TEA is seeking a full-time Community Projects Manager to lead our community-focused environmental projects.
Who We Are:
For over 35 years, the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has campaigned locally to find solutions to Toronto's urban environmental problems. As a not-for-profit organization, we advocate on behalf of all Torontonians for a green, healthy and equitable city. TEA is recognized Canada-wide for our municipal work on climate change, waste reduction, and other issues we believe are critical to the health and well-being of Toronto residents.
The Position:
TEA is looking for a Community Projects Manager to lead community-focused environmental projects with deep engagement elements. The successful applicant will connect with residents across the city to engage new and diverse voices on issues like climate change and waste reduction, and seed new resident-led ideas for long-term environmental solutions.
The Community Projects Manager will support multiple TEA projects that actively engage communities across Toronto through workshops, events, and community outreach with partner organizations. This means engaging residents in accessible and creative ways in their communities, with a focus on connecting environmental issues with local priorities. This work aims to build meaningful and long-term relationships with equity-owed communities that have not been historically included by the mainstream environmental movement, including people living in suburban and dense urban neighbourhoods. The Manager will work closely with our Campaigns team to build strong, grassroots foundations for future policy change, and to bring community voices into democratic processes at City Hall.
Responsibilities:
The Community Projects Manager is responsible for collaboratively planning and delivering community projects and the community-focused elements of TEA’s campaigns to build a greener and more equitable city, including:
- Designing workshops and events to gather feedback from community members on urban environmental challenges, intersecting issues, and solutions
- Developing engagement and outreach strategies to deepen and enhance TEA’s work across the city, and bring new voices into environmental advocacy
- Fostering and maintaining relationships with key community organizations across different geographic and cultural communities, including resident-led environmental groups (eg high-rise “green teams,” neighbourhood climate action groups, etc)
- Tracking and meeting project grant deliverables and timelines
- Developing strategies to bring TEA’s community relationships into campaigns to build a greener, more equitable city
- Working with the communications team to develop and implement campaign and project communications strategies that creatively communicate environmental issues and reach people both online and offline
- Recruiting, training, and organizing volunteers as needed
- Assisting with grant/funding proposals and reports to funders
- Working with the campaigns team to lead targeted community outreach and community mobilizing (e.g. events, workshops, door-knocking) on specific campaign issues
Qualifications:
- Strong commitment to environmental justice and anti-oppression
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience including some community-focused work
- Recent experience designing and facilitating community conversations, events or workshops on environmental and/or social justice issues
- Experience working with diverse communities of people from across Toronto
- Clear and accessible communicator who can comfortably engage with a public audience
- Strong understanding of tools and techniques to create a supportive and welcoming space for people who have limited environmental or policy knowledge
- Knowledge of the principles of climate justice and the need to move away from “traditional” environmental messaging, particularly in equity-owed communities
- Knowledge of how grassroots political change happens - some advocacy or community organizing experience is preferred
- Knowledge of urban environmental issues, intersecting issues, and opportunities
- Some knowledge of social media and communications tools used by community organizers would be an asset
- Experience with writing funding proposals and managing grants would be an asset
- Ability to speak multiple languages would be an asset
Terms of Employment:
This is a full-time one-year position with the possibility of renewal. Compensation is $64,500. TEA offers health benefits and generous vacation provisions. The Community Projects Manager may occasionally be required to work evenings and weekends.
TEA has a hybrid workplace, with staff presently working both remotely and at least 1 day per week in our office in downtown Toronto. The successful candidate will need to reside within the GTA, and organize and attend public and community events in person, as requested.
Application Procedure:
The closing date for applications is Tuesday, May 21st at 9am. To apply, please send a cover letter and resume by email to [email protected] with the subject line Community Projects Manager. Please describe any relevant experience under the position held, and include position start and end dates by month and year. Kindly submit your cover letter and resume as one document in pdf format, with the file named as follows: First Name_Last Name_Community _Projects_Manager. Interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis and early applications are encouraged.
TEA is committed to employment equity and encourages members of equity-owed groups to apply. Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTQ2S, and women, are encouraged to apply for this position and self-identify. First round interviews will be conducted over Zoom. TEA is committed to providing accommodation for applicants at any stage of the recruitment process upon request by emailing [email protected] or by specifying required accommodations in your cover letter.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.