Supervisor, Partnerships

JOB CLASSIFICATION: Supervisor, Partnerships - National Programs

PROGRAM/DEPARTMENT: Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

COMPANY: Skills for Change

LOCATION: 791 St. Clair Ave West, Toronto ON

CONTRACT TYPE: Contract (Management- Non-Unionized)

HOURS: 35 hours per week (Monday- Friday)

REPORTS TO: Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

START DATE: Immediately

END DATE: March 31, 2025

COMPANY:

Located on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, Skills for Change (SfC) is working towards advancing the Sustainable Development Goals for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Named Charity Village's Best Non-Profit Employer - Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and winner of the 2021 Canada Volunteer Awards for Innovation, our organization is committed to reducing poverty, improve mental health, eliminating gender-based violence, building community, eradicating systemic racism, and settling and creating sustainable communities for all immigrants, refugees, and underserved communities. Start your career with SfC and join our 40-year history of creating innovative programming to build welcoming and equitable communities.

GENERAL ACCOUNTABILITY:

With 40 years of operations, Skills for Change is a highly respected non-profit charity with a province-wide reputation for pioneering programs that respond to shifting immigration and workplace trends and lead to employment. We offer a range of accelerated programs for newcomers to Canada, immigrants, refugees, women, youth, seniors, LGBTQ+ and Black Canadians. We have multiple locations across the GTA and serve 20,000 clients annually. We believe we are in the best position to provide thought leadership through evidence-based programming, impact stories, and proactive policy advocacy using knowledge mobilization products.

Skills for Change is a non-profit organization delivering services nationally. We are seeking a Manager, National Programs to lead our efforts in forging and managing corporate and community partnerships that support our organizational outcomes and maximize programmatic impact, with a particular focus on our Women in Skilled Trades program.

PROGRAM NATURE AND SCOPE:

Skills for Change believes the future of programming can be strengthened through collaborative partnerships. We are looking for a leader to create systematic, process-driven approaches to partner outreach and relationship management for the organization, bridging SfC’s skilled immigrant talent pool, with a specific focus on Women in the Skilled Trades. We are looking for someone with experience in the social impact sector who can help us transform our work,grow our team and move from a transactional approach of partnerships toa relational one with our corporate and community partners. We are looking for someone with a collaborative spirit who can work with the senior leadership team to align internal goals with new and existing partner relationships.

IDEAL CANDIDATE HAS:

• Believes in the power of social programs to help people build a better life.
• A passion for advocating immigrant talent and their access to economic prosperity.
• Flexible, responsive, and open to new ways of thinking and problem-solving and a willingness to learn.
• Believes that collaboration is the name of the game to get things done.
• Has the drive to lead teams to build meaningful stakeholder partnerships.
• The ability to thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoys working as a team.
• Innovative and creative thinking competencies to generate maximum exposure for SfC’s programs.
• Experience developing and managing budgets with knowledge and understanding of financial management and reporting
• People management experience, hiring, training, developing, and managing performance.
• Experience in program design, writing funding proposals and policy development.
• Proven negotiation skills and ability to communicate in cross-cultural environments.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Corporate and Community Partnerships

• Develop and successful delivery of a stakeholder engagement strategy.
• Develop and lead initiatives to build and strengthen partnerships across various industries, with a particular emphasis on cultivating relationships and creating mentorship and talent pipelines with partners to support our program delivery for employment and trades programs.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with corporate and community partners and networks on a national level, to develop employment, mentoring, funding and other opportunities for partnership, and to secure and mobilize employer champions.
• Leads the monitoring and assessment of partner attitudes and stakeholder concerns in order to develop and implement proactive protocols to enhance collaborative relationships with proponents and stakeholders.
• Develops recommendations for implementation to strengthen existing strategies related to engagement with stakeholders.
• Convert leads into long term partnerships, focused on creating talent pipelines and collaborative initiatives.
• Assist in the development and maintain tracking information and reporting of partnership efforts.
• Lead a team to coordinate the Women in Skilled Trades advisory work and partner forums, recognition events, networking events and knowledge mobilization efforts etc.
• Stay abreast of market-demand trends, changes in various sectors/industries, and aggregate and share information relevant to inform in-demand skills and education training.
• Identify and disseminate scalable ways to deliver programming for training and career-related development and services and serve as a connector and accelerant of programming through partner connections.
• Identify, target, and initiate population-relevant partner relationships.
• Develop and strengthen ties between Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships and Skills for Change programs and services.
• Provide leadership and guidance to staff on engaging partners and the financial support programs delivered by SfC.

People Management

• Supervisor a team, including coaching, training, mentoring, and development.
• Recruit, train, support, develop, promote, guide, and manage employee performance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, Marketing, Public Relations, or related field is mandatory. Master’s degree considered an asset.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience working in a leadership position in the corporate, nonprofit or private sector and within one of the following functions: marketing, sales, partnerships.
• Strong understanding of the settlement and employment sector, with expertise in development corporate and community partners.
• Experience in identifying, developing and managing innovative partnerships, strategic alliances and relationships both in the private and public sectors such as university, industry, nonprofit etc
• A clear vulnerable sector check is required.

PLEASE SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO: hr@skillsforchange.org

Skills for Change provides learning and training opportunities for immigrants, refugees and equity seeking groups to access and fully participate in the workplace and wider community to persons with disabilities to newcomers to Canada (including refugees) to Indigenous peoples to members of a visible minority to children or youth to women of all ages including seniors to the LGBTQ2 community.

Skills for Change offers accommodation for applicants with disabilities in each stage of the hiring process. If you are contacted regarding a job opportunity, please advise if you require accommodation. This document is available in alternate format on request. We thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.