed President and Secretary, respectively. At the first meeting, a constitution similar to those adopted by other provincial associations, was read clause by clause, and then approved.
Fees were set in the following manner: Counties would pay $10; towns, $2 per thousand population (not less than $10 total); and cities, $2 per thousand population (not to exceed $50 total). After its first year in operation, the Union generated $180 in fees from its 12 members. By August 1908, membership grew to 18 with $210 generated from fees. A membership of 50 was achieved at the time of the Seventh Annual Convention in 1912.
The Union was established to protect the interests of municipal units in Nova Scotia. On August 28, 1907, at the Second Annual Convention, Mayor MacIlreith succinctly stated the raison d'etre of provincial unions of municipalities by noting that "organizations such as this (the UNSM) are charged with the particular duty of watching all legislation affecting the interests of municipalities." President A.E. McMahon noted at the UNSM Annual Convention on August 24, 1910, that the time will come when the government would rely more extensively on the Union's services and expertise.
McMahon's premonition proved accurate, and, with time, an interactive decision-making process developed between the Province and the Union. The NSFM increased its membership from 12 units to a high of 55 municipalities in the mid-1990s. Over time and through municipal amalgamation, the membership stands now at 49.
While, in its present role, the NSFM does not assign committees to examine municipal expenses incurred in the suppression of infectious diseases as was the case in 1907, its mandate has not diverged greatly from Mayor MacIlreith's era.
Although the visages of staff and elected officials have changed, the Federation's mandate is still, as much as ever, to protect the interests of Nova Scotia's municipalities.

LEGISLATION

The Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities, formerly the Union of Nova Scotia. Municipalities, was incorporated in 1981 under the Act to Incorporate the Union of Nova Scotia_Municipalities.

The Act was amended on May 22, 2003.

2019 REBRANDING

A request was made to the Province of Nova Scotia to amend the legislation to incorporate our new name, Nova Scotia Federation of Municipalities. That request was granted by an Order In Council on September 3, 2019.