We're Hiring! Executive Assistant - March 2024

Are you motivated to create equitable, connected, and sustainable communities where all individuals thrive? Do you feel energized by actively supporting a CEO, Board of Directors, and team that are collaborating with others to provide funding and investments to charities and social purpose organizations? Do you enjoy being the “person who wears many hats” to keep an office running? If so, Waterloo Region Community Foundation is looking for you to join our team as the Executive Assistant.

The Executive Assistant is a full-time, continuing role that reports to WRCF’s President & CEO, and is accountable for providing support to the President & CEO, WRCF’s Board of Directors, and managing the day-to-day office operations of WRCF. The successful candidate has a focus on providing excellent service, and a proven ability to develop and nurture relationships. They must be committed to listening, learning and working together with others, and participating actively in community-building.

They should be extremely detail-oriented, have excellent writing skills, be interested in managing IT requirements and policies and processes – while at the same time be ready to pull together materials for a presentation or report.

Compensation: $45,000 - $55,000 (based on a 37.5 hour work week), plus a competitive benefits package. Currently, employees work both on-site and remotely, and this role includes an expectation of a majority of in-office days weekly.

WRCF is an equity-conscious employer committed to equity, anti-oppression, diversity and supporting the wellbeing of all our employees. We provide inclusive employment opportunities without regard to race, colour, religion, nationality, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or any other status that is representative of equity & sovereign seeking groups.

All qualified individuals are encouraged to consider working with us including those who are;
First Nations, Inuit and Métis, Black, people living with disabilities, ethnocultural religious identities (e.g. Muslim, Sikh, Jewish), and 2

SLGBTQIA+.

If you are an applicant who requires accommodations, please let us know in advance so that we may arrange for their provision. We provide accommodations at all stages of the recruitment and hiring process under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) is a public foundation focused on Granting, Impact Investing and Mobilizing to make measurable and sustainable impacts in Waterloo Region. As one of 202 Community Foundations across Canada, we collaborate with partners, connect regionally and locally, working with three cities and four townships – to include the people and places across our region, using a trust-based philanthropic approach.

Together, we seize opportunities to meet current and future needs of our community. We enable people, companies and organizations to do more good by making it easy for Fund holders and donors to give and invest, and for charities to receive money. Gifts are directed to WRCF’s endowed funds that drive positive change in two ways: through grants and impact investments that deliver both financial returns as well as positive social and environmental outcomes.

We work with our Fund holders to distribute the income generated through grants to support a wide range of charitable causes within our community; in 2023 we granted $8.2 Million to 429 charities and non-profits organizations, bringing our total granting impact to $81 Million since inception. As a leading community-building organization, we also work to amplify voices and issues of importance by convening conversations and sharing information, while approaching our work with an equity mindset.

Waterloo Region Community Foundation pays all permanent and contract staff a Living Wage. We also encourage all organizations that apply for funding to request enough to enable them to pay their staff a living wage.

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