Project Officer, Capacity Development - Ottawa, Canada - Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

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Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Description

Salary band

$63,650 - $80,150

Department

FCM Programs

Language

Bilingualism (English and French) is required

Duration

12 month contract

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) has been the national voice of municipal government since 1901.

FCM is dedicated to improving the quality of life in all communities by promoting strong, effective, and accountable municipal government.

FCM aspires to be an organization that is deeply respectful, collaborative, empowering and transparent in our work.

We have a commitment and passion for strengthening Canada by achieving results for our communities, our cities, and our workplace, and by sharing our knowledge and experience on the world stage, so that others may improve the quality of life in their communities.

The cornerstone FCM Program is the Green Municipal Fund (GMF), a $1 billion permanent endowment from the Government of Canada.

GMF helps local governments switch to sustainable practices faster.

Our unique mix of funding, resources and training gives municipalities the tools they need to build resiliency — and create better lives for Canadians.

As a leading catalyst for innovation, GMF offers funding (loans and grants) and knowledge for sustainable municipal initiatives designed to support communities to improve air, water, soil quality, and to protect the climate.

Through GMF, municipalities have built better transportation assets; constructed efficient and resilient buildings; diverted waste from landfill; made previously unusable land available for development; and improved soil and water quality.

You can find out more about how we're helping municipalities in this short video or by taking a read of GMF's Annual Report.

Major Purpose:

Reporting to the Manager, Capacity Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, the Project Officer (PO), Capacity Development will provide project management, coordination, administrative and logístical support to build municipal capacity, with a central focus on delivering the FCM-ICLEI Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program.

With a membership of about 500 municipalities and growing, PCP is focussed on guiding communities through a 5-step milestone program to support their efforts to reduce GHG emissions.

Work will also be specifically focused Capacity Development programming related to the GMF program streams of local climate action, energy, transportation, waste, and water.

The Project Officer will oversee the design, logistics and delivery of a number of municipal-oriented learning events (both online and in person) to mobilize best practice from within GMF's funding program and the Canadian municipal sector.

The role helps build the capacity of municipal staff, elected officials and key stakeholders to understand, undertake, deliver and scale-up successful practices and approaches.

Major activities include the development and delivery of learning and capacity building activities (online and in person), convening and facilitating peer learning and networks, supporting the development, delivery and measurement of capacity building for funded projects and collaboration municipalities and partners.

The Officer also assists with the integration and coordination of knowledge management, exchange and mobilization across other units of GMF and other FCM Programs.

Key Responsibilities:

Partners for Climate Protection Program:

Leads on delivering the program in partnership with ICLEI Canada, Local Governments for Sustainability:
Leads the PCP secretariat (combination of program staff delivering PCP at both FCM and ICLEI Canada);
Collaborates with the ICLEI Canada team for program service delivery and support of member inquiries;
Leads development of the annual program workplan in collaboration with the ICLEI team and Manager. GMF Capacity Development (M&E) and monitors progress of the annual workplan milestones and budget providing reports to Manager, GMF Capacity Development (M&E);
Hosts regular meetings with ICLEI Canada team for delivery of the program workplan;
Collaborates on production of the annual reporting.
Manages PCP member recruitment, relations and engagement:
Develops engagement strategies (including ways to increase francophone engagement);
Tracks and maintains up to date membership information using the FCM CRM system, assisting and processing milestones, issuing recognition, etc.;
Leads development of PCP knowledge resources and communications;
Oversees the operation, development and delivery of the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) milestone tool, quarterly PCP newsletter, media releases, ebulletins, inquiry response and Hub;
Manages the PCP website in collaboration with ICLEI team to ensure regular content updates, performance tracking and quality control;
Develops and improves delivery of resources and tools (including transferring the milestone workshops to online learning format);
Delivers workshops and presentations (including at Counci