CSI is hiring a Control Freak for Social Change

Job Opportunity – Program Manager (AKA – Control Freak for Social Change)

CSI is seeking an extraordinary individual - part left brain, part right brain, part project manager, part entrepreneur and part mother Theresa. We have insanely high expectations and are only interested in working with the cream of the crop world-changers. Control freakish, action-focused, charming, professional and crystal clear... is it really so much to ask?

Position Type: Full-time
Salary: $45 – 50,000

About the Centre for Social Innovation

The Centre for Social Innovation(CSI) is a hub for Toronto’s social mission sector – a place where social innovators and entrepreneurs come together to ignite and advance new ideas that can, and are, changing the world!   We do this by creating and offering shared workspace, shared services, innovative programming and incubation support to social innovators and their projects.  CSI creates the conditions for social innovation emergence.

About the Centre for Social Innovation’s Program Manager

We are seeking an extraordinary individual - part left brain, part right brain, part project manager, part entrepreneur and part mother Theresa. We have insanely high expectations and are only interested in working with the cream of the crop world-changers. Control freakish, action-focused, charming, professional and crystal clear... is it really so much to ask?

The Program Manager (boring title – invent your own) will develop and lead CSI's programming activities. CSI runs several programs designed to animate and support its own members and the broader social mission community. The Program Manager will oversee the design and delivery of current programs and projects (including the Enterprising Nonprofits Program) and will conceive and launch new programs that advance CSI's mission.

How do you know if you are right for the job?

• Do you have initiative? Do you get things done?
• Can you read a room? Feel the energy and know what to do next?
• Can you conceptualize a project from start to finish?
• Are you a project management control freak that really owns an event/program?
• Do you get it? Are you passionate about social change? Do you have the context?
• Are you about solutions? We aren't interested in whiners.
• Have you run a social enterprise? Do you have any idea what this term really means?
• Are you charming? Can you hold people's attention and convince them of great things?

We want to work with fun, engaged and professional people who take tremendous pride in their work and want to make social change too.... is this you?

Practically, the Work Responsibilities:   

• Develop and implement the CSI’s programming vision
• Facilitate the involvement of many others in program development
• Undertake partnership development with thought leaders, partners and community
• Administer and deliver the programming seamlessly
• Conceive new, revenue-generating programs that advance Toronto’s social mission sector
• Liaise with tenants, funders and partners
• Write grant applications and fundraise from time to time
• Organize events – a bunch of them
• Deliver the ENP-Toronto 2009 Program www.socialinnovation.ca/enterprisingnonprofits
• Liaise with funders
• Plan and deliver social enterprise skills training workshops
• Support funding applicants
• Whatever else is needed to make CSI rock

The Fun Responsibilities:

• Invent new programs for social change
• Connect people and ideas
• Animate CSI's internal and external communities
• Help make change happen

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with and interest in social enterprise
• Familiarity with and interest in social innovation
• Project management skills
• Presentation skills
• Fund raising skills
• Capacity to handle a million things
• Enthusiasm and energy
• Sound judgment and comfort working autonomously
• A low-stress attitude in a complex environment
• Willingness to do whatever it takes…Zero attitude!!

You must also have a great sense of humour – seriously, you will need a great sense of humour because inevitably something will go wrong.

We are an equal opportunity employer and strongly support applications from diverse backgrounds and communities.


Submit your cover letter and resume by Friday, July 3, 2009, to:

Camila Bonifaz, Community Animator, Administration
Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Ave, Suite 120
Toronto, ON  M5T 2C7
camila@socialinnovation.ca

For more information about the Centre for Social Innovation visit: www.socialinnovation.ca.