Director, Programs – Community Development

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About the role

  • Director leading Digital Moment’s digital literacy, AI education, advocacy, and youth workforce programs. Building community partnerships, managing funded initiatives, and developing program teams across Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Digital Moment’s portfolio of programs and initiatives across planning, delivery, quality, and continuous improvement
  • Manage and support Program Managers, ensuring clarity of responsibility, execution, and accountability
  • Maintain agile and adaptable program delivery models
  • Represent existing programs, their research and models, and their impact to partners, funders, and external audiences
  • Refine established programs and shape new, innovative, and inclusive learning offerings in digital skills, AI literacy, advocacy, and youth workforce readiness
  • Oversee program performance, participant experience, implementation quality, and improvement recommendations
  • Lead community development and ecosystem engagement with school boards, educators, volunteers, industry experts, youth-serving organizations, and strategic partners
  • Develop scalable volunteer and expert engagement approaches
  • Oversee project management across funded initiatives, including timelines, deliverables, resource planning, budgets, and funder expectations
  • Oversee compliance, reporting, evaluation, and impact measurement
  • Lead transformation and development of the Programs and Project Management team, including new roles, skills-gap identification, and capacity building
  • Coach and develop Program Managers and Senior Project Managers
  • Establish communication, planning, accountability practices, tools, processes, and operating rhythms
  • Collaborate with the CEO and cross-functional leaders
  • Support governance, safeguarding, privacy, risk management, KPIs, and organizational performance practices
  • Align programs and initiatives with the organization’s funding strategy and support proposal development with the Director of Growth and External Affairs

Requirements

  • 8+ years leading programs in education, youth development, the community sector, or a related field
  • 3+ years managing teams
  • Experience overseeing a portfolio of funded programs, including budgets, timelines, deliverables, and funder reporting
  • Track record of building relationships with school boards, educators, community organizations, volunteers, and industry partners
  • Experience designing or scaling volunteer or expert engagement models
  • Data-informed approach to program quality, evaluation, and impact measurement
  • Experience leading teams through change, including restructuring roles and developing people
  • Familiarity with safeguarding, privacy, and risk practices, especially when working with youth
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage everyone from youth to funders
  • Knowledge of the Quebec and Canadian education landscape is nice to have
  • Experience in digital skills, AI literacy, or technology education is nice to have
  • Experience in a growing nonprofit or social enterprise is nice to have
  • Knowledge of French is nice to have

Benefits

  • 20 days of annual vacation, including 5 days in December during office closure
  • Group benefits including RRSP, parental top-up, medical and dental
  • Working from home
  • Flexible 35-hour work week
  • 10 annual wellness days
  • Continuous learning and development opportunities
  • Collaborative, innovative, and diverse team environment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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