Job Description:
The Institute for Community Prosperity is a hub of social innovation, systems learning, and community engagement that bridges the knowledge, wisdom and experience of community with academic learning and scholarly insight. The Institute brings together community, students and faculty from across disciplines, sectors and backgrounds to tackle the complex social and ecological challenges of our time.
Reporting to the Executive Director of the Institute for Community Prosperity, the part-time Community Program Coordinator (CPC) plays a key role in co-leading and coordinating a one-year special project with the Institute entitled Plan Z: Gen Z Engagement in the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sectors. As a co-lead of the project, the Community Program Coordinator will work collaboratively with other team members and the Executive Director to develop, execute and evaluate the project. This position is responsible for project design, engagement, and communications as well as research including interviews, focus groups, secondary data collection, literature reviews and storytelling.
This is a part-time conditionally funded term working 21 hours over 3 days per week and ending May 31, 2027.
Community Engagement
- Design, convene and facilitate workshops, presentations, and other engagement activities.
- Coordinate all aspects of community engagement activities including communications, recruitment, coordination of logistics, notetaking, transcription, and follow up communications.
- Facilitate co-creation workshops with Gen Z participants to develop recommendations and prototypes.
- Work closely with the Institute team to ensure community engagement activities are planned, designed and executed in an effective, efficient manner.
Systems Research, Mapping and Prototype Design
- Research and analysis to inform systems mapping including interviews, surveys, workshops, secondary data collection and literature reviews.
- Design and visualize a systems map in order to identify leverage points and potential areas for change.
Communications and Knowledge Mobilization
- Lead the communications for the Plan Z project including marketing and promotion for engagement activities, social media engagement, web content, and other internal and external communications.
- Produce materials and coordinate knowledge dissemination activities to share learnings and outcomes from the Plan Z project to relevant audiences including participants, funders, other interested organizations, and the broader Institute community.
- Three or four year bachelor degree or equivalent
- 2 - 3 years of related experience including:
- experience engaging and communicating with diverse audiences both 1:1 and in workshop settings.
- experience in the fields of social innovation, systems thinking, and the nonprofit sector.
- Broad range of communications experience (web, social media, publications, etc).
- Research skills (qualitative and quantitative)
- Demonstrated skill and comfort in proactively building strong working relationships with community partners and organizations.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong time management and organizational skills and an ability to manage diverse activities, meet deadlines and be flexible to changing situations and priorities.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and direction, prioritizing and self-identifying opportunities and efficiencies in task and workflow management.
- Excellent leadership, communication, decision making, problem solving, conflict resolution and planning skills.
- Proficiency with basic office suite applications, including word processing, spreadsheets and some exposure to database design and management.
- Familiarity with processes and frameworks related to systems thinking, social innovation, social labs, and participatory engagement methods are an asset for this work.
Closing Date: June 5, 2026
A cover letter and resume should be submitted in one .pdf document. Please title your .pdf document as follows: [Last Name], [Requisition Number], [Document Title].pdf (ex. Smith, 4321, CV.pdf).
