Job description

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.

About Reaching Home:
Reaching Home is part of Canada’s National Housing Strategy— Reaching Home: Canada's Homelessness Strategy is a community-based program aimed at preventing and reducing homelessness across Canada. This program provides funding to urban, Indigenous, rural, and remote communities to help them address their local homelessness needs.

The Role: Manager Community Reaching Home
The Community Manager, Reaching Home, is responsible for supporting the strategic partnership of two portfolios, and managing a diverse team of Program Officers to build and foster relationships with communities including current partners, potential partners and those with expertise in the homelessness serving sector.

The Community Manager collaborates with the Managing Director and Reaching Home team on strategic direction, administration, oversight and management of the Reaching Home program. This role will be involved in supporting the work with community partners to set strategic investment priorities and plans in consultation with sector partners (e.g., municipal, and provincial housing staff, Indigenous and equity deserving communities, grassroots community homeless groups, persons with lived and living experience, non-profits etc.). The Community Manager will manage, lead, mentor, coach and practice reciprocal learning with a team of program officers that deliver the administration of the program, guidance, support and reimbursement processes to Community Entities. They will both manage and work collaboratively with the Senior Community and Equity Officer Reaching Home to seek professional development opportunities in anti-racism, decolonization and being in right relations with equity denied communities. In addition, they will facilitate, host and support a Persons with Lived/Living Experience Advisory Group. This role will help implement a trauma informed, culturally relevant and equity lens for developing a highly diverse team who will support a community and equity centered grant proposal process from solicitation through to fund dispersal, contract management and reporting based on the principles of trust-based philanthropy. As an integral member of the Reaching Home team, the Community Manager may be assigned a portfolio of critical projects that require higher levels of relational nurturing and support for the distribution of resources.

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 the bigger picture and developing future leaders on your team. You are dedicated to applying REDI (Reconciliation, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) principles into life and work. You are solution focused offering senior leadership, your team and community partners well thought out solutions using a collaborative approach.

A typical day would involve any combination of:

• Provide leadership and support to the Program Officers to ensure strong relationship building and fostering, community engagement and delivery of the Reaching Home program in collaboration with the Program Manager, Finance and Risk
• Support the development and implementation of a Strategic / Community Plan that will support Reaching Home outcomes
• Collaborate with the Managing Director to support teambuilding and cohesion within the Reaching Home Program
• Support the CE and Managing Director with CAB governance and reporting
• Collaborate with the Special Projects Team, Data and Research Team and Demonstrating Value team to further advance the work already done on the homelessness toolkit and days of learning
• Foster community partnerships and manage high risk/high profile Reaching Home funded projects
• Provides support to the Managing Director with relation to the Community Entities (CE); currently the City of Abbotsford and region and Lu’ma Native Housing Society in Greater Vancouver
• May be requested to stand in place as proxy for the Managing Director at VCF’s Housing Security and Stability Roundtable or other functions related to the housing and homelessness sector and that of our community partners
• Identify and develop staff and community educational and capacity development initiatives and opportunities that strengthen the delivery and outcomes of the Reaching Home program
• Support the development of a highly engaged diverse and capable team to execute program plans /strategies and build great community relationships. This includes hiring and training staff and external contractors using a coaching approach.
• Collaborate with the Managing Director and Senior Community and Equity Officer to develop, lead, and participate in homelessness serving sector and organizational capacity development initiatives that strengthen the delivery and outcomes of the Reaching Home program including identifying, planning, and implementing engagement initiatives and activities
• Monitor community trends, needs and issues as well as legislative, policy and regulatory activity at all levels of government that may affect project inputs and outputs
• Support the review, improvements and screening and recruitment of the Community Advisory Board (CAB) and its members
• 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

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 in particular in housing and homelessness
• 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 your 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 bodies, staff, partners)
• Extensive experience or knowledge of housing or homelessness strategies
• Demonstrated experience executing plans and strategies
• People and project management skills from a trauma informed and equity-based practice

• Ability to navigate various political issues regarding the homelessness sector, policies and funding
• The capacity to hold a high degree of decision-making

• Experience in 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
• Person with lived experience
• French language an asset
• Experience or knowledge on climate justice, social innovation and/ or environmental sustainability

The Team: In this role, you will be reporting to the Managing Director, Reaching Home
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, who takes initiative, centers relationship building and takes ownership of their role.
Salary: Starting from $91,000 (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: $91,000.00 per year

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