Officer, Grants & Community Development, Permanent Full-Time

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Officer, Grants & Community Development, Permanent Full-Time

Lac La Biche County is an organization driven by principles surrounding Excellence, Communication, Safety and Wellness, Collaboration, and Environmental Sustainability. Our employees enjoy the charm of working in the Lakeland Region, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city while still being able to enjoy a diverse, fast paced and fulfilling work environment. Our community is known to be one of the most diverse and unique communities in Alberta. Not only is it rich in history and culture, but it is also surrounded by forests, parks, lakes, and golden sand beaches!

We continuously strive to remain an employer of choice by offering a strong health and safety program, competitive pay, amazing benefits, opportunities for professional development, as well as many wellness initiatives that support a work/life balance. We also take pride in maintaining high standards surrounding equity, diversity, and inclusion in our workplace.

Purpose of the position

The position:

• Leads, manages and administers all grant acquisitions and administration through various municipal, provincial, federal and private sector streams on behalf of the County
• Manages the Rural Renewal and Rural Entrepreneur Streams including promotion, application intakes, stakeholder engagement, and coordination of economic development initiatives
• Develops and maintain policies, procedures, and new grant and community developing funding initiatives requested by senior leadership
• Assists the General Manager with the annual work plan
• Oversees financial controls over expenditures, maintains records, and ensures compliance with grants and community funding budgets
• Serves as a subject matter expert and keeps up-to-date on trends and provides advice, support and guidance to management, staff, project teams, and internal/external stakeholder committees as required
• Prepares and delivers status updates, financial and program reports to major funding programs senior leadership team
• Provides supervision, performance management, training and development, mentoring, and recruitment of direct report staff
• Prepares and submits year end financial related to grants and funding streams

Want to be a part of our County team?

To be successful in this position, you will possess:

• Degree or diploma in Business/Public Administration, Commerce, or a related field
• 3 to 5 years related work experience
• Superior knowledge of local government or public sector practices and procedures
• Superior knowledge of grant development, administration, life cycle, and grant writing
• Excellent knowledge of program, policy and procedure development
• Exceptional communication, interpersonal, public relations, conflict management, judgement, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Be proficient in working with computer programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).

Position Details:

• Permanent full-time
• Based on 1820 hours annually with a 7 hour work day, Monday to Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Additional hours may be required in the evenings or weekends for emergency duties or special projects.
• Comprehensive benefits package - 15 vacation days, 12 personal health leave days, short term and long term disability 100% all employer paid Sunlife extended health and dental plan, LAPP municipal pension plan, all access pass to Bold Centre Multiplex & Pool, Employee & Fam,ily Assistance Program, Training & Development Opportunities, Personal/Health Spending Account
• We offer a competitive salary based on market rates

I f this sounds like you, please proceed with your application!

For more information regarding specific position responsibilities and required abilities/ qualifications, please refer to the attached (if applying outside of our Lac La Biche County website, the full will be available once you start your application process)

Competition Number: 31-GCO- 25

Closing Date: Open until suitable candidate is found.

If applying outside of our Lac La Biche County website, interested candidates are invited to submit their resume by clicking on the following link:

Candidates from this competition may be used to fill future vacancies at the same classification level within the next 6 months.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.