Remote Lead, Community

If you're excited about building systems that empower others to lead and want to help shape Canada's next generation of entrepreneurial, AI-ready talent for the future of work, we'd love to hear from you!

Venture for Canada is a national registered charity equipping talent across Canada with the entrepreneurial skills, mindset, and opportunities to succeed in a 21st-century economy increasingly shaped by rapid change and emerging technology. We believe that to be entrepreneurial is to act upon opportunities to create value for others. The resourcefulness and creativity of people across Canada are essential to addressing our country's greatest challenges.

Venture for Canada serves as a catalyst by empowering individuals to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and innovative society.

Since 2013, Venture for Canada has grown in meaningful ways, and we're excited to expand our team with values-aligned individuals who can contribute to what we're building. To learn more about our hiring process and workplace philosophy, visit our Careers page.

Venture for Canada's program communities are our most important asset. Every year, thousands of participants, alumni, mentors, employer partners, and supporters engage with Venture for Canada through our programs, creating a national network that shares a common orientation toward entrepreneurship, innovation, and impact.

We are looking for a Community Lead who leads with curiosity and empathy, who invests first in understanding what community members value and then designs experiences, in-person and virtual, that deliver on that understanding. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated track record building and growing communities from early inception through to maturity, developing the strategies, offerings, and engagement rhythms that move a group from a loose network to a cohesive and active community.

This role sits at the intersection of community strategy and experience design. The Community Lead is responsible for strengthening the communities that form around Venture for Canada's programs, creating opportunities for participants and alumni to build lasting relationships, continue learning, and contribute back through mentorship, leadership, and volunteerism. Working collaboratively across the organization, the role also helps connect these communities to broader organizational priorities, including participant recruitment, employer engagement, storytelling, and strategic partnerships, while ensuring community members continue to receive meaningful value from their relationship with Venture for Canada.

• Analyze our base across multiple programs, cohorts, and stakeholder groups
• Develop meaningful audience segments
• Identify high-potential groups for activation and engagement-building

• Grow a defined group of key community members who regularly participate in events and initiatives
• Identify and nurture highly-engaged individuals as champions, contributors, and connectors
• Create opportunities for relationship building across programs

• Develop clear ways for community to engage beyond attending events (e.g., mentoring, speaking, supporting programs)
• Collaborate with program teams to connect community to meaningful opportunities
• Ensure community feel connected both to their original program and the broader network

• Develop strategies that encourage community members to become ambassadors, advocates, mentors, and champions for Venture for Canada
• Collaborate with External Affairs to activate the community in support of participant recruitment, employer engagement, partnership development, fundraising, and thought leadership
• Identify opportunities to leverage community stories, expertise, and networks to strengthen Venture for Canada's reputation and ecosystem presence

• Manage and evolve core engagement channels (e.g., newsletter, Slack, social platforms)
• Improve the effectiveness of communications through segmentation and targeting
• Ensure consistent, high-quality touchpoints that keep the community connected over time
• Develop engagement journeys that deepen long-term relationships with community members and create opportunities for ongoing participation across Venture for Canada's programs and initiatives

• You are energized by bringing people together and creating…