SFU Community Economic Development is looking to fill the following positions ASAP. Please share with your networks. As always, we encourage applications from Indigenous, Black, and Communities of Color. 

Consultant: Social Media and Communications Development

Instructor: Financing Community Economic Development

Instructor: CED Approaches to Food

Instructor: Developing CED Accelerators and Labs

Call for proposals: Consultant: Social Media and Communications Development

SFU CED is increasingly producing research, podcasts, and other forms of knowledge mobilization around community economic development, Indigenous reconciliation, and social change. While we’re relatively good at content creation, we’re really quite terrible at promoting our work and communicating our value to the public. We are therefore looking for a consultant who can help us develop a communications strategy and relevant technology to increase our online presence. This would include:

• Reviewing our social media tools and providing advice on how to improve our use of them.
• Setting us up with Hootsuite or a similar platform to manage our communications.
• Reviewing our newsletter approach and related software (we currently use Campaigner) to improve our ability to connect with our target audiences.
• Helping us increase likes, shares, retweets, newsletter open rates, etc.
• Telling us what we don’t know. We seriously don’t know what we don’t know. Help!
• Harmonizing our contact list management for our newsletter segments

This will be a small, short-term contract on a limited budget. If you are interested, please email us at ced_info at sfu.ca expressing your qualifications and interest. Please put “Consultant: Communications” in the subject line. We anticipate this would lead to a subsequent conversation and ultimately a small proposal from the consultant for services and costs. Although we have a limited budget, we are open to someone doing a good job and being compensated adequately for it, so we’ll ask you to explain why your services and rates are what we need! Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for follow-up, but we will let you know if we went with another applicant.

Instructor: Financing Community Economic Development

Due to the pandemic, SFU CED has moved all of its core content online. This has included developing course videos that go through the theories and case studies of different aspects of CED. For each course we have approximately 6 hours of pre-recorded content, broken up into 12 classes each.

We are currently looking for an instructor to teach “CED 228: Financing Community Economic Development”. This course focuses on the basics of funding CED projects, plans, programs, and related activities. Course elements that we teach include:

• Basics of pursuing grants for CED programming and planning.
• Comparing various financial strategies such as debt, equity, grants, and self-financing for projects like social enterprises, community-based initiatives, etc.
• Giving insight into how foundations, credit unions, and other financial organizations evaluate and select successful applicants.
• Describing the governmental environment for funding CED.
• Basic understanding of developing project budgets and reading balance sheets.
• Strategies for costing basic projects.
• Overview of funders in Western Canada.
• Challenges for financing CED and ways to mitigate those challenges.

Ideal Applicant: We are looking for applicants with a strong finance background who can easily and intuitively explain the concepts necessary. This would normally include:

• Formal employment experience at a foundation, credit union, or other financial entity with good experience in working with CED-related projects. In rare cases, successful municipal or non-profit executives with a strong track record in getting projects funded might be a good fit as well.
• Some experience in public speaking, or just having general charisma. Filming six hours of content requires some excitement in the delivery, so people who can keep the interest high are preferred!
• A bonus, though not required, is some experience teaching classes or facilitating workshops.

Position specifics: The following describes the relevant supports and compensation related to this opportunity:

• This is a short-term, one-time contract position.
• The contract is for designing the curriculum for the course, developing slide decks for each class within the course, and filming yourself delivering the content.
• SFU CED will provide as much support as you need to flesh out the content and structure the curriculum. We will also provide a camera and related technology if needed. We will also do all editing and post-production of the course videos.
• We will use the content for multiple runs of the course, so you are only required to deliver the course once. If you would like to maintain further involvement in the working directly with students (through, for example, lunch-and-learns on your topic, discussion group participation, etc., we can arrange that under separate honoraria or contracts).
• SFU CED will own all finished video content, but your knowledge is your own, so this does not preclude you from using intellectual content you develop in other contexts.
• Compensation is a one-time payment of $5,000, inclusive of GST.

If you have interest in this position, please send your CV/resume and a brief email or letter to ced_info at sfu.ca expressing your fit for the course. Please put “Instructor: Financing CED” in the subject line. We will only ask for interviews with shortlisted candidates, but will let you know if we went with another applicant. Thank you in advance!!

Instructor: CED Approaches to Food

Due to the pandemic, SFU CED has moved all of its core content online. This has included developing course videos that go through the theories and case studies of different aspects of CED. For each course we have approximately 6 hours of pre-recorded content, broken up into 12 classes each.

We are currently looking for an instructor to teach “CED 230: CED Approaches to Food”. This course focuses on the most elementary form of entrepreneurship and community development: food! In every community food is a central object of importance for the economy. People work to buy food, we grow and harvest food for sale, and food is the entry point for people of all backgrounds to develop businesses. Food is also the medium through which we congregate, talk, learn, and love together. This course examines food approaches in CED, including:

• The basic concepts of food as nourishment, commodity, etc.
• Food security and its relation to the economy, capitalism, etc.
• Basic understanding of the market for food: demand, competition, branding, margins, challenges, etc.
• Types of CED projects utilizing food, including: farmers markets, community gardens, training programs, community kitchens, non-timber forest product (NTFP) development, etc.
• Entrepreneurship programming in food for businesses like food trucks, restaurants, retail products, etc.
• The policy and funding environment for food supports at the local and provincial level.
• Sustainability, social inclusion, and related issues in food production.

Ideal Applicant: We are looking for applicants with a strong “food” background who can easily and intuitively explain the concepts necessary. This would normally include:

• A deep background in food production, sales, etc.
• Experience in designing non-profit, governmental, or similar food-based projects. This might include running farmers markets, running municipal food programs, or entrepreneurship programs with food businesses.
• Some experience in public speaking, or just having general charisma. Filming six hours of content requires some excitement in the delivery, so people who can keep the interest high are preferred!
• A bonus, though not required, is some experience teaching classes or facilitating workshops.

Position specifics: The following describes the relevant supports and compensation related to this opportunity:

• This is a short-term, one-time contract position.
• The contract is for designing the curriculum for the course, developing slide decks for each class within the course, and filming yourself delivering the content.
• SFU CED will provide as much support as you need to flesh out the content and structure the curriculum. We will also provide a camera and related technology if needed. We will also do all editing and post-production of the course videos.
• We will use the content for multiple runs of the course, so you are only required to deliver the course once. If you would like to maintain further involvement in the working directly with students (through, for example, lunch-and-learns on your topic, discussion group participation, etc., we can arrange that under separate honoraria or contracts).
• SFU CED will own all finished video content, but your knowledge is your own, so this does not preclude you from using intellectual content you develop in other contexts.
• Compensation is a one-time payment of $5,000, inclusive of GST.

If you have interest in this position, please send your CV/resume and a brief email or letter to ced_info at sfu.ca expressing your fit for the course. Please put “Instructor: CED and Food” in the subject line. We will only ask for interviews with shortlisted candidates, but will let you know if we went with another applicant. Thank you in advance!!

Instructor: Developing Accelerators and Labs

Due to the pandemic, SFU CED has moved all of its core content online. This has included developing course videos that go through the theories and case studies of different aspects of CED. For each course we have approximately 6 hours of pre-recorded content, broken up into 12 classes each.

We are currently looking for an instructor to co-teach “CED 231: Developing Accelerators and Labs”. This course focuses on approaches to implementing social change through entrepreneurship accelerators and project labs. The market for entrepreneurship programming is actually quite thick at the moments, with many different organizations and agencies providing supports. However, CED practitioners continue to find needs for developing localized or niche programming, and also need help in understanding what makes a “good” approach. As such, this course explores the following:

• History and context for accelerators and labs.
• Typology of entrepreneurship programs and relevant labs for social change.
• Basic approaches to developing local programs, including vetting the need for programs, designing program elements, funding programs, and evaluating them.
• Case studies of accelerators and labs from various practitioners.
• An overall appraisal of the successes and failures of this type of programming. What is the future in this space?

Ideal Applicant: We are looking for applicants with clear experience in this space who can easily and intuitively explain the concepts necessary. This would normally include:

• Direct experience in developing or managing an accelerator, entrepreneurship program, or lab.
• Some experience in public speaking, or just having general charisma. Filming six hours of content requires some excitement in the delivery, so people who can keep the interest high are preferred!
• A bonus, though not required, is some experience teaching classes or facilitating workshops.

Position specifics: The following describes the relevant supports and compensation related to this opportunity:

• This is a short-term, one-time contract position.
• The course itself will be considered “co-taught” in the sense that we will include interviews with other accelerator and lab leaders. We anticipate the requirement for the instructor being 60% of the usual content development.
• The contract is for designing the curriculum for the course, developing slide decks for each class within the course, and filming yourself delivering the content.
• SFU CED will provide as much support as you need to flesh out the content and structure the curriculum. We will also provide a camera and related technology if needed. We will also do all editing and post-production of the course videos.
• We will use the content for multiple runs of the course, so you are only required to deliver the course once. If you would like to maintain further involvement in the working directly with students (through, for example, lunch-and-learns on your topic, discussion group participation, etc., we can arrange that under separate honoraria or contracts).
• SFU CED will own all finished video content, but your knowledge is your own, so this does not preclude you from using intellectual content you develop in other contexts.
• Compensation is a one-time payment of $3,000, inclusive of GST. Honoraria will be provided separately for the other accelerator leaders who will be included in this course series.

If you have interest in this position, please send your CV/resume and a brief email or letter to ced_info at sfu.ca expressing your fit for the course. Please put “Instructor: Accelerators” in the subject line. We will only ask for interviews with shortlisted candidates, but will let you know if we went with another applicant. Thank you in advance!!

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