Manager Development
Permanent Remote | Ontario, Canada
Compensation Range
$90KCompensation will be determined based on the successful candidate's experience, skills, and qualifications, and may also be influenced by internal equity and market conditions.
Description
- Manage the development portfolio and pipeline from intaking of new opportunities, qualifying, identifying scope, resources, and making a go/no go decision, to active projects, renewals, risks, and capacity.
- Work with the Director to create, implement, and deliver new programs and services, in alignment with the Organization’s mission and strategic priorities, determine resource requirements and tools.
- Oversee the preparation and submission of business proposals led by development managers, ensuring quality, alignment, and timely completion.
- Assist in the formulation of job descriptions, hiring, onboarding, training, and retention of members of the development team.
- Provide leadership, technical guidance, coaching, support, and project oversight to a team of development managers to fulfil project deliverables within budget and on time.
- Set quarterly goals with each Development Manager and track progress; hold regular check-ins, and addresses issues early.
- Lead regular portfolio meeting to assess team capacity, prioritize work, and unblock delivery barriers. Ensure workload is focused on priority outcomes, makes recommendations to staff on what to stop, delay, or simplify when capacity is tight.
- Grow and develop the development team ensuring the team understands and is committed to achieving a common objective. Provide support, coaching and corrective action where necessary. Ensures that all staff adhere to company policies and procedures.
- Oversee development-owned projects toward achievement of quantifiable deliverables, ensuring every project has a clear owner, roles, timeline, budget, and reporting schedule. Step in when projects go off track to reset scope, resourcing, timelines, and partner expectations.
- Build and maintain practical tools that make the team more consistent and efficient, including templates, checklists, playbooks, etc.
- Run simple debriefs after major milestones to capture lessons learned and improve how the development team works.
- Put basic structure around key partner stewardship: partner plans, reporting deadlines, renewal timelines. Monitor relationship risks and surface issues early.
- Work collaboratively with Communications team for proper messaging, promotion, launch, and sales collateral for all products and services. Ensure the integrity of the Organization’s brand in all communication materials.
- Clarify handoffs and responsibilities between Develop team and Programs / Communications / Operations teams. Reduce friction by making ownership, next steps, and timelines explicit across teams; make use of ClickUp project management tool.
- Provide regular reporting to the Director (weekly snapshot, monthly summary, and quarterly performance report. Escalate risks, resourcing issues, or decision points early.
Qualifications
- University degree in public administration or business administration, or experience in related field. Relevant work experience could compensate for the degree requirements
- 5+ years of related management experience leading teams in project management, program operations, business development operations, or a related field
- Demonstrated success in people management, setting performance goals, coaching employees, and supporting accountability.
- Strong project and portfolio management skills; including planning, budgeting, risk management and progress reporting.
- Strong collaboration, coordination and stakeholder management skills across multiple teams.
- Proficient with project management systems and tools (ClickUp or comparable work management platform).
- Experience in non-profit, housing, government, or partnership-heavy environments is an asset.
- Understanding of the community housing sector, government investments and programs
- Understand procurement process, proposal development, and contractual agreements in depth and maintain a strategic perspective to optimize negotiation, development, execution, and monitoring.
- General understanding of HR process, knowledge about unions and how they work
- Understanding of and adherence to the social values and operational objectives of the Organization
- Bilingual in English and French is strongly preferred
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