Overview

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about working in and with communities? The successful candidate is a dependable self-starter who can juggle multiple tasks, thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment, and demonstrates versatility as part of a dynamic team. This role:

  • Works directly with communities and organizations across the province of Alberta to identify community needs related to domestic abuse and sexual exploitation.
  • Engages and develops unique partnership and service delivery opportunities to promote safe and healthy communities for those impacted by domestic abuse.

Competencies & Skills

  • Engages in curiosity and vulnerability (Brené Brown).
  • Excellent storyteller with the ability to effectively communicate with key stakeholders and build productive, positive relationships.
  • Ability to thrive in an adaptive environment encouraging unique partnership opportunities.
  • Self-motivated and driven to create opportunities for community-based social change.
  • Comfort with a hybrid work environment and virtual technology.
  • Confident in public speaking and presentation skills.
  • Ability to motivate, inspire and offer creative solutions to challenging situations.
  • Acts, learns and makes decisions through cross-sectional, gender-transformative and intersectional lenses.
  • Comfortable travelling across Alberta with a valid driver’s license.

Roles & Responsibilities

Relationship Development

  • Identify, engage and develop partnership sites across Alberta.
  • Curate mutually beneficial and lasting relationships aligned with the organization’s values, communications strategy and strategic outcomes.
  • Promote Sagesse’s peer support and capacity-building programs, including:
    • Building relationships with formal social service organizations across Alberta to host our programs in their communities.
    • Coordinating with Intervention team staff to ensure a smooth transition to program delivery.
    • Attend community events focusing on promoting our programs and identifying informal partners.
  • Support with the recruitment of Rainbow Ready clients, Clare’s Law network and Collective Impact member organizations.
  • Track and document relationships in Sagesse’s customer relationship management tool (CRM) and coordinate activities including introductory calls and meetings, service bookings, and relationship troubleshooting.
  • Measure and report on all activities monthly, to track progress against the agency’s partnership targets.

Community Development and Collaboration

  • Participate in community bodies to address systemic barriers and promote Sagesse programs at the direction of agency leadership.
  • Support Collective Impact initiatives.
  • Attend relevant community events across Alberta to promote Sagesse programs.

Closing Date: February 17, 2025

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About Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society

Sagesse empowers people of all backgrounds to disrupt structures of abuse through curating environments for people to heal and lead safe, healthy lives.With innovation as our programming cornerstone, Sagesse works for anyone who has experienced domestic abuse, including people who are at risk of being abused, informally support others, or are involved in sex work. We work in communities across Alberta – either directly providing service or partnering with agencies to deliver programs on our behalf.We are the backbone agency for Alberta’s provincial IMPACT initiative. In the role of backbone, our job is to steward the creation of a vision and strategy for our collective impact initiatives, mobilizing largescale change and advancing policy to eradicate domestic and sexual abuse.Our social enterprise arm, ByDesign, is a hub of knowledge, experience, and innovation with an aim to disrupt norms, dispel disbelief, and deepen societal impact. Revenue from ByDesign is invested in Sagesse’s programs and services.