Employment opportunity: Fundraising Co-Manager
Application deadline: Friday, August 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM ET
Salary: $82,074
If you believe that:
- Social change is possible
- Feminist principles and process can help change the world
- Social justice activists, in Canada and the Global South, can support and learn from each other
- You have a contribution to make in helping strengthen and manage a Canadian organization devoted to the promotion of social justice and human rights around the world
…you may be interested in applying for a Fundraising Co-Manager position at Inter Pares, a social justice organization based in Canada. Inter Pares works with more than 70 social justice organizations across 15 countries, including Canada, to build peace, advance justice and globalize equality.
Inter Pares is a non-hierarchical organization where full-time staff co-manage the institution through consensus-based decision-making. Though everyone plays a different role, we share equal responsibilities, equal participation in decision making and an equal base salary. The successful candidate will be part of the co-management team and will be expected to share responsibility for Inter Pares’ financial, administrative, and political well-being and direction. All co-managers participate in management committees, administration, raising funds, donor relations, board relations, external representation and public engagement.
The Fundraising Program Manager position
The Fundraising Co-Manager will build and strengthen relationships with new and existing Inter Pares donors, with emphasis on major donors. They will be required to collaborate with fundraising and program managers to research, develop, implement and assess strategies for various fundraising streams (major gifts, direct mail, foundations, digital). They will engage program managers and the Board of Directors to support fundraising efforts and build donor relationships. They will be required to monitor internal and external fundraising trends and adapt strategies as needed. This position is full-time, based in Ottawa.
Responsibilities of the Fundraising Co-Manager
- Coordinate the Major Gifts program, including taking the lead on work planning and strategy building, collaborating with staff to identify and implement stewardship and acquisition opportunities, monitoring results and adjusting course as needed
- Cultivate and strengthen relationships with Inter Pares donors (particularly major donors) and prospective donors through identifying opportunities for and initiating personalized engagements via in-person meetings, virtual interactions and/or phone conversations. This could include identifying opportunities to travel within Canada to represent Inter Pares and build relationships with donors and prospective donors
- Develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to cultivate, steward, and grow relationships with mid-level donors
- Participate in donor acquisition and retention, including supporting existing projects and developing new strategies
- Collaborate with the fundraising and communications team to create donor engagement materials and campaigns, including generating content ideas and writing and editing fundraising appeals, thank-you letters and donor reports
- Coordinate foundation grant proposals and reports, in collaboration with program managers
- Collaborate with fundraisers and the finance team to complete various administrative tasks, including managing a yearly fundraising budget and reconciling donation data between Raisers Edge NXT and SAGE
- Use Raisers Edge NXT to review donor profiles, track donor engagements and interactions, and generate reports to inform strategy
- Monitor and report on fundraising results to staff and the Board of Directors
- Lead and/or participate in various management committees, including the Major Gifts Committee, Foundations Committee and Finance Committee
The candidate should have the following experience, skills, and attributes:
- Solid experience and/or aptitudes in all of the above responsibilities
- Technical experience with CRM's, comfortable working in multiple donor databases.
- Experience in Fundraising in the charitable sector
- Demonstrable commitment to social justice, intersectional feminist principles, equity, anti-racism and anti-oppression.
- Commitment to collective work and the ability to work in a team and without direct supervision; experience in a non-hierarchical structure is a major asset
- Excellent writing skills, attention to detail, and an ability to write for a variety of audiences (see below for language requirements)
- Good interpersonal skills and experience with and/or enthusiasm for consensus decision-making and group process
- Demonstrated analytical abilities and capacity to think and work strategically and creatively
- Financial management, administrative and organizational skills
- Willingness to work evenings and weekends on occasion; availability to travel within Canada or internationally is an asset (a contribution towards childcare expenses for the above is accessible)
Language requirements
- Excellent writing, speaking, and editing skills in English and French (will be assessed during the hiring)
Salary and benefits
Inter Pares’ 2025 co-management salary starts at $82,074. The position also comes with a generous benefits package that includes extended health and dental coverage, life insurance, retirement planning benefits, and a staff wellbeing fund. All new staff begin with four weeks of vacation that is prorated in the first year. Vacation days also increase with seniority in length of time at Inter Pares.
Workplace
The position is based in our office in Ottawa, which is centrally located close to downtown and is readily accessible by public transit and bike lanes. (Note that the building is not currently fully wheelchair-accessible, but the upper floor is accessible via an elevator lift.) Inter Pares has a hybrid work model. For newly hired staff, in-office presence is required for 30 days during the first 60 business days (three months) of onboarding. In-office presence is required for all staff at least five days per month (excepting summers), which must include all in-person program and staff meetings (these occur on the first and third Wednesday of each month).
Start date
The ideal start date is September 22, 2025 (to be negotiated with the selected candidate)
Application process
Candidates must have legal permission to work in Canada. Interested persons should submit their CV and a cover letter in English elaborating why they are interested in working at Inter Pares and the skills and experience they would contribute. Please fill this survey and do not forget to upload your CV and cover letter. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
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Candidates must be available for interviews between August 11 to 29, 2025. As Inter Pares uses consensus-based decision-making, the shortlisted candidate will then have an additional 5-8 small-group conversations with the rest of the co-management team, ideally between September 1 to 9, before a final hiring decision. These are two-way conversations, so that the candidate can also ask questions and learn more before deciding to join, if invited.
The primary interview will be in English and French. The interview will also include a writing test in both English and French. We are happy to provide an accessible interview and employment environment and accommodation if required. Inter Pares assumes reasonable interview-related expenses; as compensation for time spent engaging with our interview process, all candidates who reach the interview stage will also be paid commensurate with current co-management salary, prorated by the hour.
Inter Pares is committed to working within an anti-racism, anti-oppression, and anti-colonial framework, and recognizes that systemic privilege and oppression have strongly shaped staffing patterns in international cooperation. We strongly encourage applications from women, racialized people, Indigenous people, migrants, people with marginalized sexual or gender identities, and people living with disabilities. We invite candidates to share how they personally identify in their application if they wish to do so.
For more information about Inter Pares, please consult our website: www.interpares.ca.