Call for Applications: Grand Challenges Canada Investment Committee 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2025

Applications are open to hitch the Grand Challenges Canada Investment Committee 2025. The Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), one of many largest influence-first buyers on this planet, is presently looking for excellent candidates to hitch its Investment Committee.

GCC is devoted to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact. Funded by the Government of Canada and different companions, GCC funds innovators in low- and center-earnings nations (LMICs). These daring concepts combine science/technological innovation with social and enterprise innovation – generally known as Integrated Innovation. Under its new 2025 – 2030 Strategic Plan, GCC has an formidable objective to achieve 750M lives via life saving and life bettering improvements.

The Investment Committee is a standing committee of GCC’s Board of Directors. To assist improvements’ journey to scale and sustainability, the IC’s mandate is to make funding choices in alignment with the Board’s danger urge for food. Structured as grants, loans or fairness investments on the transition-to-scale part, the IC opinions administration’s funding proposals and identifies gaps, dangers and enhancements. Ultimately, the IC determines whether or not it might advocate these investments to the Board.

Eligibility

• Applicant ought to have a ardour for impacting essentially the most underserved and unserved LMIC communities via innovation.
• Relevant lived/work LMIC expertise in addition to intensive LMIC networks.
• Governance information and expertise equivalent to earlier IC expertise/publicity in different entities.
• Subject matter experience in ONE of the next:
  • Experience with humanitarian disaster areas; OR
  • Global well being expertise together with the intersection with local weather and well being; OR
  • Business experience within the international south equivalent to enterprise capital or entrepreneurial expertise
• A eager understanding of the scaling and sustainability alternatives/challenges in LMIC environments.

Commitments

• The IC expects a really excessive degree of dedication from its members. Quarterly conferences often run from 3-8 hours and are convened just about with an annual in-particular person 1-2 day assembly. IC members are volunteers and will not be compensated for their time. All journey bills are reimbursed by GCC in step with their Travel Policy. Terms are for 3 years with the choice of a renewal time period.

Application

Direct application in addition to nominations of potential candidates are being accepted.

• Direct Application: To apply instantly, please submit your curriculum vitae together with an announcement of curiosity of not more than 200 phrases.
• Nomination: To nominate a potential candidate, please ship an e mail with the candidate’s identify and a brief rationalization of why they’d be an ideal addition to the Investment Committee. They will observe up with nominators in regards to the candidate they intend to appoint.

All functions, nominations, and requests for extra data, could be despatched on to Akin Alaga, Chief Investment and Operating Officer, Grand Challenges Canada at [email protected]. Applications and nominations can be accepted till July 31, 2025.

For extra data, go to Grand Challenges Canada Investment Committee.