Who we are

Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) provides ideas, resources and a proven approach to partner organizations across Canada to create Community Food Centres that bring people together to grow, cook, share, and advocate for good food. CFCC also works with the broader food movement to build greater capacity for impact and to empower communities to work toward a healthy and fair food system. 

Why work with us?

CFCC was founded in 2012 to drive the development of a new approach to food in low-income communities. We believe food is a powerful community-building tool that can bring people together around shared goals, build skills and physical and mental health, and create the opportunity for greater equity in many communities. The Communications and Marketing Manager is a new role that is being created to help increase CFCC’s profile as a leader and innovator in the non-profit food space, to expand our capacity to communicate with donors and stakeholders, to engage new key influencers and audiences, and to support fundraising and communications staff at partner Community Food Centres.

Who are we looking for?

The Marketing and Communications Manager will work with the Director of Communications to execute the organization’s strategic communications plan. The ideal candidate will be committed, creative, assiduous, flexible, strategic, and self-motivated; an excellent writer with a flair for storytelling; a master content planner; a lover of research; interested in exploring varied communications platforms and storytelling tools including digital, video and audio; and comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment. He/she will have a demonstrated interest in food and social justice issues, a keen design eye, and a good sense of humour.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the planning and execution of CFCC’s editorial and content strategy; 
• Manage and expand CFCC’s online presence and digital communications, from strategy to content creation to analytics;
• Contribute to the creation of key organizational documents and marketing collateral such as cases for support, annual reports, etc.;
• Assist with a website redesign project to start in 2015; 
• Contribute to the execution of national and local fundraising and awareness campaigns; 
• Support fundraising and third-party events, including the expansion of the national Restaurants for Change fundraising event;
• Support partner Community Food Centres and other affiliated organizations through the development of locally relevant tools, templates, trainings, guidelines, and policies; ensure a level of message consistency across all partner materials; provide advice as needed.

Qualifications

• University degree in journalism, communications or related field;
• 3+ years of communications experience in a non-profit environment or related field;
• Ability to write clearly, concisely and persuasively for a variety of audiences (donors and funders, government, media, general public) and platforms (donor communications, web, social media, etc.);
• Skilled at copyediting and proofreading;
• Experience creating compelling web and digital content and developing/executing successful social media and digital marketing campaigns (experience managing web development projects an asset);
• Experience generating media interest and coverage for issues-based stories and events;
• Experience using Adobe CS and Microsoft Publisher to execute simple but elegant graphic design projects; 
• Comfortable with many of the following: Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Box, Drupal, WordPress, Adobe CS, MailChimp. Familiarity with Salesforce and video and audio editing software an asset.

Position details: Full-time, permanent; 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Start date: January

Please email your cover letter and resume to work at cfccanada.ca with “Communications and Marketing Manager” in the subject line by Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 5 pm. Interview scheduling will take place in early January.

CFCC is committed to employment equity and encourages applicants from equity-seeking groups. Only those applicants being considered will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in CFCC.