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Significant Position
As an inaugural leadership mandate aligned with the Foundation’s evolving strategy, there is significant opportunity to shape priorities, develop frameworks and processes, strengthen organizational capacity, and influence how this function evolves over time.
Influential Opportunity
This is a highly influential opportunity where you will help shape how one of the region’s most established and trusted philanthropic organizations approaches community leadership, stakeholder engagement, and granting strategy.
Key Role
You will play a key role in strengthening the Foundation’s ability to act as a trusted convener within the charitable and philanthropic ecosystem.
Vice President of Community Impact @ Ottawa Community Foundation
Company: Ottawa Community Foundation
Position: Vice President, Community Impact
The Ottawa Community Foundation supports the needs of Ottawa through philanthropic giving and impact. Proudly serving the region since 1987, this non-profit organization works with donors, charitable organizations, and sector partners to craft their legacies and make Ottawa a better place for all. The role of the Foundation is to connect people who care with causes that matter, enabling generous citizens to enhance the quality of life across the National Capital Region. With a growing focus on driving long-term outcomes, OCF is increasingly stepping into a convening role, bringing together philanthropic, public-sector, and sector partners to help address some of Ottawa’s most complex and interconnected challenges.
With a strong emphasis on integrity, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement, OCF makes philanthropy accessible and impactful. This efficient and inclusive giving platform offers dependable asset management and governance with a strong track record of stewardship and investment across the charitable sector. As the region’s community foundation, the Foundation connects donors, charities, and community leaders to build a stronger, more vibrant future. By stewarding philanthropic resources and investing more than $25 million annually through grants and community initiatives, the Foundation empowers organizations, strengthens community capacity, and helps drive meaningful change across the National Capital Region.
OCF is entering an important phase of growth and evolution. As part of this evolution, the organization is creating a new senior leadership role that will help shape how the Foundation understands local needs, identifies priority areas, strengthens stakeholder relationships, and mobilizes philanthropic resources toward meaningful and measurable social change.
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Skills & Experience
Experience
With experience interpreting data, evaluating local needs, and translating research and stakeholder insight into practical priorities and action plans, you are comfortable helping organizations make more informed and practical decisions.
Background
With a background rooted in public policy, social sciences, public administration, community development, business, or another related field, you bring strategic perspective, sector awareness, and the ability to turn insight into practical and actionable strategies.
Relationship-oriented
You have experience building relationships across diverse groups, including charitable organizations, funders, governments, sector leaders, and other partners, and understand the importance of diplomacy, empathy, and thoughtful engagement in building momentum around shared goals.
Strategic
You are equally comfortable operating strategically and tactically, with the ability to connect high-level priorities with practical execution and translate information into clear insights, recommendations, and action.
Analytical
Navigating interconnected policy, funding, and societal issues has allowed you to balance relationship-building, prioritization, and analytical decision-making throughout your career.
Collaborative
You are highly collaborative and bring strong credibility with external stakeholders.
Summary of the Role
As a newly created leadership role, this position will play a central role in advancing the Foundation’s evolving strategy by helping the organization move toward a more proactive, data-informed, and results-oriented approach to sector leadership and philanthropic investment.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the Vice President, Community Impact will provide leadership for OCF’s granting, stakeholder engagement, and community intelligence functions. Working closely with internal leaders, donors, charitable organizations, governments, and sector partners, you will lead the Foundation’s efforts to better understand the interconnected social issues affecting Ottawa and identify where philanthropic resources can drive the greatest long-term improvements. This role will oversee the Foundation’s granting function while also building the organization’s capacity to assess local needs, interpret data and trends, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and help shape priorities across key issue areas.
You will lead the development of a stronger intelligence and reporting framework for the organization, including advancing reporting initiatives, identifying priority areas informed by data and stakeholder engagement, and helping the Foundation better understand where targeted funding and collaboration can create meaningful change. This role will also help strengthen the Foundation’s ability to convene organizations, funders, and public- sector partners around shared priorities, supporting collaborative approaches to advancing progress across the region.
In partnership with the philanthropy team, you will act as a key resource to support donor conversations and investment strategies by providing insights into emerging issues, sector trends, priority areas, and organizational effectiveness. You will also contribute to the development of the Foundation’s broader advocacy and sector leadership efforts by helping shape issue-based perspectives, stakeholder engagement approaches, and initiatives aligned with the organization’s mission and long-term objectives.
As a member of the senior leadership team, you will help ensure that the Foundation’s granting, engagement, and related initiatives are aligned with broader organizational priorities and growth objectives. You will work collaboratively across the organization to strengthen the Foundation’s visibility, effectiveness, and long-term role as a trusted convener and partner within the charitable and philanthropic sector.
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