The Centre for Community Organizations (COCo) promotes social justice, active citizenship, democracy, and just socio-economic development in Quebec by supporting the growth of healthy organizations and strong communities. COCo is a provincial, non-profit organization that works primarily with English-speaking, bilingual, and ethno-cultural community organizations. COCo works within a collaborative structure where all team members are responsible for a variety of tasks.
The Opportunity:
COCo is hiring a Coordinator with a focus on supporting community groups, strategic alliances and funding development. This is position at 24 hours/week and will start around mid to the end of September 2015 for a 2 years period (possibility of hours increase and renewal pending the funding situation). Occasional evening and weekend work is required, as well as travel within the province. Salary: $29.29/hour, with the benefits of working in a flexible, creative, non-traditional work environment.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Coordinate the development of COCo’s funding and programming in collaboration with the COCo staff team;
- Develop and nourish strategic alliances: represent COCo during meetings, conferences and key events;
- Working in a collaborative team environment, this position will coordinate the training, coaching and facilitation contracts that COCo undertakes with a broad range of organizations. This work involves:
- Administering initial intakes and assessments with all contracts
- Matching organizations with appropriate COCo facilitators based on skills and subject of contract
- Researching, writing and submitting Requests for Proposals
- Managing and monitoring contracts and Info-COCo entries through our CRM database;
- Developing contract-related policies
- Provide administrative support and follow-up with contracts (including invoicing, evaluation of our work and regular follow-ups with organizations)
- Facilitate and train organizations using the COCo “walking with” approach: (including but not limited to: Board roles and responsibility, mission, vision and values work, strategic and annual planning, team building, communication and conflict resolution, evaluation, communications and IT)
- Support facilitators in the use of and dissemination of said tools and designs
- Organize and maintain COCo’s facilitator community of practice, ensure all facilitators receive support throughout their contract work, create responsive training on subjects and information requests that COCo receives or that facilitators ask for, through our contract work, Info COCo topics, or other venues
- Contribute to the ongoing development of COCo’s collaborative structure and strategic directions as they relate to our work as facilitators: anti-oppression practice, community driven action research, movement building and alternative structures.
Qualifications required:
- Extensive experience in grant-writing and developing partnership projects;
- An appetite and ability for expanding programs – keen understanding of contract writing, communicating with organizations and responding to Requests for Proposals
- High interest for conducting needs assessments, managing and evaluating community-based programs;
- A background in the non-profit sector of Québec with an understanding of the Organizational Development approaches used in this context
- Demonstrated experience in popular education, creating accessible tools, and workshop development;
- Exemplary team-player who enjoys sharing tasks, working collaboratively and building capacity within the team, while still being able to work autonomously + a keen ability for setting priorities
- Ability to work in a responsive, flexible and creative work environment;
- Strong critical analysis abilities from a social justice perspective;
- EXCELLENT written and oral communication skills in French or English
Additional assets:
- Knowledge of legal information (incorporation, governance, charitable status, human resources, etc);
- At least 3-5 years of experience in the community sector and knowledge of, and relationships with, the English, bilingual and ethnocultural networks;
- Knowledge/interest with Constituent Relationship Management systems (CRMs, such as Salesforce);
- A valid driver’s license.
To Apply:
- Please forward your CV (language of your choice);
- Cover letter (written in French);
- An example of a popular education tool (created by you, in english) designed to inform community groups of best practices / strategies in funding development for not-for-profit organisations (graphics recommended, 1 page max)
- Deadline for applications: please email your application to hiring at coco-net.org by midnight, Sunday, August 16th 2015. While we thank you for your applications, only candidates chosen for an interview will be contacted.
As an organization that works to facilitate social change and the empowerment of diverse communities, COCo recognizes that living under marginalization and oppression often brings both challenges and valuable skills and perspectives. People of color, people with disabilities, women,Two-Spirited, queer people, trans* people, and other candidates who experience marginalizationare strongly encouraged to apply and to self-identify in the application. We are committed to creating an organization as diverse as the communities we serve.
