Special Events Coordinator

Location
- 535 Hornby Street, Vancouver, BC & remote within BC
- Posting Period
- July 17, 2025 - August 8, 2025
Job DescriptionThis position will work closely with the Associate Director, Special Events and Events Specialist on all aspects of the Fund Development Department’s special events. The YWCA’s major event is the Women of Distinction Awards and quarterly Inner Circle Impact Series Events are also planned each year.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- The Special Events Coordinator will assist with the following:

- Coordinating senior level volunteers on committees and during events
- Prospecting new sponsors; maintaining and enhancing relationships with current sponsors
- Incorporating and overseeing organizational fundraising strategies (auction, raffle, solicitation) into events
- Work with AV vendors to coordinate audio visual aspects of the event

**What you’ll need**:

- Minimum 6 months events experience
- Post-secondary education
- Experience with enhancing sponsor and donor relationships a bonus
- Detail oriented and ability to handle multi-tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work independently and with a team
- Strong organizational and critical thinking skills with an ability to prioritize, plan and problem solve
- Strategic, proactive work style
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to write a variety of documents, such as proposals, reports and correspondence
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel)
- A valid clear criminal record check (including working with vulnerable populations) is required.

**Bonus qualities (but not required)**:

- Driver’s license
- Video production or AV knowledge
- Experience with Adobe InDesign
- Marketing and design experience an asset
- Experience with Raiser’s Edge an asset

**What we offer**:
We offer our eligible employees the following benefits as part of their total rewards package:

- Extended medical and dental benefits
- A defined benefit pension plan (MPP)
- Pregnancy, parental and adoption leave top up
- 15 vacation days and 3 personal days, in addition to paid sick leave (pro-rated)
- Flexible working arrangements for applicable positions
- Employee Family Assistance Program, a confidential and voluntary support service for employees and their eligible family members
- A workplace that prioritizes employee health, safety and well-being, including many learning and growth opportunities such as our employee mentorship program and three equity committees that help to support our goals towards achieving meaningful equity and inclusion.
- Free staff membership to our Health + Fitness Centre
- Discounts at our YWCA Hotel
- Priority in YWCA Child Care Centres

**Pay Rate: $28.05**
How to ApplyIf you're seeking a workplace where your values align with your work, and where every voice drives meaningful change, we’d love to hear from you. Please submit your resume and cover letter by end of day** Friday, August 8, 2025 at 5:00pm** to:
**Jena Fair, Associate Director, Fund Development & Special Events (she/her)**

Want to learn more about working at the YWCA? Explore our careers page.

We respectfully acknowledge that our main office and many of our programs are located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and that our work across British Columbia spans the territories of more than 200 First Nations. We also acknowledge the First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples who live in our communities.

YWCA Metro Vancouver is committed to truth and reconciliation. This includes understanding the truth and impact of our shared colonial history, making positive changes within our organization and taking actions that advance safety, justice and equity for Indigenous peoples.