Impact Communications Coordinator

Job Opportunity: Impact Communications Coordinator

Organization: Centre for Family Equity

Location: Remote within BC – candidate must live in BC.

Job Type: Part-time (21 hours/week), preferably consistent hours split over 3 to 5 days per week. While some predictable workday hours are needed for team meetings, we anticipate this role could be a good fit for someone who needs some schedule flexibility and predictability, such as a parent seeking a part-time role during the school day, a graduate student, or someone semi-retired or with another freelance practice.

Salary: $35,700/year for an initial 1-year contract with potential to renew (depending on funding). Position is equivalent to $68,000 annually at full-time hours.

Benefits: Extended health benefits + 5 weeks paid vacation + statutory holidays

Application Deadline: Saturday, April 18, 2026, at 4 pm Pacific Time

Desired start date: ASAP, by May 15th, 2026

About the Role

The Centre for Family Equity (CFE) is seeking an Impact Communications Coordinator with strong skills in advocacy and digital communications who enjoys being part of a team doing antipoverty systems change work. This role will be a key partner for the executive director and other staff, implementing many elements of our communications to support community mobilization and organizing, knowledge translation, and policy change. While this role is focused on implementation, there will also be opportunities for more strategic work. While the role is funding-dependent, the desire is for this role to become a permanent core role in our team, and we are seeking the right fit for the long-term. There is also potential for the weekly hours to increase in the future, if desired by the successful candidate.

About our Organization

At the Centre for Family Equity, we’re dedicated to eliminating family poverty in BC.

We propose evidence-based public policy solutions to poverty that create opportunities for families to thrive. We carry out research, community engagement, advocacy, and legal action and law reform. Our programs and initiatives are led by the communities we serve and focus on leadership and capacity-building and ensuring they reflect the real and evolving needs of families across BC.

Founded as the Single Mothers' Alliance in 2014, we are a province-wide network of low-income parents and caregivers in over 41 BC communities. We build leadership capacity among families affected by socioeconomic inequality while advancing community-led solutions. Our guiding principles are rooted in equity, inclusion, solidarity, and community leadership. We take a human rights-based approach to advocacy and systems change, addressing the complex structural inequities that affect families.

Key Responsibilities

• With support from the executive director and in alignment with our communications strategy, lead implementation (writing, editing, basic graphic design and coordination, technical implementation/posting) across our communications channels. This includes our website, eblasts (email list calls to action, fundraising/donor communications, etc.), and social media.
• Coordinate communications calendar and basic project tracking.
• Coordinate digital mobilization efforts, including digital campaigning and coordinating communications efforts within coalitions and allied solidarity work.
• Support knowledge mobilization of our research and community-engagement data for a diversity of audiences (the province and specific ministries, provincial and municipal electeds, general public, non-profit and human rights sector, and marginalized and atrisk populations, etc., including all CFE members).
• Collaborate with researchers/project leads on the production and copyediting of all CFE reports, briefs and external communications collateral.
• Support compelling storytelling that centres impacted people and communities, with care and consent.
• Support media relations.
• Support municipal and provincial government relations (e.g. by supporting colleagues in preparing policy briefs, presentations, etc. for meetings with electeds and provincial staff)
• Collaborate with the executive director and other staff from time-to-time to contribute to grant proposal writing/framing for a diversity of submissions.
• Support responsible, secure data management practices. Support efforts to ensure that tech systems, software, hardware, training, and digital security practices are meeting organizational needs.
• Implement the CFE’s Decolonizing and Well-being Framework throughout our communications and engagement work.
• Model a healthy workplace culture, including (1) a commitment to justice, equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion, and (2) a commitment to healthy work/life boundaries and rhythms of rest and recovery.

Who You Are

You are a skilled communications generalist with experience in advocacy, campaigning, digital communications, and/or knowledge mobilization in a transferable context. You enjoy mobilizing people, telling stories, and keeping communications clear and organized in a small team that meets key moments. You are a strong writer in English, can make a solid Canva outreach poster, and bring a deep commitment to ethical communications practices. You are deeply committed to equitable ways of working together in a non-profit team. You are highly collaborative while also being conscientious and self-directed. Lived experience of the issues and realities addressed by our organization are recognized as a strong asset, as they inform the way we need to centre our values in all our ways of working together. Ideally, you’re interested in staying with our organization for at least 2 years while recognizing that the role is funding dependant.

Key Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience doing organizational communications work (paid or volunteer).
• 2+ years of experience in some form of advocacy, lobbying, and/or grassroots mobilization.
• Experience with database/list management and segmentation.
• Ability to work within an extremely diverse community context in a trauma-informed environment.
• Strong writing and editing skills in English, with the ability to write in the organization’s voice with a human rights and justice-oriented tone in relation to poverty.
• Skilled with, or ability to quickly become skilled with, digital engagement platforms and tools such as NationBuilder (both website and other functions), NewMode, Canva, and Jotform. Comfortable with Microsoft Office Suite (Teams, Outlook, Sharepoint, Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and Adobe PDFs. Ability to evaluate and use new technologies.
• Demonstrated integrity, ethics, and sound judgment in a non-profit, advocacy, or community-serving context.
• Ability to identify priorities, organize, implement, and stay grounded when things are busy and exciting within rapidly shifting policy landscapes.
• Ability to translate your commitment to justice, equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion into action in a communications context.
• Ability to communicate clearly and build relationships of trust, including with all CFE members who may be people with different identities and life experiences from you.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with others, including problem solving, conflict resolution, and other interpersonal skills.
• Ability to research and learn new skills and knowledge.

Additional assets (we do not expect any one candidate to have all of these):

• Experience with media relations (press releases, pitching, press conferences, etc.).
• Experience assessing communications metrics and making recommendations for improvements.
• Experience in strategic campaigning, social movement and/or advocacy coalitions.
• Experience coordinating fast-paced advocacy campaigns.
• Strong graphic design and/or video creation/editing skills.
• Experience in a ‘start-up’-like, rapid organizational growth context, particularly in supporting the development of diverse communications channels and strong communications planning practices to support a values-driven team.
• Experience with academic research projects and knowledge translation best practises and innovation.
• Customer service and/or frontline service provision experience.
• Formal education related to social policy, communications, advocacy, human rights, non-profit or business administration, or another area of our work.

How to Apply

We will review applications on a rolling basis up to 4 pm on Saturday, April 18th. We welcome both written and verbal cover letters (up to 3 minutes in length). Please send your resume along with a written or recorded cover letter to: viveca@centreforequity.ca

Please submit written applications as either one or two PDFs with the file name format ‘Last name First name Communications’. Thank you.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those shortlisted will be contacted for interviews.

The hiring team may adapt the recruitment process as needed to understand candidates’ potential to succeed in this role. Currently, we anticipate that this selection process will move quite quickly, including:

• A short phone screening call: ideally April 16-23.
• A time-limited practical round (modest honorarium offered): ideally April 26-28th.
• An interview via videocall: ideally May 1st or 4th.
• A meet and greet with the team (top 1-2 candidates): ideally May 5th or 6th.
• Reference checks (please be prepared to provide the names and contact info for three references who can speak to your experience and potential for this role)

We hope to make an offer to the successful candidate in early May. Ideally, the successful candidate will be available to start before/by May 15th, 2026.