About VCF:
Vancity Community Foundation was founded on the belief that if we work together, we will have the resources we need to build a thriving, vibrant community.
Everything we do is an investment in community. We believe that if all our assets are invested in building healthy communities, where cooperative principles and practices are flourishing and social justice and environmental sustainability are centered, the world will be a better place and our community well-being will be enhanced.
Our vision, shared with Vancity, is a transformed economy that protects the earth and guarantees equity for all.

• We implement cooperative principles and practices
• We believe in social justice and financial inclusion
• We actively work towards Reconciliation and being an anti-racist organization
• We are committed to environmental sustainability
• We are a Living Wage Employer
• We value Reconciliation, collaboration, innovation, integrity, equity, and community.

The Role: Director of Community Programs
The Director of Community Programs is responsible for the development, implementation, contractual oversight, evaluation, strategic, and operational priorities of all programs held under VCF. Currently, these include BC Living Wage Campaign for Families, BC Rent Bank, Reaching Home, and Surrey Homelessness and Housing Society and Fund. Additionally, you will provide oversight of all sponsored relationships where VCF provides a level of financial and/or operational resources to registered non-profits seeking charitable status. These currently include the Ethos Lab, Exchange Inner City, and Single Mothers Alliance BC.
Within this role you will work closely with each program team to optimize project management resources to meet respective deliverables and achieve maximum impact. You will look for and coordinate common threads for collaboration between programs, deliver innovative community-centered services and resources, model reciprocal learning and aim for systemic change that addresses root causes of inequality. As a member of the senior leadership team, you will help set the organization’s community impact goals, and provide guidance for VCF’s strategic priorities. You will work with the Communications and Advocacy team to deliver project related communications to target audiences creating community connections in the ways that they can access and understand.
You describe yourself as a collaborator. You build, foster, and navigate relationships with care and intention. You have a desire to support your coworkers in better understanding how their efforts fit into a bigger picture. You are dedicated to applying REDI (Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) principles into life and work. You are known for your ability to identify risk factors, and their relative impacts to the work, your teams, and goals and plan deliberative steps forward.
A typical day would involve any combination of:

• Develop and maintain management systems and processes to monitor and report on all program activities in alignment with VCF core strategies
• Coordinate and optimize project management resources so that funded programs meet agreed upon deliverables and achieve maximum impact
• Seek opportunities to solicit or leverage additional resources and build valuable collaborative relationships to enable VCF to deliver on its strategic objectives
• Develop and manage a highly engaged diverse and capable team to execute departmental plans/strategies and build great relationships with partners

• Monitor and maintain relationships with key program partners so that expectations are balanced against commitments, community impact is maximized and relationships are optimized

• Support the recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and training of staff within each program
• Monitor community trends, needs and issues as well as legislative, policy and regulatory activity at all levels of government that may affect each program’s inputs and outputs
• Oversee budgetary expectations and demands, and contractual agreements
• Continuously look to mitigate bias in processes of adjudication and delivery in accordance with VCF’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Provide leadership, as part of a team, on crisis communications and organizational reputational issues
• Reciprocal learning from and with teams and staff of the different programs

• You are:*

• A relationship builder – you can adapt your interpersonal and intercultural skills to various target audiences inclusive of those from equity denied groups and are proactive in starting & developing key relationships in all relevant sectors. You can recognize differences of opinion, bring them out for discussion into the open, and look for win-win solutions.
• A subject-matter expert and learner – you possess significant knowledge in your functional area and areas that can impact your work. You ensure to keep updated with the most relevant developments in your space
• A solid researcher – you are critical, community oriented, and explore things beyond the surface. You are resourceful and utilize the tools at your disposal to discover solutions, practices and knowledge that will assist you and your communications efforts
• A project manager – you can shift from big-picture to detail effortlessly and use your planning & organizational skills to achieve multiple objectives in a logical sequence
• A people leader – you work effectively with people and can recognize own limitations and boundaries. You use non-oppressive styles and methods, and organize thoughts and ideas clearly when communicating with staff
• An excellent communicator – you use your written, spoken & interpersonal, intercultural skills to communicate potentially complex material effectively to your target audiences.

You Have:

• Extensive experience that demonstrates your ability to connect with diverse networks (i.e., IBPOC communities, levels of government, Indigenous groups and political leaders, media, governance, staff, partners)
• Experience people leading and project managing within community program administration at increasing levels of responsibility
• Experience and exposure to working within a non-profit environment
• Exceptional time management, and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability for research and data analysis
• Aspiration to work within an anti-oppressive and anti-racist organization and have demonstrated experience applying REDI principles

Bonus Points:

• Connection to active networks of likeminded individuals, organizations and or foundations working towards becoming anti-racist
• Experience or knowledge on housing or homelessness strategies, climate justice, social innovation and or environmental sustainability
• Trauma informed practices

The Team: In this role, you will be reporting into the CEO
Work Location: This competitively rewarded role will enjoy remote working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from your Greater Vancouver based home office and in or with communities that we serve. For this reason, we are looking for someone autonomous, takes initiative, centres relationship building and takes ownership of their role.

Salary: Starting at $121,000 (flexible based on experience)
Posting Deadline: Until filled
To learn more about VCF, please visit https://www.vancitycommunityfoundation.ca/

Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes resume verification, credit check, and criminal record check. Exemptions requested under Human Rights law will be addressed through Vancity’s accommodations processes.
We encourage those who identify from groups who have been structurally excluded (Indigenous, Black and Racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, Disability communities, Non-Binary, Trans and Women Identified communities) to apply.
We actively work to foster an environment where structurally excluded identities are valued, respected and honoured. We have a dedicated Employee Resource Group (ERG) that provides a safe space for staff to connect and access support, and to inform and advise organizational leadership on priority issues to meet the needs of our diverse staff. Please contact us at recruitment@vancity.com_ if you require any accommodation or support during the recruitment process._

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience.
As part of this commitment we are taking action to learn more about our applicants and ask that you complete a short and anonymous Diversity Survey that will influence the design and execution of Vancity’s overall DEIR initiatives and programs, one of which aims to advance our commitment to become a financial force for change and build a fair world. Please click this hyperlink to complete the Diversity Survey. Your responses are collected anonymously and will never be linked to your job application.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $121,000.00 per year

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