Manager, Investment and Impact - 14 Month Maternity Leave Contract

The Manager , Investment and Impact, will play a key role in Jumpstart’s commitment to strengthening community sport across Canada, and in ensuring all kids have an opportunity to realize the benefits of participating in sport and play. 

Reporting to the AVP of Community Impact, the Manager of Investment and Impact will oversee Jumpstart's granting process, due diligence, and governance. This role plays a key role in leading Jumpstart’s needs-led granting, including listening, responding and incorporating community need into process and procedure.

What you will do:-

• Lead Jumpstart's grant investment portfolio, overseeing the review, assessment, due diligence, approval, and governance processes for grant applications to ensure investments align with organizational priorities, community needs, and intended impact outcomes.

• Manage and optimize grant operations and systems, including the grant management platform, application processes, funding workflows, and continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, consistency, accountability, and the grantee experience.

• Lead Jumpstart's grant data and reporting strategy in support of the organization's Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) framework, ensuring grant investment and impact data is effectively collected, analyzed, and reported.

• Provide financial oversight of the investment portfolio, managing grant budgets, monitoring funding allocations and expenditures, supporting forecasting and reporting activities, and ensuring investments are delivered within approved financial parameters.

• Partner cross-functionally to strengthen investment strategies, enhance reporting capabilities, and advance organizational objectives.

• Leverage data and stakeholder insights to identify trends, assess community needs, evaluate program effectiveness, and recommend opportunities to maximize the reach, equity, and impact of Jumpstart's investments.

• Support governance, risk management, and reporting, ensuring grant-making activities comply with organizational policies, standards, and funding requirements, while preparing insights, recommendations, and reports for senior leadership and Board-level discussions.

• Champion continuous learning and community engagement, collaborating with Relationship Managers, grantees, and sector partners to gather feedback, share knowledge, strengthen relationships, and inform future investment priorities.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team, providing coaching, mentoring, performance management, and professional development opportunities while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and impact.

What you bring:-

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities is a national charity committed to helping kids of all abilities in communities across Canada thrive through sport, recreation and play. At Jumpstart, we understand that for kids, the opportunity to play is about much more than getting active. Sport and being part of a team help foster self-esteem and teach valuable life skills like courage, confidence, and teamwork. Through the unwavering support of Canadian Tire Corporation, its Associate Dealers, employees and vendors, and through the generosity of a growing number of Canadians, Jumpstart continues to support kids and the community organizations that serve them. Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.