Job Opportunity: Projects & Racial Equity Impact Lead
Organization: Centre for Family Equity
Location: Remote within British Columbia. Applicants must live in British Columbia. Applications outside of BC will not be reviewed.
Job Type: Full-time (35 hours/week); some evening work that engages community members in project meetings and activities is required; potential for some provincial travel.
Salary: $75,000/year; initial employment term through the end of March 2029, with renewal dependent on funding.
Benefits: Extended health benefits + 5 weeks paid vacation + statutory holidays
Application Deadline: Sunday, June 21st, 2026, at 4 pm Pacific Time
Desired start date: ASAP / early (preferred) up to mid July 2026
About the Role
The Centre for Family Equity (CFE) is seeking a big-picture thinker who wants to have a strategic impact implementing dynamic, community-led projects and initiatives to transform inequitable systems and policies to end family poverty in BC.
The Projects & Racial Equity Impact Lead will lead our K-12 Without Racism project (a 4-year project ending in March 2029) and partner with the executive director to design, lead, and manage the CFE’s portfolio of community-engaged projects with a racial equity lens, while collaborating deeply with the rest of the CFE team. This project lead role bridges multi-channel project management with advocacy, campaigning, and knowledge mobilization to directly impact change. This role also collaborates closely with our Community Engagement and Research Lead and Decolonization and Engagement Coordinator.
We seek candidates with strong skills in leading deeply community-engaged projects to impact transformational systemic advocacy outcomes in the areas of law reform, policy advocacy and systems change.
The CFE has grown significantly over the last couple of years; this is a good opportunity for a strong project manager interested in helping to strengthen and lead a small and powerful non-profit team that celebrates deep lived and professional experience.
About our Organization
At the Centre for Family Equity, we are 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, 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
· Lead our K-12 Without Racism project, working closely with project staff in the Decolonizing & Engagement Coordinator role.
· With support from the Executive Director and an implementation partnership from the Research and Community Engagement Lead, provide project leadership for the CFE’s engagement, law reform, and advocacy projects applying a racial equity lens.
· This includes:
-Coordinating overall project delivery within established timelines and using available resources;
o Organizing and participating in project activities, meetings, and project groups; however, this work may be shared and/or delegated to other staff roles depending on the project;
o Coordinating and working directly with strong project community-based Peer Leads, Advisory Circles, and parent peer leaders;
o Providing content and data to communications staff for project communications documents such as outreach materials, letters, reports, policy briefs, and other materials;
o Strategic development of outreach and recruitment channels to reach research and engagement participants;
o Implementing our Decolonizing and Well-being Framework across our projects
o Timely coordination of project reporting both for the public and to funders with operations/communications staff;
o Budgeting and financial oversight of project expenses; and
o Overseeing campaign-related project activities, such as outreach, effective knowledge mobilization, and systemic advocacy/lobbying to translate project learnings into systemic change.
· Collaborate with the executive director and staff to source, design and secure resources for emerging, timely new projects and initiatives.
· Collaborate with the executive director and others on fundraising proposals, with a focus on project design and project impact.
Manage relationships with project collaborators and contractors.
· Work within a deeply trauma-informed context.
· Model a healthy workplace culture, including (1) a commitment to justice, equity, human rights, accessibility, and decolonization, and (2) a commitment to healthy work/life boundaries and rhythms of rest and recovery.
· In the future, this role may become responsible for managing one or more CFE colleagues.
· Please note that this role is not responsible for direct research or community engagement data collection, or the management of our partnered academic research projects, including BREB ethics applications. This role will generally support our Community Engagement and Research Lead as they oversee our research projects and data collection, and support outreach and overall big picture project management, but is not responsible for leading such projects in full.
Who You Are
You are a skilled community-engaged project manager in a non-profit, academic, or similar context, with strong skills and experience in racial justice work and systemic advocacy. You thrive in small teams and are comfortable in growing organizations that have plenty of energy and innovation and that are continually building and evolving the systems, processes, and infrastructure that underpin our shared work. You are comfortable both in a front-line community-based setting and at a formal meeting presenting law reform priorities to political decision-makers.
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.
You are interested in leading our K-12 Without Racism project through its remaining 3 years and, ideally, would be interested in staying with our organization beyond that, while recognizing the position is funding-dependent.
Key Qualifications:
· 3-5 years of project management experience in a relevant context.
· Knowledge related to anti-racism and racial equity changemaking and work.
· Ability to oversee and manage a portfolio of projects at all different stages (engagement, law reform, and advocacy multi-year projects)
· Experience in community-led and/or community-engaged racial equity projects and advocacy; lived experience as a racialized person is highly valued.
· Experience supporting community leaders in advocacy, lobbying, and impacting change directly with policymakers and elected decision-makers.
· Knowledge of community organizing, mobilizing, advocacy, lobbying and government timelines, government relations, political context of BC, and municipal, provincial, federal, and Indigenous contexts.
· Understanding of how community-engaged research projects function and some knowledge of participatory action research.
· Keen understanding of how to move project elements to directly impact systemic change, including some knowledge of advocacy campaigns, organizing, and mobilizing strategy and tactics.
· Skilled in building relationships, coalitions, and impact networks.
· 2+ years of project budget or transferable financial project management experience
· Demonstrated integrity, ethics, and sound judgment in a non-profit, research, advocacy, and/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.
· Desire to work with a passionate team involved in advocacy and research.
· 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, human rights, diversity, decolonization, and accessibility into practice.
· 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 small non-profit context.
· Management and/or coordination experience, especially in a non-profit or community-serving context.
· Experience managing research projects or grants, including application development, implementation, and reporting.
· Experience managing risk in an organizational context.
· Customer service and/or frontline service provision experience, preferably in the area of poverty and/or gender-based violence
· Formal education related to social policy, human rights, advocacy, non-profit or business administration, financial management, or another area of our work.
How to Apply
We will review applications on a rolling basis up to 4 pm on Sunday, June 21st 2026. Deadline may be extended if need be. 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: [email protected].
Please submit written applications (both your resume and cover letter) as one PDF with the file name format ‘Last name First name Projects and Racial Equity Impact Lead.’ Thank you.
We thank all applicants for their interest. Only those who are shortlisted will be contacted for interviews. We do not have the capacity to respond to every application. If you do not hear from us by 5 pm on Monday, June 22nd, you are not on the shortlist. Please do not inquire by email. 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, with the week of June 22nd, containing both a phone screening and an up to 3-hour practical assignment:
· A short phone screening call with short-listed candidates: June 22nd, 23rd
· A time-limited practical round (modest honorarium offered): ideally June 23rd to 26th.
· An interview via videocall: June 29th, 30th
· 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 within the first week of July, ideally by July 3rd. We hope that the successful candidate will be available to start by July 6th, if possible and overall, by mid-July.
Thank you very much for your interest in working at the Centre for Family Equity.
We look forward to reading your application.
Pay: $75,000.00 per year
Work Location: Remote
