Vice President, Grants and Community Initiatives

**VICE PRESIDENT, GRANTS & COMMUNITY INITIATIVES**

**Full-Time Permanent, Hybrid Eligible**

**British Columbia**
- Vancouver Foundation acknowledges that we carry out our work on the lands of Indigenous nations throughout colonial British Columbia. Our office is located on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples._

**About Us**

Vancouver Foundation is a community foundation that serves Vancouver and all of BC. We bring together the generosity of donors with the ideas and energy of people and communities across the province. Every year we fund a diverse mix of grants, both large and small, that help to build healthy, vibrant, equitable, and inclusive communities. Considered a leader in responsive grantmaking and systems change, Vancouver Foundation is the most significant funder of charities in BC outside of government.

As a community foundation, we're committed to ensuring everyone has a place in our mission. We are on a journey to actively align all aspects of our work — both internally and externally — to our commitment to equity, inclusion, and a more just society.

**About You**

As a seasoned professional with experience in the social purpose sector, you have a broad understanding of community issues, how they impact diverse and equity-seeking communities, and how to mobilize resources and engage stakeholders to take action. You have education and/or experience in trust-based philanthropy, granting, community initiatives, and think deeply and creatively when it comes to bringing the community in to the work. You have successfully managed teams and demonstrated success in building a staff culture based on a commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and possess a demonstrated ability to build consensus within multidisciplinary groups. You bring at least 10 years of experience in a complex role which may include involvement at an executive leadership level delivering on granting and community initiatives within the social purpose sector. You have excellent writing, public speaking, and presentation skills.

You are ready to join us as we explore and shape how Vancouver Foundation might do even more to align justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion with our culture and our mission.

**About the Position**

Vancouver Foundation believes that the knowledge and abilities to advance our core purpose resides and is created in the communities we serve, and that we need to increase our capacity to understand and mobilize around community priorities. The Vice President delivers on the strategic priorities of the department and provide ongoing support for a highly capable and experienced team. In addition to leading a dedicated team of 27, the Vice President works closely with groups in the community, bringing key learnings back to the executive team and promoting the inspiring work of the department. This position represents an opportunity to significantly impact community initiatives and philanthropic efforts across British Columbia through strategic leadership and innovative grantmaking.

The Vice President serves as a key strategist working closely with the President and CEO, the executive team, the Board, senior leadership, and community to advance the granting and community initiatives work of Vancouver Foundation.

**Main Responsibilities**

**Granting & Community Initiatives**
- Direct the planning and development, implementation and evaluation of grant programs and community initiatives
- Review, create, implement, and manage policies, procedures, processes, and systems for grant and funding related initiatives
- Facilitate development, management, and implementation of best practices and new innovation for granting
- Mentor, guide, and manage the performance of direct reports and the department
- Continue and evolve Vancouver Foundations commitment to trust-based philanthropy and systems change with an emphasis on community engagement
- Foster a culture that strives for results, wellbeing, adaptability to change, and collaboration
- Develop and manage overall granting budget, including recommendations on disbursement of funds to respective granting areas that support Vancouver Foundation's mission
- Identify, support, and lead development of community initiatives that advance right relations, decolonization, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion to sustainability
- Develop a process and strategy to launch sustainable Community Initiatives into the hands of the community
- Lead the development and management policies and systems related to grants and funding

**Strategy**
- Advocate for the continued advancement of right relations, decolonization, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion across Vancouver Foundation's work
- Monitor and identify emerging community issues and provide recommendations to inform the Foundation's granting priorities on these issu