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About the Role
Venture for Canada is seeking a Community Lead to strengthen program communities, foster lasting relationships, and create learning and contribution opportunities for participants and alumni. This role bridges community strategy and experience design, connecting communities to organizational priorities and ensuring ongoing value.
Responsibilities
- Analyze community base across multiple programs, cohorts, and stakeholder groups.
- Develop meaningful audience segments and identify high-potential groups for activation.
- Grow a core group of key community members who regularly participate in events and initiatives.
- Identify and nurture highly engaged individuals as champions, contributors, and connectors.
- Create opportunities for relationship building across programs.
- Develop clear pathways for community engagement beyond attending events, such as mentoring and speaking.
- Collaborate with program teams to connect community to meaningful opportunities.
- Ensure community members feel connected to their original program and the broader network.
- Develop strategies to encourage community members to become ambassadors, advocates, mentors, and champions.
- Collaborate with External Affairs to activate the community in support of recruitment, employer engagement, partnership development, fundraising, and thought leadership.
- Identify opportunities to leverage community stories, expertise, and networks.
- Manage and evolve core engagement channels, including newsletters, Slack, and social platforms.
- Improve communication effectiveness through segmentation and targeting.
- Ensure consistent, high-quality touchpoints to keep the community connected.
- Develop engagement journeys that deepen long-term relationships and create opportunities for ongoing participation.
Requirements
- At least four years of experience building, managing, and growing communities.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strategies that move groups from loose networks to active, connected communities.
- Strong experience designing and delivering engaging in-person and virtual sessions, events, and community experiences.
- Understanding of adult learning and participant experience principles.
- Ability to independently lead multiple projects from idea through delivery and evaluation.
- Experience using community or CRM tools such as HubSpot.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada at the time of application.
- Preference may be given to candidates based in the Greater Toronto Area.
- Moderate in-person attendance of program-related events is required.
Skills
- Community building
- Community management
- Community growth
- Strategy development
- Audience segmentation
- Relationship building
- Event design
- Virtual session delivery
- In-person session delivery
- Project leadership
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Data analysis
- Feedback utilization
- Experimentation
- Solutions-oriented approach
- CRM tools (e.g., HubSpot)
Location
- Remote (Canada-wide)
- Toronto
- Vancouver
Work Type
- Remote-first
- Remote
Experience Level
- At least four years of experience
About the Company
- Venture for Canada is a national registered charity equipping talent across Canada with entrepreneurial skills, mindset, and opportunities.
- The organization aims to prepare individuals for a 21st-century economy shaped by rapid change and emerging technology.
- Venture for Canada believes in empowering individuals to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and innovative society.
- The organization has grown significantly since 2013 and is expanding its team with values-aligned individuals.
- Venture for Canada is a remote-first organization with offices in Toronto and Vancouver.
Equal Opportunity
- Venture for Canada is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace.
- The organization welcomes and encourages applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities.
- Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all stages of the recruitment and selection process.