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About the role

  • Entertainment partnerships specialist growing World Vision Canada's child sponsorship and fundraising impact. Managing artists, events, campaigns, budgets, and supporter acquisition.

Responsibilities

  • Build and curate a portfolio of entertainment partnerships with artists, event promoters, managers, and agents.
  • Build strategic partner plans and supporter journeys to drive engagement, revenue, donor acquisition, and brand visibility.
  • Identify and test new partnership models and opportunities.
  • Provide end-to-end project management for events, activations, and initiatives, including scope, timelines, risk, budgets, deliverables, and execution.
  • Manage partnership and project administration, including budgets, invoices, purchase orders, payments, contracts, statements of work, and post-mortem reporting.
  • Communicate with event and tour staff to gather perspectives and performance updates, with light volunteer coordination where relevant.
  • Track performance and recommend data-informed optimizations.
  • Monitor industry trends and audience insights.
  • Manage relationships, educate partners on WVC's mission, coach appeals, and ensure shared goals are met.
  • Collaborate across internal departments to deliver integrated campaigns.
  • Ensure partner-facing materials and activations align with WVC policies, brand guidelines, and strategic frameworks.
  • Contribute to campaign ideation and development.
  • Support creation of marketing assets, scripts, content calendars, production rundowns, and event experiences.
  • Represent WVC in the entertainment industry through networking and partnership development.
  • Monitor contracts to ensure deliverables and obligations are met.
  • Provide onsite event support as needed.
  • Contribute to team processes and tools.
  • Operate within an agile project management framework.

Requirements

  • Post-secondary education in Business, Marketing, Communications or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in partnership development, sponsorship, or marketing strategy; preferably within an entertainment, cause-marketing, or Christian music/CCM industry environment.
  • Christian music/CCM industry experience and existing relationships are preferred; candidates from mainstream entertainment partnership, sponsorship, or fundraising backgrounds are also welcome to apply.
  • Demonstrated experience in relationship and partnership management, with a track record of collaboration, strategic negotiation, and mutual value creation.
  • Strong networking ability and confidence representing a brand externally to enhance visibility and engagement.
  • Experience in revenue-generating roles or responsibility for delivering measurable business outcomes (fundraising, lead generation, donor acquisition, etc.).
  • Experience managing complex projects or integrated campaigns with multiple stakeholders, vendors, and deliverables.
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture and connect day-to-day execution to long-term goals.
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments with shifting priorities and tight timelines.
  • Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal, with a high level of professionalism.
  • Comfortable working evenings/weekends as required by event schedules; some travel required.
  • Familiarity with Agile project management principles and/or experience in cross-functional sprint teams is an asset.

Benefits

  • Health Spending Account
  • Up to 6% matched pension contributions
  • Parental leave top-up
  • Generous paid vacation, sick days, wellness and personal days
  • Office closed extra days before long weekends (6x/year)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridMississaugaCanada

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