Community Program Coordinator

**Job Description**: : **About the Institute for Community Prosperity**: In April of 2015, the Institute for Community Prosperity was launched. Formerly the institute for Nonprofit Studies, "Community prosperity" refers to the conditions within which human potential flourishes. On September 25th 2015, Canada joined countries across the globe in adopting a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This is a global commitment to achieve community prosperity, that challenges not just governments, but business, civil society and academia. We believe that our task within higher education is to ensure that students have access to learning - skills, knowledge, research, and opportunities to build confidence and character - so that they can make transformative change within their communities. This means flourishing as learners, changemakers and human beings, more ready to build community, end poverty, protect the planet and create prosperity for all. **Trico Changemakers Studio**: The Trico Changemakers Studio brings together community organizations and students immersed in Calgary’s social innovation milieu to work alongside each other and collaborate on new innovative ideas that address social and/or environmental challenges. The space serves as a community co-working space, social R&D space, and studio space for MRU students enrolled in any faculty on campus working on social innovation and changemaking challenges. **About the Role**: Reporting to the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity, the Community Program Coordinator (CPC) plays a key role in initiatives related to social labs, coordination of community programs and support for the Institute in general. Working with the Social Lab team, the Community Program Coordinator (CPC) will support all community engagement activities related to labs, including workshops, interviews, and engagement events. This position is also responsible for conducting and supporting research related to labs, including conducting interviews, focus groups, secondary data collection, and literature reviews. This role also supports the coordination and administration of emerging community projects such as the Early Childhood Literacy Network. This is a conditionally funded full-time position, commencing May 19, 2025 and ending May 08, 2026. **Responsibilities**: **Responsibility 1: SOCIAL LABS - COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT** - Support all aspects of community engagement for social labs and other facilitation projects, including logistics, set up, note taking, transcription, follow up communications. - Conduct interviews and convene workshops related to social labs and other facilitation projects. - Work closely with the Lab team including lead facilitators, lab manager, and visual designer to ensure community engagement activities are planned, designed and executed in an effective, efficient manner. - Support on-site, in-person engagement activities. - Lead the collection, synthesis and analysis of data for evaluation and reporting purposes. **Responsibility 2: SOCIAL LABS - RESEARCH + KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION** - Conduct research and analysis related to social labs, including interviews, focus groups, secondary data collection and literature reviews. - Assist in the production of Institute publications, reports and case studies including knowledge gathering, synthesis, writing and design review. - Coordinate knowledge dissemination activities to share learnings and outcomes from the Literacy Lab. **Responsibility 3: Early Childhood Learning Network - COMMUNICATIONS + ENGAGEMENT** - Support all aspects of community engagement for the Network including room bookings, pre-engagement invitations and activities, note taking, transcription, and follow up communications. This includes but is not limited to supporting Trustee meetings, full Network meetings, NetWORDing events, and the Big Book Sale. - Support on-site, in-person engagement activities as required including the Big Book Sale. - Work closely with the Network Director to ensure all community engagement activities are planned, designed and executed in an effective, efficient manner. - Working closely with the Network Director, support the Communications and Storytelling Node to create and execute a communications plan for the Network. - Establish and maintain communication channels for the Network including the creation/posting of content, engaging with users and fostering relationships, and responding to comments, messages, and inquiries. - Support the Left Unread campaign as required. **Responsibility 4: Early Childhood Learning Network - PROGRAM SUPPORT + ADMINISTRATION** - Conduct research and analysis related to childhood literacy and collective impact to ensure that diverse lived experiences, successful practices, and economic and social trends are heard and considered by Network Trustees and others involved in the wider collective impact effort - Assist in the produc