Your Opportunity
Rise is seeking a highly organized and resourceful professional to provide coordination services to our programs team as a Bilingual Women+ Program Coordinator from July 2026 to April 2027. Reporting to the training programs manager, this is an exciting opportunity to help our small but mighty team deliver results and impact for our Women+ Entrepreneurship Program. This is a contract opportunity, with an estimated part-time commitment of approximately 28 hours per week over the course of the contract. Due to the nature of our work, there will be periods where more or less time will be required.
Our training programs form an integral element of our offering and are often the first exposure to entrepreneurship for many of our clients. Specifically, we’re looking for a driven candidate with a client first mentality to take charge of the logistical and outreach rollout for the Women+ Entrepreneurship
Program’s cohorts and activities across Canada. Dealing with concurrent projects and a positive attitude to getting the job done are critical expectations for the successful candidate.2
In addition to program coordination responsibilities, the successful candidate will support the marketing team’s efforts in representing the Rise brand, voice, and online presence across our website and social media channels. This will also include outreach activities with key identified communities, including Francophones and the Prairies.
Conducting outreach to drive recruitment and supporting marketing initiatives in both official languages is essential to this role. By keeping things running smoothly behind the scenes and creating a welcoming environment for learning, the bilingual women+ program coordinator will be integral to the success of Rise’s high-impact Women+ Entrepreneurship Program, which is helping to change lives for gender-diverse people nationwide.
Finding the right person for the job
This position is open to bilingual candidates from across Canada to be filled remotely, or as a hybrid role if located in the Greater Toronto Area.
Rise is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace. We actively seek gender diverse, racialized and indigenous persons, people with disabilities (including people who have experienced mental health and addiction challenges), and additional diverse identities for our team.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Women+ Program Coordination
- Cultivate and maintain a Canada-wide list of outreach partners working in Rise’s areas of interest, including employment support agencies, social service agencies that work with women+ clients on social assistance, community mental health agencies, and other community organizations.
- With support from both programs and marketing teams, roll out a marketing and outreach plan to reach key audiences and drive recruitment for the women+ program and promote the Rise brand, specifically in Francophone communities across Canada.
- Conduct comprehensive screening and selection processes to assess applications for fit for the French cohorts.
- Serve as a client liaison and disseminate important communications to all clients
participating in women+ program cohorts and events.
- Arrange all program logistics, including technical support for workshops, client materials
preparation, pitch session and graduation execution.
- Manage and animate teaching platforms for the delivery of the program, including Zoom
and Slack.
- Support facilitators, mentors and speakers with any administrative and logistical tasks.
- Deliver on special projects related to the women+ program and marketing initiatives.3
Marketing Coordination
- Act as the marketing and communications liaison to the women+ program, collaborating with the Rise marketing and communications team to ensure all program materials, client communications and marketing activities adhere to Rise brand standards and are aligned to the broader marketing strategy.
- Lead on the development and coordination of women+ program communications materials in coordination with the marketing team.
- Support Rise to coordinate and collect women+ client stories and testimonials for use in
program marketing and brand promotion.
- Manage Rise’s French presence across its social media channels, including responding to direct messages and comments and identifying/monitoring any online issues/brand risks in the Francophone community.
- Support development, design and translation of social media posts and paid advertisements into French.
- Inform Rise’s marketing and outreach strategy, particularly with the nuances of Francophone communities.
Evaluation and Reporting
- Ensure that any program and marketing deliverables are tracked, and all relevant key performance indicators are collected and achieved.
- Coordinate and ensure that students complete the pre- and post-program surveys and take part in focus group interviews as directed.
- Make recommendations to management for program improvements.
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS
- University degree in education, social work, business, marketing or similar fields. A combination of relevant education and work experience may be considered.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in program coordination, education, marketing & outreach or similar fields, ideally in a non-profit environment.
- Marketing and outreach experience using digital and traditional marketing tools.
- Experience using online communication platforms (ie, Meta Business Suite, Ads Manager, Google Analytics) and social scheduling tools, specifically HeyOrca, is considered an asset.
- Project management experience, including reporting, multi-stage processes and procedures.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office 365, especially Excel, Word and SharePoint, as well as Zoom and Slack.
- Fully bilingual in French and English, both orally and written.
ASSETS
- Direct experience balancing client-facing and administrative responsibilities, ideally within a social services environment.
- Interest in working with people who face barriers to employment and financial stability,
and/or individuals who have experienced mental health or addiction.
- Existing networks and relationships with potential partners to drive pipeline development.
- Experience building networks with multiple parties and agencies (connections).
- Experience with Salesforce, or similar CRM systems.
- Experience with curriculum and or training programs, including recruitment.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Independent self-starter with a dedication to achieving and exceeding goals and objectives.
- Strong administrative skills with the ability to juggle several projects simultaneously.
- Tenacious and deadline-driven.
- Strong communication skills for both external and internal audiences.
- Skilled at building relationships with a cross section of culturally- and socioeconomically-diverse personalities.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
This is a part-time fixed-term contract role ending on April 30, 2027. The salary expectation for this role is prorated to $42,000-$45,000 for a 28-hour workweek. As a fixed-term contract employee of Rise, the selected candidate will be eligible for our pro- rated vacation, personal days and non-statutory days off.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
While we thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected for interviews will be contacted. Accommodation for disabilities will be provided on request throughout the recruitment process.
To apply for this exciting opportunity, please send your resume and cover letter by 5:00 p.m. ET on July 31, 2026, to [email protected] and include “Bilingual Women+ Program Coordinator” and your name in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, as they are received.
Pay: $42,000.00-$45,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
