Program Analyst, Global Health Innovation

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. We are committed to our core values of seeking impact, promoting

equity, and being good partners – as well as to being accountable and caring for our work and each

other.

One of the largest impact-first investors in the world, Grand Challenges Canada has supported a pipeline

of over 1,700 innovations in more than 100 countries. Since 2010, innovations supported by GCC have

reached more than 80 million people with life-saving or life-improving initiatives who would otherwise

not have had access.

The Global Health Innovation (GHI) area of impact is the first and largest at GCC. GHI’s current

investments focus on mental health, maternal and newborn health, sanitation, access to comprehensive

sexual and reproductive health and rights including safe abortion, and include portfolios of innovative

service delivery, digital solutions and medical products. We provide grant and concessionary risk capital,

along with technical advisory, to support innovators through seed and transition to scale funding.

Through the Stars in Global Health portfolio, GCC provides catalytic investment to innovators who are

working on proof-of-concept ideas and span a diverse range of thematic areas.

Program Analyst Role

Working closely with other members of the Global Health Innovation program, the Program Analyst’s

key responsibilities will be to :

• Support efficient, high quality programmatic activities for the Stars in Global Health portfolio

throughout all stages of the funding process, from sourcing to negotiation and portfolio

management

agreements

programmatic milestones, innovator outreach to fulfill reporting requirements, triaging reports for

approvals

processing contract amendments

data entry and data management

behalf of innovators

Qualifications

development, social finance / impact investing)

not limited to the Microsoft Office suite)

within a team

People from historically excluded communities with lived experiences in relevant thematic areas

are encouraged to apply. People with lived experience and / or work experience in the communities or countries we are supporting are especially encouraged to apply.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, people of colour, people from LGBTQ2S+ and disabilities communities are less likely to apply to jobs when they do not meet every qualification. At Grand Challenges Canada, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, authentic, and accountable workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply, as you may be the ideal candidate we are looking for.

Location and Work Requirements :

approved exceptions, GCC staff are to live in or near the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and available to travel to, and work from the Toronto main office, as business operational needsrequire. Any expenses related to travel and or relocating to Toronto are the sole responsibility of the employee and will not be reimbursed by GCC.

(program reviewed annually)

Term

Please submit your resume and cover letter here .

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