Purpose Engagement Specialist (12-month temporary)

at  Coast Capital Savings

As a member-owned cooperative, we’re helping our members with their real goals and real challenges so they can live the real life they want. It’s what we’ve been doing for over 80 years, and it’s why today we stand almost 600,000 members strong. Plus, we invest 10% of our budgeted profits back into our community – almost $90 million since 2000 alone – because when our members do well, we believe our communities should do well too.
Purpose Engagement Specialist (12-month temporary)
May 31, 2024
Location(s): Surrey and Vancouver - Mainland
Job Type: 12-month temporary
myWork Options: In-person, Hybrid
Starting Salary Range: $32.46 to $38.92

• Oversees the day-to-day management of the volunteer program, including facilitating group volunteer efforts, responding to internal and external inquiries and preparing reports distributed to senior leaders.
• Delivers compelling and persuasive blogs, articles, newsletters and digital content to highlight engagement opportunities, profile partnerships, celebrate achievements and share success stories to be shared with both internal (employees) and external (members) audiences, for example, through an external blog on CCS.com.
• Facilitates events that support employee engagement, partner activation, the employee volunteer program and new member acquisition.
• Provides support to the Community Engagement/Investment Program, including prepping reporting communication for distribution to senior leadership, answering inquiries and supporting the year-end reconciliation process.
• Supports the Employee Resource Group fund, including managing the dispersion of funds, answering employee questions and facilitating accurate reporting.
• Acts as the first point of contact for the Social Purpose Office for general inquiries, sending a response or engaging the appropriate team member when necessary. This will require a depth of knowledge across several portfolios.
• Supports Purpose Partner activation, including proactively identifying opportunities to connect employees to the work of our partners, sharing learning internally and ensuring negotiated benefits are realized.
• Coordinates branch visits, preparing presentation material and pre- and post-communication with leaders.
• Supports measurement and reporting delivery, ensuring we receive adequate year-end reporting, connecting results to our Impact Measurement reporting, and seeking impact stories we can tell through annual reporting/disclosure.
• Maintains the Social Purpose Hub on MyCoast. This includes curating thought leadership articles, sharing information on Community Investment impact, and creating/maintaining a calendar of events.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in marketing, business administration, public relations, or related field and equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 4 years of proven community and media relations skills, sponsorship, and event coordination.
• Knowledge of corporate social responsibility, social purpose, social finance, and shared value creation.
• Understanding of the B Corp community.
• Strong computer skills, including MS Word, Office, and Excel, and extensive knowledge of all features of PowerPoint software.
• Solid understanding of budgeting and vendor/supplier management.
• Superb oral and written communication skills, including oral presentations to groups.
• Focused and concise written and verbal summaries and effective questioning and listening skills.
• Project management skills would be an asset.