The Fellowship Program

Call for Placement Proposals
Impact Canada is now accepting Fellowship placement proposals for its 2020-21 cohort! 
 
Host organizations leveraging the Impact Canada Fellowship program have profitted from acquiring the skillsets of individuals with experience in rigorous program design and evaluation, as well as the possibility of building capacity and capabilities in their own organizations, and a connection back to Impact Canada and central agencies. Let this be you! 
 
Impact Canada’s centre of expertise is calling upon host organizations interested in benefitting from expert knowledge of practitioners in four discrete disciplines – Behavioural Insights, Impact Measurement, Innovative Finance, and Challenge Prizes – to submit their Fellowship placement proposal today!
 
Act quickly and submit your Fellowship placement proposal no later than March 20, 2020.  

Discipline Selection

*To advance, please select the discipline or disciplines you are interested in leveraging and the placement proposal form will expand.

To learn more about project work or initiatives Fellows have already contributed to, please visit: https://impact.canada.ca/fellowship/projects
 
Note: One placement proposal can be submitted for multiple business lines.

Your Details

*Name

*Email

*Organization

Please avoid using acronyms

Behavioural Science

Behavioural Science (BehSci) applies the findings of psychology, economics, and other social sciences to the work of government. Insights are tested using rigorous experimental methodologies to understand what works in driving better public policy outcomes for Canadians.

*To help us assess your placement proposal for a BehSci Fellow, we ask that you select all sub-categories that apply to your project work or initiative, in addition to providing some context.

Choose all that apply

*Please specify where the direction for your project or initiative stems from:

Choose all that apply

*In an effort to help us assess your placement proposal, we ask that you clearly articulate your business needs. Please provide a brief overview of the project work or initiative.

Your overview must:
  • speak to the problem you are trying to solve;
  • speak to the role you foresee a BI Fellow executing in the next 12-24 months to accomplish this work;
  • speak to the organization’s readiness for advancing the innovative portfolio;
  • explain why past/current approaches have failed to achieve objectives;
  • articulate conditions for success;
  • address anticipated results, including how results could be measured;
  • speak to the organizational context (i.e., project lead, team complement); and,
  • specify any key internal/external stakeholders involved in the project work or initiative.

*Total number of BI Fellows sought:

*Location of work:

Innovative Finance

Innovative Finance (IF) is the strategic blending of public, private, philanthropic, and not-for-profit capital and resources to achieve positive economic, social, and/or environmental outcomes. This includes the application of impact investing and social finance, and can also include the use of pay-for-success instruments, where payments are contingent on funding recipients achieving outcomes that can improve the lives of Canadians (e.g. impact bonds).

*To help us assess your placement proposal for an IF Fellow, we ask that you select all sub-stream categories that apply to your project work or initiative, in addition to providing some context.

Choose all that apply

*Please specify where the direction for your project or initiative stems from:

Choose all that apply

*In an effort to help us assess your placement proposal, we ask that you clearly articulate your business needs. Please provide a brief overview of the project work or initiative.

Your overview must:
  • speak to the problem you are trying to solve;
  • speak to the role you foresee an IF Fellow executing in the next 12-24 months to accomplish this work;
  • speak to the organization’s readiness for advancing the innovative portfolio;
  • explain why past/current approaches have failed to achieve objectives;
  • articulate conditions for success;
  • address anticipated results, including how results could be measured;
  • speak to the organizational context (i.e., project lead, team complement); and,
  • specify any key internal/external stakeholders involved in the project work or initiative.

*Total number of IF Fellows sought:

*Location of work:

Impact Measurement

Impact Measurement (IM) can include a range of experimental (randomized controlled trials) and quasi-experimental program evaluation methods designed to help attribute outcomes achieved to the delivery of a given program or intervention. In an investment context, it can mean helping to understand the social and/or environmental impacts achieved through social or impact investments, in addition to financial returns.

*To help us assess your placement proposal for an IM Fellow, we ask that you select all sub-categories that apply to your project work or initiative, in addition to providing some context.

Choose all that apply

*Please specify where the direction for your project or initiative stems from:

Choose all that apply

*In an effort to help us assess your placement proposal, we ask that you clearly articulate your business needs. Please provide a brief overview of the project or initiative.

Your overview must:
  • speak to the problem you are trying to solve;
  • speak to the role you foresee an IM Fellow executing in the next 12-24 months to accomplish this work;
  • speak to the organization’s readiness for advancing the innovative portfolio;
  • explain why past/current approaches have failed to achieve objectives;
  • articulate conditions for success;
  • address anticipated results, including how results could be measured;
  • speak to the organizational context (i.e., project lead, team complement); and,
  • specify any key internal/external stakeholders involved in the project work or initiative.

*Total number of IM Fellows sought:

*Location of work:

Challenge Prizes

Challenge Prizes (CP) refers to an incentive-based approach that rewards the first or best solution to a specific problem, based on a set of pre-determined criteria. The goal is not only to seek out the best ideas and solutions, but also to ensure that these innovative funding models demonstrate that tangible and measureable results can be achieved for Canadians.

*To help us assess your placement proposal for a CP Fellow, we ask that you select all sub-categories that apply to your project work or initiative, in addition to providing some context.

Choose all that apply

*Please specify where the direction for your project or initiative stems from:

Choose all that apply

*In an effort to help us assess your placement proposal, we ask that you clearly articulate your business needs. Please provide a brief overview of the project or initiative.

Your overview must:
  • speak to the problem you are trying to solve;
  • speak to the role you foresee a CP Fellow executing in the next 12-24 months to accomplish this work;
  • speak to the organization’s readiness for advancing the innovative portfolio;
  • explain why past/current approaches have failed to achieve objectives;
  • articulate conditions for success;
  • address anticipated results, including how results could be measured;
  • speak to the organizational context (i.e., project lead, team complement); and,
  • specify any key internal/external stakeholders involved in the project work or initiative.

*Total number of CP Fellows sought:

*Location of work:

Supplementary Questions

*Does your organization offer orientation or onboarding sessions to new employees?

*Would you be willing to consider a telework arrangement?

*Preferred start date

*Group(s) and level(s) sought

In order to help you identify the group and level (or groups and levels) that would be adequate to advance you work, we invite you to read thru the key activities we included to help distinguish the work activities that could be carried by either an EC04 or EC06 under the program.  Note: this is not an exhaustive list but an overview of the types of activities that could be carried out.

Choose all that apply:
*EC-04 is a new anticipatory role envisioned for the Fellowship program based on host organization feedback.

Acknowledgement

*By submitting this placement proposal, you hereby acknowledge the following:

As host manager, I acknowledge being responsible for:
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