Director, Union Participation & Resource Development

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As part of the Resource Development team, you can connect UWBC's fundraising priorities, department goals, and the goals of the Labour movement. You are a leader for union-linked fundraising and engagement initiatives spanning from major Labour-linked campaigns to education & training. You are a steward of positive relations with Labour movement representatives, UWBC departments, community partners, and more.

The Director, Union Participation and Resource Development is a member of the Resource Development department, which includes Corporate Partnerships, New Business, and Philanthropy. The role is primarily responsible for fundraising, engagement, and stewardship with the Labour movement while supporting Resource Development priorities and organizational revenue goals. It is also responsible for stewarding United Way’s partnership with the Canandian Labour Congress in British Columbia and it’s members.

Reporting to the Chief Development Officer (CDO), the Director develops and implements integrated fundraising, stewardship, partnership, education, and engagement strategies that strengthen the relationship between UWBC and Labour partners while advancing organizational revenue and relationship goals.

The role works collaboratively with the Resource Development team, UWBC staff, volunteers, Board committees, Labour leaders and committees, and relevant community partners to cultivate and steward relationships, support workplace and union-linked campaigns, deliver Labour-focused programming, and identify opportunities where Labour and United Way priorities intersect.

• Develops and implements annual fundraising plans for assigned union-linked accounts, programs, projects, events, and stakeholder groups.
• Sets financial and non-financial fundraising goals and develops campaign, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and renewal strategies.
• Independently analyzes data and prepares plans for account growth, donor engagement, prospect development, and stewardship.
• Works with Resource Development colleagues across Corporate Partnerships, New Business, and Philanthropy to support annual campaign goals, workplace fundraising, donor engagement, and campaign reporting.
• Identifies new revenue opportunities where Labour, workplaces, community partners, and UWBC priorities intersect.
• Maintains systems for accountability, tracking, reporting, and follow-up related to assigned fundraising activities.
• Aligns fundraising strategy with Resource Development departmental priorities and UWBC organizational…