Manager of Community Engagement

West Coast LEAF; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 54,000 - 57,000; Part time

Job summary

West Coast LEAF is seeking a Manager of Community Engagement in Vancouver, BC, for a 3-year, 0.8 FTE position with a hybrid work setup. You will develop and steward community relationships, manage key coalitions, and ensure accountability across partners while driving WCL’s advocacy and public education agenda.

The role focuses on building trust with priority communities, coordinating grants, and guiding engagement strategies that inform organizational planning and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Progressive experience in community engagement, organizing, partnerships, advocacy or a related field.
• Experience building trust-based relationships with communities, movements, coalitions or community-serving organizations.
• Understanding of, connection to, or lived and living experience of systems of oppression and their impacts on individuals and communities.
• Experience facilitating coalitions, advisory bodies, working groups or community conversations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and grants, including planning, implementation, documentation, budget, evaluation, reporting, timelines and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and coordination for the Family Well-being Coalition, including planning, facilitation, partner communication and follow-through.
• Build and steward respectful, reciprocal and accountable relationships with priority communities, coalitions and partners.
• Work with staff to design accessible and meaningful engagement processes, including clear purposes, consent, appropriate compensation and feedback loops.
• Bring community perspectives, emerging issues and lessons learned into organizational planning, advocacy, public legal education and decision-making.
• Help staff build and sustain community relationships while strengthening continuity of knowledge and organizational learning.
• Manage and support key projects, grants, budgets and reporting requirements associated with assigned initiatives.
• Support coordination, respectful communication, documentation and accountability processes with the Indigenous Advisory Circle.
• Support community resource pathways within WCL’s mandate and the boundaries of the role.

Skills

Relationship-building

Facilitation

Project management

Coalition building

Job description

Employment TemporaryuntilAug 2029,0.8 FTE (30 hours)

Location Hybrid

Compensation $67,000 – $71,000 depending on experience, already prorated to 0.8 FTE

About West Coast LEAF

West Coast LEAF(WCL)is a feminist legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, BC, on the homelands of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)andsəlílwətaʔɬ(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Through litigation, law reform and public legal education, we work toward gender justice in collaboration with people and communities most affected by overlapping systems of oppression. We are committed to decolonization, anti-racism, accessibility, movementsolidarityand meaningful accountability.

We are a provincially based non-profit society and federally registered charity, funded through a mix of foundation and government grants, individualdonationsand sponsorships of our annual International Women’s Day Equality Breakfast. WCL is a unionized workplace.

Position Summary

WCLis seeking a Manager of CommunityEngagementtodevelop and stewardcommunity relationships, coalitionpartnershipsand organizational accountability. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Manager will support reciprocal engagement with communities, movements,coalitionsand partners connected to WCL’s work.The Manager will combinerelationship-building, project leadership andpractical follow-through and help ensure that community knowledgeand lived experienceinform WCL’s advocacy, public legal education, organizationallearningand strategic direction.

The positionprovidesleadership for key engagement initiatives,notablythe Family Well-being Coalition,supportsrelationships with communities and coalition partners, collaborateson cross-organizational projects,supportsthe Indigenous AdvisoryCircleandstrengthenscommunity-engagement practicesacross WCL.Therole is alsoresponsible forprojectplanningand managementofkey grants.

We are looking for someone with strengths inrelationship-building, facilitation and projectmanagementwho enjoys working collaboratively and building trust across diverse communities and partners.This3-yearposition is funded by multiple grantsand is part of the Union, with occasional travel andmeetings outside ofregular businesshours.

Key Responsibilities

The Manager will:

• Provide leadership and coordination for the Family Well-being Coalition, including planning, facilitation, partnercommunicationand follow-through.
• Build and steward respectful,reciprocaland accountable relationships with priority communities,coalitionsand partners.
• Work with staff to design accessible and meaningful engagement processes, including clear purposes, consent,appropriate compensationand feedback loops.
• Bring community perspectives, emerging issues and lessons learned into organizational planning, advocacy, public legaleducationand decision-making.
• Help staffbuild and sustaincommunity relationships whilestrengtheningcontinuity of knowledge,commitmentsand organizational learning.
• Manage and support key projects, grants,budgetsand reporting requirements associated with assigned initiatives.
• Supportcoordination,respectful communication,documentationand accountability processes with the Indigenous Advisory Circle.
• Support community resource pathways within WCL’s mandate and the boundaries of the role.

About You

You are askilledrelationship-builder whovalues reciprocity,accountabilityand community-centred practices. Youunderstand that meaningful engagement requires listening, trust,transparencyand follow-through. Youenjoybringing people together,facilitatingconversationsandbuilding connections acrossdiverseperspectiveson complexissues.

You understand community engagement as more than consultation.You can help create accessible and meaningful opportunities for participation, clarify purpose and expectations and support feedback loops between communities and organizations. You are a thoughtful collaborator who works with humility and is comfortable navigating shared accountability while respecting the distinctrolesof colleagues,leadershipand community partners.

Knowledge,SkillsandExperience

You bring:

• Progressiveexperiencein community engagement, organizing, partnerships,advocacyor a related field.
• Experience building trust-based relationships with communities, movements,coalitionsor community-serving organizations.
• Understanding of, connection to, orlivedand livingexperienceof systems of oppressionand their impacts on individuals and communities.
• Experiencefacilitatingcoalitions, advisory bodies, workinggroupsor community conversations.
• Demonstrated ability to manageprojectsand grants, including planning,implementation,documentation,budget,evaluation, reporting,timelinesand stakeholder coordination.
• Understanding of family policing, childwelfareor related systems in British Columbia.
• Ability to communicate clearly, synthesize diverseperspectivesand support follow-through oncommitments.
• Ability to navigate complexity, competing priorities and conflict with humility and sound judgment.
• Experience working collaboratively across teams or organizations with shared accountability.
• Demonstrated commitment toWCL’svalues, which include decolonial, trans-inclusive, and intersectional feminism, andan understanding oftheongoing impacts of colonial systems and Indigenous-specific discrimination in British Columbia.

Assets

The following would strengthen an application:

• Experience working with Indigenous communities and supporting decolonizing practices.
• Community-based research,evaluationor ethical knowledge-mobilization experience.
• Experience with coalition governance, grassroots organizing or movement-building.
• Experience managing grants, honoraria,contractorsand funder reporting.
• Knowledge of BC community resources and referral pathways.
• Experience supporting advisory bodies.

Commitment to Equity and Accessibility

WCLencourages applications from people with diverse experiences and perspectives, including Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from 2SLGBTQ+ communities,newcomersand people with relevant lived experience.

Candidates may self-identifyany knowledge,experienceor perspective they would bring to advance WCL’s commitment to equity and inclusion. Accommodation is available throughout recruitment and employment. Applications are kept confidential.