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CCC Employment Opportunity: Events and Outreach Specialist

Application Deadline: December 15, 2024, 11:59 PM 

Anticipated Start Date: January 2025 

Join the CCC Team! 

You are passionate about growing a healthy, green and resilient future in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. You bring diverse strengths, connections and interests to support major programs for healthy landscapes and advance a collective conservation strategy for the Carolinian Zone of southern Ontario.    

 

We tailor work experience to leverage your skill sets and learning objectives.  We value diverse contributions, lived experience, training and expertise. Self-motivated employees benefit from networking and impact opportunities available through multi-partner Big Picture platforms.   

 

You will use your skills in project management, event planning, network development, and communications to accelerate healthy landscapes in partnership with native plants, diverse groups and individuals. The successful applicant will implement a dynamic outreach and engagement strategy including a flagship annual expo to reconcile peoples and ecosystems. 

Compensation: $25,000 - $30,000 for 6 month full-time (with potential to renew) 

Location: Remote office – your base near London, ON (preferred), with travel in the Carolinian Zone ecoregion (between Toronto and Windsor) 

Job Responsibilities 

As part of the Network and Communications Team, you will support the growth of the Carolinian network and healthy landscapes with a focus on: 

 

  • Coordinating event logistics including a major public-facing expo, workshops, forum, and other outreach activities (65%) 

  • Working with Communications Team to help implement a dynamic outreach communications strategy with diverse approaches to engage the Carolinian network in growth of healthy landscapes (25%) 

  • Participate in teamwork to contribute to a strong and positive workplace (10%): 

    • Support for creation of ethical, brave, and/or safe spaces and other anti-oppression initiatives 

    • Positive relationship-building with a diverse network 

    • Other duties as needed 

 

Qualifications 

  • Commitment to expanding brave, safe and ethical space with Two-Eyed Seeing approaches 
  • Experience coordinating events, sponsorships and promotion 
  • Strong teamwork, organizational, work-planning, communication, networking and partnership-building skills 
  • Ability to deal with multiple needs in an ever-changing environment and apply good judgement and tact to address complex issues 
  • Able to thrive in a virtual workplace – hours are flexible and may fluctuate 
  • Personal office space with computer, phone and high-speed internet  
  • Proficiency in technology and ability to quickly learn new software. We use: Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Acrobat, Canva, Zoom, Drupal Website CMS, and Shopify, among others. 

  

Assets 

  • Familiarity with diverse groups near London, Ontario related to Indigenous leadership, gardening, small business, social enterprise, corporate or environment 

  • Demonstrated interest in nature and/or the environment 

  • Lived experience in racialized communities or braiding knowledge systems 

  • Access to transportation to work in rural and urban areas 

  

Equal Opportunity 

We value diversity and inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourage all qualified applicants to apply.   

Please let us know if you require accommodation during the recruitment process. 

Application Process 

Send an email to jobs@carolinian.org with the subject line “EVOS2024” and attach your cover letter and resumé. Please ensure you include your name and contact information in the email.  

Applications will be kept on file for six (6) months.  

We thank all candidates for their application. Only those chosen for an interview will receive a reply. 

 

Carolinian Canada Coalition (CCC) is a network of leaders growing healthy landscapes for a green future in the Carolinian Zone, Canada’s extraordinary far south, in the spirit and practice of reconciliation. We connect ecology, economy and ethics to address ecosystem and climate crises in southern Ontario. 

Our cross-sector platforms connect 300 groups, 6,000 volunteers and 37,000 hectares to save local wildlife, water and our way of life; and support 14 UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

We live on the traditional territories of many nations including the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee, the Lunaapeew, the Wendat and the Mississauga. We acknowledge the inherent and treaty rights of the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island including the many, diverse First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples who live here now. We commit to the teachings the Two Row Wampum and the One Dish One Spoon Wampum; and our duty to reconcile, learn more and create safe spaces for Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives to meet and discuss the issues that matter to everyone. 

Carolinian Canada Coalition is a Canadian Registered Charity 83559 4722.