Manager, Market Building

Rally Assets; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a strategic leader to drive impactful projects in the social finance sector. This role involves overseeing initiatives that build sustainable infrastructure, engaging with institutional investors, and fostering stakeholder collaboration. You'll thrive in a dynamic environment that values bold leadership and practical delivery. Join a purpose-driven organization that supports work-life balance and offers opportunities for personal and professional development. If you're passionate about making a difference and possess strong project management skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive Health and Benefits Plan

20 Days Vacation

Personal and Professional Development Opportunities

Flexible Work Environment

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience leading cross-sector projects.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead project planning for initiatives in impact investing.
• Manage relationships with key project partners and vendors.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication Skills

Equity-Informed Project Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

ROLE DESCRIPTION

You’re a strategic, entrepreneurial leader ready to help shape the future of impact investing in Canada. You believe in mobilizing capital to address systemic inequities and social and environmental challenges. With deep experience in project management and stakeholder collaboration, you’re ready to take ownership of high-impact initiatives designed to grow the impact investing sector and deliver on the Government of Canada’s vision for the Social Finance Fund.

As the Manager, Market Building, you will lead and oversee a portfolio of high-impact projects focused on building sustainable infrastructure for the social finance market in Canada. You’ll drive three major projects: strengthening governance and education for foundations, engaging institutional investors to unlock private capital, and launching a pilot impact fund in the arts and culture sector.

You will report to the CEO of Rally Assets and work closely with internal and external collaborators across the country. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment that values systems thinking, bold leadership, and practical delivery.

In our work as Realize Capital Partners, we’re a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund, an innovative initiative to grow the social finance market and strengthen social purpose organizations. Part of the mandate includes undertaking a variety of activities to build the social finance market across the country.

PRIMARY DUTIES

Strategic Project Leadership

1. Lead project planning and delivery for three major sector-building initiatives:

• A national Board Governance and Education program to build the capacity of philanthropic and community foundation boards to make impact-aligned investment decisions, including the development of tailored toolkits and a cohort-based learning program.
• An Institutional Investor Engagement strategy focused on building relationships with Canada’s largest pension funds and asset owners to catalyze their participation in social finance.
• A Pilot Arts Fund to explore and launch a proof-of-concept investment fund supporting the arts and culture sector, with particular focus on under-served organizations and communities.

Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination

• Cultivate and manage relationships with key project partners and vendors, including managing multiple third-party consultants.
• Represent Realize Capital Partners in national conversations.
• Work with the Communications Team, in particular the Associate, Communications, to market programs and share lessons learned through white papers, webinars, and/or other educational outputs.

Program Operations and Knowledge Building

• Develop governance toolkits, engagement strategies, and educational resources.
• Build internal systems to track and codify insights and frameworks.
• Ensure the projects contribute to long-term system-level change in Canada’s impact investing market.

QUALIFICATIONS

On your resume, we ask that you demonstrate the following:

• 5–7 years of experience leading cross-sector projects.
• Strong project management skills.
• Experience managing diverse stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Equity-informed project design experience.
• That you are legally able to work in Canada without restrictions.
• Familiarity with foundations/investors/public-private partnerships is an asset.
• Proficiency in both English and French is considered a strong asset.

WORKING AT RALLY ASSETS

• Work at a company that is purpose driven and values aligned where you will be able to contribute on a daily basis to making the world better.
• A great corporate culture – a certified great place to work and a certified B Corporation.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Flexibility. We strive to support everyone to have a good work-life balance.
• A competitive health and benefits plan designed to support the welfare of team members.
• Vacation entitlement of 20 days a year.
• Work remotely. While most of the Rally team lives in Toronto, we support hybrid and remote working conditions when possible.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Interested individuals should apply through our online application portal by May 19, 2025. Cover letters are not needed but the application portal contains a question we’d like answered: Why are you interested in applying your project management and stakeholder management skills to projects focused on achieving positive community and social outcomes? Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. No phone calls please.

COMMITTED TO INCLUSION

Rally Assets Inc. is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion. We intentionally strive to have a workforce that mirrors the diverse demographics in this country. We encourage all applicants to apply regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or Indigenous status. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may be the ideal candidate we are looking for. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know: [e-mail]. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.

ABOUT RALLY ASSETS

Rally Assets is an impact investment management firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates impact funds and other portfolios to enable foundations, other institutional investors, family offices, and individual accredited investors to invest in alignment with their values. Through Realize Capital Partners, Rally is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada’s Social Finance Fund. Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions. Rally is a certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

12-month Contract Position

Salary: $90,000 - $100,000 a year

Expected Start Date: June 2025

Application Deadline: Monday, May 19, 2025