Our Background

At the University Hospital Foundation, we want to help people live longer, and better – especially those who would benefit from a new form of treatment, or life-saving surgery.As agents of hope, we boldly seek solutions to seemingly insurmountable challenges, matching the determination and purpose-driven intensity of the healthcare teams we support.

In the past ten years, generous donations from individuals and our corporate and strategic partners have contributed nearly $237 million dollars to advance world-leading patient care at the University of Alberta Hospital, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and Kaye Edmonton Clinic, as well as ground-breaking research at the University of Alberta.

Your Purpose

Reporting to the Director, Donor Funds & Impact, the Funding Officer is an integral member of the Funding Team, helping ensure donor funding drives meaningful impact within the health system. The role supports the full funding lifecycle through effective funding administration, monitoring, analysis, and reporting while ensuring alignment with donor intent, funding requirements, and Foundation priorities.

With UHF implementing a new Grant Management System, the Funding Officer will play an important role in leveraging funding, outcome, and impact information to identify trends, generate insights, and support informed decision-making. This is an opportunity for an analytical, proactive, and detail-oriented skilled who can look beyond the data, ask thoughtful questions, and bring forward ideas that strengthen how UHF understands, communicates, and maximizes the impact of donor funding.

Your Role

Your responsibilities will include:

- Funding Planning & Decision Support: Assess funding, project,



and financial information to support funding recommendations, monitoring, and reporting. Identify opportunities, risks, trends, and considerations that strengthen decision-making and funding impact.
- Funding Administration & Oversight: Lead the administration and monitoring of funded initiatives across the full funding lifecycle, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant distributions, project monitoring, reporting, and related funding requirements.
- Impact, Outcomes & Evaluation: Analyze project metrics, outcomes, and impact information using the Grant Management System and other sources. Translate data into meaningful insights that inform decision-making, demonstrate impact, and identify opportunities to strengthen future funding activities.
- Stewardship, Reporting & Communications: Develop explicit and meaningful funding, project, outcome, and impact information to support donor stewardship, reporting, communications, and other stakeholder materials. Collaborate across teams to ensure information is accurate, consistent, and compelling.
- Funding Agreements & Compliance: Administer and monitor funding agreements, amendments, and related documentation. Ensure donor intent, funding restrictions, policies, and other requirements are understood and appropriately reflected throughout the funding lifecycle.
- Stakeholder Relationships: Build robust working relationships with applicants,



funding recipients, health-system and academic partners, funders, vendors, and internal teams. Navigate both routine and complex funding discussions with professionalism, sound judgement, and a solutions-focused approach.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to strengthen funding processes, systems, data quality, and workflows. Bring forward ideas and recommendations that improve efficiency, decision-making, and UHF’s ability to understand and demonstrate the impact of donor funding.
- Team Contribution: Contribute across the full range of Funding Team activities, including analytical, administrative, transactional, system, reporting, project, and coordination work as organizational priorities evolve.

First Year – Measures of Success

- Fully integrated with the Funding Team and broader organization, building trusted relationships and collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Established ownership of grant-making and grant management processes across the funding lifecycle, demonstrating sound judgement and autonomy while ensuring accuracy, compliance, timeliness, and alignment with donor intent and Foundation priorities.
- Demonstrated the ability to independently analyze funding, project, outcome, and impact information, identifying meaningful trends and insights that support decision-making and strengthen UHF’s understanding of funding impact.
- Proactively contributed ideas, solutions, and recommendations that improve funding processes, systems, reporting, and the effective use of information within the new Grant Management System.

Qualifications

Education:

- Post-secondary education in

📌 Funding Officer (Edmonton)
🏢 University Hospital Foundation
📍 Edmonton