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Sr. Director Government Relations and Planning/Hybrid Jobs in Old Toronto at Knewin
Title: Sr. Director Government Relations and Planning/Hybrid
Company: Knewin
Location: Old Toronto
Category: Government, Management
Position: Sr. Director Government Relations and Planning (Hybrid)
Location: Old Toronto
Title:Sr. Director, Government Relations and Planning
Department:Managing Director’s Office (MDO), WorldEducationServices in Canada
Location:Canada
Salary:$170K – $195K CAD
Description:
WorldEducationServices (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to helping immigrants, refugees, and international students achieve economic, social, and educationalinclusionin the United States and Canada. For nearly 50 years, WES has helped people learn, work, and thrive in new places and helped society recognize the value of people’seducationand experience.
The Opportunity:
WES is seeking an experienced leader to work as a Senior Director to plan and lead strategic initiatives in the Canadian Office to enhance government relations and influence public policy (incollaborationwith Senior Director Policy, and Research), support global expansion and provide strategic advice and support from a Canadian lens to the Global CEO Office, New Products branch and global operations (India) and social impact divisions.
This unique role requires aninnovativeand agile leader to collaborate closely with the Managing Director (MD) providing strategic analysis, establishing critical internal and external partnerships, and to drive WES’s priorities and mission in Canada, to advance global mobility and integration of highly skilled individuals into academic and professional settings.
The Senior Director will also work closely with functional teams at WES-Marketing and Communications, Technology and Finance and Administration, and the position will play a strong proxy function for the Managing Director. The position will have exposure to WES’s ExecutiveLeadershipand be a critical part of WES’s DivisionalLeadershipteam.
Work Culture and Environment:
WES is a remote first organization with team members distributed across the country. The Senior Director can work from the location of choice (from the WES office located downtown Toronto or from their home location). However, the position will require some travel across the country for meetings with stakeholders. Also, the position is expected to attend in-person meetings in Toronto and New York approximately every six weeks.
Expenses will be covered by WES.
Your Experience:
You will understand and be excited about the Vision and Mission of WES and the unique opportunities, challenges, and ways of working in a successful social enterprise that has both a corporate/business culture and a social impact culture. You have a strong track record of delivering against actions through partnership. You will be an effective influencer and adept at building strong, positive relationships.
You will possessstrategic leadershipskills to contribute to the development, design and implementation of Canadian and enterprise-wide initiatives. You will have naturalproblem solvingand stronganalytical skills, be able to ‘connect the dots’, and provide a Canadian perspective while considering the overall WES perspective. You will be extremely comfortable working in a highly matrixed environment and with rapidly changing external government policies that will leverageyour abilityto pivot and respond quickly, based on yourinnovativeentrepreneurialskills.
Duties included but not limited to:
External Relationships
Providing oversight of federal, provincial and municipal government relations activities; including contra…
