We’re hiring: Outreach Coordinator (parental leave)

Position: Outreach Coordinator (parental leave) 

Location: Remote, across Canada

Application deadline: November 18, 2024

Preferred start date: December 9 or 16 2024 (negotiable) 

Starting Salary: $66,300 per year, plus comprehensive benefits plan 

Hours of work: flexible work week of 35 hours / week, occasional evening and weekend work when events require it.

Child Care Now, Canada’s national child care advocacy organization, is seeking an Outreach Coordinator for at least twelve months to support Child Care Now’s advocacy work. The position will assist in carrying out Child Care Now’s project: “Educators Matter: Workforce Policy for Quality Early Learning and Child Care”. 

The Outreach Coordinator will work closely with the Policy & Project Manager, the Executive Director and members of other Child Care Now project teams. 

We are searching for candidates who are:

  • Passionate about improving the working conditions, compensation and recognition of early childhood educators and others who work in early learning and child care. 
  • Experienced in doing communications and outreach for not-for-profit (and preferably small under-resourced) organizations, 
  • Committed to advocating for high quality, affordable, inclusive, universally-accessible child care

This is a job for someone who:

  • Knows how to organize and mobilize support for public policy change
  • Can show previous success in collaborating with others to get work done effectively and efficiently with limited resources
  • Has the energy, desire and skills to take on a wide variety of responsibilities and tasks including:
    • writing for diverse audiences, 
    • generating and posting website content, 
    • preparing and distributing e-letters, 
    • creating social media content, 
    • organizing all aspects of events both in person, and online, 
    • developing educational materials, 
    • moderating engagement sessions,
    • preparing policy briefs,
    • assisting with research projects.

We encourage applications from Black, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and racialized individuals; Two-Spirit, non-binary, trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people; people with disabilities; and members of other equity-seeking groups.

Apply to: info@childcarenow.ca by Monday November 18 2024 at 11:59 PM EST

Please be advised that only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. A writing sample will be requested from candidates when confirming an interview. 

Paid interview policy

All candidates who participate in an interview will be paid $75 as compensation for their time in the interview process. 

Child Care Now is dedicated to advocating for a publicly funded, inclusive, quality, non-profit child care system. Our organization is non-profit, membership-based and regionally representative. We are supported by a broad membership base of individuals, families, child care programs, regional and pan-Canadian groups and organizations, and are overseen by a voluntary Board of Directors.