We are a compassionate, collaborative and highly-skilled team that is committed to supporting organizations making positive impact across the country. Learn more about our opportunities for employment and what it is like to work at McConnell.
The McConnell Foundation is a private Canadian foundation that strives for a resilient, inclusive and sustainable society that can successfully address its complex challenges.
Our dynamic team works to support our partners to create positive change in three focus areas: communities, reconciliation and climate. We do so through funding and investment partnerships, strengthening capabilities, convening, and collaborating with the public, private and non-profit sectors.
Everyone at McConnell plays a role in advancing our mission. Our small team is made up of skilled professionals from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, with a shared dedication to creating positive change in their communities. The complex challenges our mission presents require diligence and timely action – two important elements of what it means to work at McConnell.
We are incredibly proud of the impact our partners achieve, but we also believe that how we work together is as important as what we do.
We seek to create a collaborative and inclusive workplace, that operates on trust and accountability. We are an organization that deeply values learning: we endeavour to create opportunities to help our employees reach their potential. Our aim is to create a work environment that reflects the inclusive, resilient and sustainable society we are working to advance.
We have over 85 years of history contributing to positive impact across the country. We partner with and support inspiring organizations working to address issues of generational importance. Working at McConnell means being a part of generating positive change for society.
We provide a sector-leading compensation structure along with an employer–matching pension plan. Your physical and mental wellbeing are also important to us, which is why we offer an executive-level health plan, a health spending account, as welll as immediate access to vacations and paid holiday time off to all staff.
We will support you on developing the skills you need to meet your career goals. With Reconciliation as a core focus areas, we also commit to accompanying you on your personal reconciliation journey through trainings, workshops and learning opportunities.
Work-life balance, accessibility and sustainability are an important part of working at McConnell. Alongside team–building opportunities and summer hours, we offer flexible work arrangements and schedules wherever possible.
We are seeking consultant(s) with a mandate to refine our Communities focus area strategy. We have two main objectives: 1) To deepen our knowledge on how systemic issues uniquely affect equity-deserving groups, and 2) Informed by the above, to refine our three strategic priorities (public policy, collaborative action and internal practices). Find out more.
The McConnell Foundation is working towards strengthening our culture of inclusion and strives to build a team that reflects our mission for a more inclusive, resilient and sustainable society. We encourage applications from Indigenous people, Black people, racialized people, women, non-binary and gender nonconforming people, people from the 2SLGBTQQIA+ community, people with disabilities (visible and invisible) and newcomers to Canada.
Our recruitment team will consider equity status throughout the recruitment process, so we invite members from equity deserving groups to self-identify in their application.
Our work environment and hiring process is inclusive and accessible to anyone with unique needs in terms of accessibility and accommodations. We will support you throughout the life cycle of your employment with us. If you require any accommodation in the hiring process, please email accessibility@mcconnellfoundation.ca so that we can create the necessary conditions so that you can participate fully in the hiring process. All information received in relation to equity status and accommodation will be kept confidential.
