Operations & Capacity-Building Lead

Job Opportunity: Operations & Capacity-Building Lead

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: $39,375/year for an initial 1-year contract with potential to renew (depending on funding). Position is equivalent to $75,000 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

About the Role

The Centre for Family Equity (CFE) is seeking an Operations & Capacity-Building Lead with strong skills in financial administration who enjoys leading operations for an organization that is in a consistent phase of growth and growing capacity. This role will be a key partner for the executive director, building out systems, processes, and organizational infrastructure needed by the organization after a period of rapid growth. This role will be key to embedding our values and commitment to equity into our day-to-day operations through our Decolonizing and WellBeing Framework. 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 a long-term fit. 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, legal action and law reform. Our programs and initiatives are led by the communities we serve, 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 justice, 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

Financial Management (50-60%)

• With support from the executive director, lead budgeting, cashflow projections, grant/restricted funding stream management, including salary allocations, annual review engagement or audit, and monthly and quarterly actuals tracking and analysis.
• Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable, including expense claims, honoraria, Health Spending Account administration, and contractor payments.
• Working with our external bookkeeper, ensure payroll is completed accurately and that paid time off is accurately and accessibly tracked.
• Liaise with external bookkeeper and others as needed to ensure all weekly transactions are accurately coded and filed, and a clean audit trail is maintained.
• Collaborate with the executive director on fundraising proposals, with a focus on budget development.

Compliance & Reporting (10-20%)

• Prepare financial reports for funders.
• Ensure that regular filings such as our T3010 Charity Return, WorkSafe premium payment, Societies registry, and other reporting are completed accurately and on time.

General Operations & Capacity-Building (15-30%; this could grow over time as hours increase)

• Lead and support efforts to embed equity and our organization’s values into all our day-to-day systems and practices.

o Impact and implement our Decolonizing and Well-Being Framework

• Support organizational development of systems, processes, policies, and infrastructure to meet the organization’s needs at this stage of growth.
• Manages procurement guidelines, policies, and/or preferred suppliers (using an equity lens), coordinates vendor relationships, contracts, and purchase agreements.
• Support the executive director in her People & Culture responsibilities, with a focus on process coordination, templates, and systems (e.g. recruitment, performance management, extended health benefits plan management, etc.).
• From time to time, support advocacy and project logistics and procurement, e.g. venue, travel, and accommodation bookings.
• Support donor stewardship efforts, such as donor thank you and recognition.
• Work with the executive director to support key grant-writing coordination and preparation of budget proposals.
• Support effective governance processes (e.g. support the executive director in preparing materials for board meetings, coordinating governance operations, etc.).
• Ensure that tech systems, software, hardware, training, and digital security practices are meeting organizational needs.
• Partner with the executive director to hold an organization-wide view of risk management, including organizational insurance and organization-wide safety and emergency planning.
• 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 operations generalist in a non-profit or similar context, with strong experience in managing finances, including restricted funding streams. You enjoy the energy of a ‘start-up’like rapid growth phase and are adept at identifying priorities for building out systems, processes, and infrastructure. You are deeply committed to equitable ways of working together in a non-profit team and have experience putting that commitment into practice. You are highly collaborative while also being conscientious and self-directed. Lived experience of the issues and realities addressed by our organization is recognized as a strong asset, as this informs 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 the position is funding dependent.

Key Qualifications:

• 3+ years of financial management experience, including restricted funding streams.
• 2+ years of direct bookkeeping experience or experience working directly with a bookkeeper to code expenses, manage expense claims, etc. Comfort with QuickBooks Online (or a similar system) strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated integrity, ethics, and sound judgment in a non-profit, advocacy, or community-serving context.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office Suite (Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe PDFs; familiarity with Calendly, Nation Builder, Jot Form, and Canva is an asset. Ability to evaluate and use new technologies. Advanced Excel skills preferred.
• Desire to work with a passionate team involved in advocacy and research.
• Desire to build out operations systems, policies, processes, and infrastructure for a growing non-profit. Ability to think strategically, identify priorities, organize, implement, and stay grounded when things are busy and exciting.
• Ability to translate your commitment to justice, equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion into action in an operations context.
• Ability to communicate clearly and build relationships of trust, including with people with different identities and life experiences from you. Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with others, including problem solving, delegating, coaching, 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 non-profit governance (paid or volunteer).
• Experience in a start-up context, particularly in building out systems, processes, policies, and infrastructure to support a values-driven team.
• Experience with non-profit and charity compliance filings in a Canadian or transferable context.
• Management and/or coordination experience, especially in a non-profit or communityserving context. Experience holding human resources or management responsibilities with employees covered by BC’s Employment Standards Act (or similar legislation in another jurisdiction).
• Experience managing human resources / people ops systems (e.g. timesheets, time off tracking, emergency contacts, etc.).
• Experience managing IT/tech in an office or non-profit setting; knowledge of digital security best practices.
• Experience managing research projects or grants, including both application development, implementation, and reporting.
• Experience managing risk in an organizational context.
• Customer service and/or frontline service provision experience.
• Formal education related to social policy, human rights, advocacy, non-profit or business administration, financial management, human resources, 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 (both you resume and cover letter) as one PDF with the file name format ‘Last name First name Operations’. 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 in order 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 16-23rd.
• A time-limited practical round (modest honorarium offered): ideally April 26-28.
• 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 by the first week of May. We hope that the successful candidate will be available to start before/by May 15th, 2026.