The Fellowship Program
Impact Canada’s centre of expertise, housed in the Government of Canada’s Privy Council Office, conceptualized and implemented the Fellowship program to attract new skills and talent in four specialized areas – Behavioural Insights, Impact Measurement, Innovative Finance, and Challenge Prizes – with the aim to increase capacity and upskill the existing workforce.
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Impact Canada: The Fellowship Program (Transcript)
The Impact Canada Fellowship program attracts external talent with specialized skills in four disciplines: Behavioural insights, Impact Measurement, Innovative finance, and Challenge Prizes.
Unlike traditional government processes, we run entire campaigns within only 3 months. Our fastest one was in just 42 days!
We’re focused on identifying the right people with the right skills and pairing them with organizations advancing key government priorities.
The Fellowship program benefits both the successful candidates and our partners. On one hand, candidates join a growing network of fellows and apply their skills to exciting projects. On the other, our partners gain valuable in-house expertise. This helps build public sector capacity to deliver the best policies and programs for Canadians.
Interested in hosting a Fellow? Don’t miss out on placement opportunities!
Want to become a Fellow? Go to Impact.canada.ca/fellowship.
Rigorous recruitment processes run in 90 days
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01 Application
Impact Canada assess applicants on technical skills. Impact Canada has developed a tailored application to assess one's technical skills.
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02 Written exam
Applicants who successfully respond to the intake questions are invited to write an exam. The written exam is a deep-dive assessment of one’s ability to apply their technical skills in a particular business line.
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03 Interview
Applicants who are successful with the written exam are invited to an interview. The interview aims to assess one’s personal suitability (soft skills) to help identify the right fit for the Fellowship.
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04 References and security
Applicants who are successful in the interview move onto the references and security verification. The references are the final assessment phase used to assess one’s personal suitability and where necessary, concrete examples of the applicant’s technical skills may be further assessed.
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05 Pre-qualication
Expert practitçonners pre-qualify in the Fellowship at the EC-06 group and level ($92,483 - $107, 258). Fellows are eligible for placement upon issuance of their secret security clearance.
Departments win.
Host organizations leveraging the Impact Canada Fellowship program benefit 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 drawing on the expert knowledge of subject matter experts.
Fellows win.
Subject matter experts hired under the Fellowship program benefit from a connection to a cohort of other program subject matter experts tackling complex policy issues across multiple federal organizations.
Unique to the Fellowship program, subject matter experts receive practical project management and leadership from their host organization, and continued leadership, mentoring and coaching from Impact Canada’s centre of expertise.
This approach provides an opportunity to build cross-sectoral and interdepartmental partnerships and share leading edge practices.