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Windmill Microlending empowers skilled immigrants and refugees to build careers in Canada while reducing poverty and labour shortages. We do this by offering affordable loans along with client success coaching, financial literacy training, and mentorship for newcomers who lack access to mainstream credit.
Since 2005, Windmill has provided over 15,000 loans to clients in healthcare, IT, financial services, law, engineering, and many other fields to triple their incomes as a result of returning to their trained fields. Windmill is a registered Canadian charity supported by donations and community bonds from the private sector and grants from the public sector.
At Windmill, you can make a meaningful impact on the lives of thousands of newcomers. Join a diverse, dynamic team at a leading Canadian not-for-profit where empowering our clients starts with creating an enjoyable workplace for our staff. Our commitment to a fulfilling environment is evident in our 85+% average employee engagement scores on our annual survey.
Windmill's national Partnerships Team is tasked with growing and strengthening our network of external partners across learning institutions, regulatory bodies/associations, corporations and other non-profits/charities. This individual’s primary focus will be on leading and cultivating a team to identify high-impact partnership opportunities, develop and advance mutually beneficial partnership arrangements, and foster strong working relationships with partners to grow our number of clients nationwide. They will help strengthen the Partnerships team’s shared ways of working and build repeatable approaches that can scale across regions.
The Associate Director, Partnerships, is a business development role focused on training, developing and managing the team to build our pipeline of partners across Canada, in the most efficient and consistent manner. The top candidate will be a tenacious relationship builder and strong operator, with demonstrated research skills identifying and prioritizing organizations that can deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients. Reporting to the National Director, Stakeholder Relations and Quebec, the role is a key strategic contributor to Windmill’s broader Partnerships department, as part of a dynamic and committed management team. It supports national execution, internal coordination, and briefings for leadership.
Key partners are organizations that refer eligible clients to Windmill and contribute to credible, repeatable pathways that help immigrants and newcomers re-establish or continue their careers in Canada
You will have an ambitious growth mindset and relish the prospect of playing a key role in the evolution of a dynamic, entrepreneurial, high-impact charity. You share our passion for helping skilled immigrants prosper, for reducing poverty in Canada, and for helping to create inclusive prosperity. You share our values of passion, empowerment, simplicity and results. As the ideal candidate, you are a talented and energetic relationship builder with strong operational discipline, experienced in sales and business development.
You can take direction and priorities and turn them into productive referral partnerships through strong relationship-building, judgment, and follow-through. You are an excellent manager who works collaboratively with your colleagues and direct reports, and acts as a role model and mentor through your professionalism, work ethic, collegiality and warmth. You are highly accountable and follow through consistently. You build trust across teams through reliability, integrity, and strong judgment in how you prioritize opportunities and represent the organization externally.
In team meetings, you are comfortable articulating and defending a point of view that your colleagues and supervisor do not share, and having your thinking challenged and stretched by them. You are a great listener and an excellent communicator in meetings and can support decisions unreservedly, whichever way they go. You relish the opportunity to work with a National Director who shares your enthusiasm and energy for partnership development and works closely with you to support a partnership-oriented approach.
Please submit, in confidence, your résumé, and cover letter. Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please include your salary expectations in your cover letter.
The preferred method of application is via email to hr@teamwindmill.org (reference: Associate Director, Partnerships). We thank all candidates in advance. However, we will only contact those selected for an interview.
This posting is for a current vacancy.
Windmill Microlending is an equal opportunity employer. Adhering to Canada’s Human Rights Act, Windmill grants equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without regard to race, creed, colour, gender identity or expression, disability, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, citizenship, ancestry, ethnic origin, age, or place of origin. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
As an active participant in the Federal Government’s 50-30 Challenge, we are committed to building a more diverse, inclusive, and vibrant economic future for Canadians by attaining gender parity and significant representation of underrepresented groups on our board and in senior management positions.
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