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Development and Communications Manager
Position Type: 37.5 hours per week, full-time permanent
Program Area: Development and Communications
Program sub-area:Development
Hours: 1.0 FTE – 37.5 hours per week
Compensation: Level 3 of 5: $29.00 to $40.00 per hour commensurate with experience.
Apply by Wednesday December 4th 2024 at 11:59pm. Please email your application (resume and cover letter) with the subject line: “Development and Communications Manager” addressed to Kevin Smith, Executive Director at careers@hat.bc.ca. Please include three references in your application.
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Position Summary: The Development and Communications Manager reports directly to the Executive Director and works closely with HAT’s other staff, contractors, partners and funders to encourage donations and funding for HAT’s programs and projects. The DCM’s role is to lead the development, implementation and coordination of fundraising and communications strategies focused on grant proposals, donor development and membership drives that serve to promote HAT’s stewardship mission. The DCM also leads the creation and production of communications materials related to membership and soliciting donations consistent with HAT’s mission, vision, and values. The position is responsible for membership cultivation and member relations, major gifts, as well as leading the creation and implementation of HAT’s overall development strategy. The DCM also leads campaigns for capital and (land) acquisitions through public outreach, donation support and administration, and other opportunities as they become available. The position also maintains HAT’s donor database/customer relationship management.
About Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT)
Habitat Acquisition Trust (HAT) is a Victoria-based land trust working with our community to protect habitat within the Capital Regional District (CRD). HAT works and stewards ecosystems as visitors in the traditional and unceded territories of the Lekwungen, W̱SÁNEĆ, SC’IȺNEW, and T'Sou-ke Nations; who have lived in relationship with and stewarded these lands since time immemorial and continue to live in relationship to the Land today. Our mission is to conserve natural spaces on southern Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands through land acquisition, legal protection of private land, restoration, education, and stewardship programs. We work closely with community groups, government, individual landowners, and indigenous communities to coordinate effective habitat conservation projects.
