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About This Role
The Strategic Partnerships & Campaign Communications team leads and executes the Foundation’s strategic communications in support of campaigns and major gift strategies. Our team is specifically responsible for developing fundraising products that align with our strategic plan, sourcing and approving relevant details, and ensuring accurate and timely management of these initiatives once funded. Through our efforts, we strive to maximize the impact of donor-funded healthcare fundraising and create positive outcomes for our community.
The Strategic Partnerships Manager translates complex scientific and medical language into an inspiring and easy-to-understand vision with well thought-out plans and clear results. Drawing on versatile writing skills, the Manager will work with the Major Gifts team and relevant health care teams to write compelling proposals and other customized written collateral. The incumbent is also responsible for actively monitoring donor-funded initiatives to ensure they remain aligned with donor intent. Other responsibilities include preparing and monitoring key related financial elements.
Key Responsibilities
- Develops clear and compelling offers/proposals which may be based on “on the shelf” cases or customized for a donor’s area of interest.
- Monitors donor funded initiatives within the Hospital(s) to ensure projects are managed and completed on time and on budget.
- Researches and writes accountability reports as directed by Donor Engagement and Stewardship
- Creates and updates (as required/annually) current needs/fundraising opportunities for each department, division, program, or project, working with researchers and clinicians to ensure accuracy.
- Ensures that each proposal matches appropriate Hospital needs with donor interests based on the donor information provided by the fundraiser(s).
- Verifies that the offer and accountability commitments can be delivered on prior to a proposal being submitted to a potential donor.
- Obtains approval from VCH partners and other stakeholders on collateral and researches and proposes alternatives where approval is not initially granted.
About This Role
We’re looking for a driven and creative Marketing Manager to take the lead on bold, high-impact campaigns that raise awareness, spark generosity, and inspire action. This role requires initiative, cross-functional coordination, and strong project management skills.
You’ll own the execution of a portfolio of the Foundation’s campaigns collaborating across content, creative, digital, and philanthropy teams to deliver integrated campaigns that resonate.
You’ll be joining MBE, our in-house creative and strategic engine, where we challenge convention, push creative boundaries, and bring bold ideas to life in service of our mission: to create healthier lives for everyone in BC.
As the leading charity investing in health care innovation in BC, our work directly impacts patients, health care teams, and communities across the province. If you thrive in fast-paced environments, love getting creative with execution, and want your work to matter — this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of integrated campaigns across channels
- Manage workback schedules, stakeholder coordination, and internal reviews
- Run the day-to-day — you’ll own your projects, keep the trains on time, and ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- Partner with content, design, philanthropy, and external vendors (for example PR)
- Act as the central campaign contact, ensuring alignment and flow between all moving parts and stakeholders
- Monitor campaign performance and create post-campaign summaries
- Recommend improvements based on results, insights, and evolving best practices
- Coordinate quotes, vendors, and approvals and production (e.g. print, merchandise, signage)
- Proactively manage any risk relating to project scheduling and delivery, determining and implementing remedial action to ensure possible delays do not adversely impact the Foundation’s reputation, project costs or other teams’ work
- Adapt policies / approaches / processes to unique circumstances as required, ensuring appropriate approval and communication with stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with multiple teams to make recommendations of opportunities for improving marketing and branding approaches and deliverables
- Track campaign spends and handle budget reconciliations
- Coordinate internal reviews and support final asset delivery
About This Role
The Reporting & Analytics Officer develops and implements activities to improve and sustain reporting and analytics capabilities, with a focus on using Salesforce reporting and analytics functionalities.
The officer is responsible for:
Designing and delivering reporting and analysis projects of small to medium scope that address business needs
Developing and implementing activities related to user enablement for reporting and analytics tools
Serving as a subject matter expert and advising Foundation staff on reporting and analytics tools used at the Foundation, including SF reports, Apsona and CRM Analytics
Key Responsibilities
- Using industry best practices for analysis and data visualization, carries out research and develops processes, standards and procedures related to reporting and analytics (e.g. governance processes to enable self-service analytics)
- Develops, maintains and promotes support resources, such as training materials, reference materials and templates
- Develops and implements processes and procedures to enable and promote self-service analytics
- Develops activities and structures to connect users of reporting and enable them to share experience
- Promotes the use of and application of best practices on analysis and data visualization
- Implements activities of moderate risk such as designing and delivering reporting and analysis
- projects.
- Works with business teams to understand their business requirements as it relates to reporting and analysis, analyzes the requirements and develops solutions, in the form of reporting and analysis projects, that address the specified business needs
About This Role
We’re looking for a copywriter who can turn strategy into story — someone who can distill complexity into clarity, craft compelling narratives, and create copy that connects.
In this role, you’ll help bring campaigns to life across formats: digital ads, website, email newsletters, donor pieces, out-of-home, print, radio, and more. You’ll partner closely with content, creative, and marketing leads to make sure our voice is consistent, our messages are clear and bold, and our impact is real.
You’ll be part of MBE — our in-house agency driving the Foundation’s brand. We believe in bold ideas, fast execution, and content that makes people feel something. Most importantly, you’ll be writing for good — because your words will help create healthier lives for everyone in BC.
Key Responsibilities
- Write copy for ads, email newsletters, print, social, scripts, speaking notes, donor materials, video scripts, web, and more
- Help shape campaign messaging and ensure tone-of-voice consistency
- Collaborate on creative concepts with design and marketing
- Ensure messaging is always aligned with the Foundation’s brand and strategic goals
- Translate complex medical or donor impact stories into emotionally resonant copy
- Support internal brand collateral, one-off comms, and campaign storytelling needs
- Contributes to development of Marketing & Brand Engagement departmental work plan and budget
- Review and refine copy to align with our bold, human, confident tone
- Refine and develop style guides, tone of voice, and other key brand materials
- Occasionally acts as a project lead, enhancing the work of the team or across the organization
About This Role
The Asian Strategy Coordinator will be responsible for supporting all Asian Strategy activities including the Youth Leadership Program, Independent, Partner and Signature Events, Annual, Leadership and Legacy Giving and other collaborative initiatives. This position is also responsible for supporting the overall Asian Strategy development to successfully grow the program portfolio, community outreach fundraising activities and volunteer services. This involves regular contact with donors, personal visits, and donor stewardship activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Assists Associate Director to build, develop and manage a diverse prospect pipeline
- Holds primary responsibility for the overall fundraising success of assigned fundraising events including logistics such as coordinating with event venues, catering, managing and tracking auctions, maintaining event RSVP’s and seating plans
- Supports and executes tailored strategies such as proposal and stewardship report preparation, drafting proposals and networking to grow contacts.
- Contributes to development of departmental work plan, managing revenue projections and improving processes, increasing efficiencies and/or reducing costs.
- Identifies marketing opportunities to increase brand awareness and visibility within the Chinese community
- Manages a portfolio of donors for cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.
- Works collaboratively with community volunteers on fundraising and cultivation events.
- Provides administrative support, including the preparation of a variety of letters, memos, reports and presentations; Issuing invoices; expense management and budget monitoring
- Media monitoring – maintains summary of Chinese media coverage
About This Role
The Senior Financial & Investment Analyst position reports directly to the Vice President, Finance in the day-to-day monitoring, reporting and analysis of external investment asset managers. This is a newly created role as the Foundation’s endowed and non-endowed investment portfolios have grown to a size that needs a resource to help with the management, reporting and to assist the Investment Committee fulfill its governance responsibilities. The Senior Financial & Investment Analyst will also work closely with the Finance and Operations team on a variety of investment and finance related projects.
Additionally, this role will participate in one of Vancouver’s most transformative real estate projects and work with prominent industry players, from regional and national development firms to institutional asset managers to public sector entities and prominent entrepreneurs.
Key Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with our third-party investment consultant and provide portfolio monitoring and recommend any changes to asset mix or investment managers.
- Lead strategic portfolio rebalancing in accordance with the Foundation’s Statement of Investment Policy.
- Oversee and report on the performance of the endowed and the non-endowed investment portfolios.
- Conduct regular cash flow modelling by assessing liquidity needs for funding obligations.
- Collaborate with accounting team members to ensure accurate accounting, valuation and reconciliation of investment transactions.
- Financial modelling, including discounted cash flow analysis and land residual analysis of income-producing and development properties. Development of multiple pro-forma scenarios.
- Research of real estate market trends and comparable transaction data, with preparation of quantitative datasets, forecasts, visuals, and presentation materials.
- Assisting the Foundation leadership with transaction structuring – debt vs equity, and providing thoughtful, empirically driven considerations of transaction risks and opportunities.
- In-depth macroeconomic research, to be used within financial analyses and economic summaries and forecasts to be shared with the Foundation’s Board and committees.
- Serve on or act as a resource to the Investment Committee and working groups as required.
- Maintaining awareness of local, national, and global economic and geopolitical trends, with a focus on how such trends impact the overall capital markets and the Canadian commercial real estate sector.
About This Role
The Associate Director, Donor Engagement & Stewardship plays a critical leadership role in advancing the Foundation’s donor relations strategy. This position is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and execution of the team’s annual work plan, including the supervision and development of staff.
The Associate Director independently leads and manages the planning and delivery of donor engagement initiatives, recognition programs, and impact reporting. Acting as a strategic partner, the Associate Director provides thoughtful guidance and recommendations to the enhance the team’s portfolio of activities and proactively identifies opportunities and risks related to donor stewardship. The role also contributes to the continuous improvement of cultivation, stewardship, and recognition practices, driving innovation and operational excellence across donor engagement activities.
Key Responsibilities
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Provides expert oversight to key functional database and digital requirements that support donor relations and organizational activities. Includes areas of:
- CRM (donor database): Event Management, Donor recognition and other donor preferences
- Online Communications: Emails and donor communications
- Virtual meeting/event platforms: Virtual Webcasts and meetings
- Portions of the Foundation’s website: Donor Listings or reporting
- Brainstorm thoughtful and strategic opportunities to cultivate and engage new donors as well as steward current donors to meet and surpass expectations.
- Ensures streamlined processes to effectively deliver stewardship activities.
- Anticipates and/or proactively manages donor issues and ensures mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Identify potential risks as it relates to donor recognition and reputational risk for Vancouver Coastal Health and the Foundation.
- Provides direction and oversight to ensure donor impact is conveyed in a timely, consistent and effective manner.
- Collaborates with the Director, Donor Engagement & Stewardship in the planning and execution of donor relations strategies that support priority initiatives, campaigns, and overall fundraising goals.
- Reviews gift agreements through to fulfillment, escalating approvals as required and ensuring appropriate inputs from other departments.
- Provides direction and inputs in collaboration with fundraisers to develop opportunities to advance cultivation, solicitation and relationship-building strategies.
- Recommends recognition and giving opportunities and oversees the maintenance and tracking of all recognition inventories, ensuring alignment across the organization.
- Coordinates the accurate production and execution of donor renderings and signage.
- Ensures donors are recognized for their giving and provided with creative, impactful, meaningful stewardship according to Foundation standards.
- Accountable for all processes and procedures related to the planning, execution, and evaluation of approximately 20 donor cultivation and recognition events annually.
- Analyzes donor engagement and stewardship data to identify trends, measure program effectiveness, and inform decision-making for continuous improvement.
BC’s Top Employers 2025
VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation is thrilled to be named as one of BC’s Top Employers for 2025! We were selected in part due to our extended benefits plan, progressive time-off policies, and encouragement for employees to pursue ongoing education.
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Find answers to common questions about joining our team.
If you are looking for a career where you truly connect with the organization’s purpose, your hopes and dreams may be a perfect match with building a career with VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation. The work we do impacts the province in which we work, and makes a real difference both saving and improving lives. People who thrive at the Foundation are engaged with and inspired by the impact we have in BC healthcare.
Our workplace culture, the ‘way we do things here’, is informed by our values. The Foundation’s core values are
Initiative & Innovation | Integrity and Stewardship | Teamwork and Engagement
These are more than just words. These values create a culture where cross-functional team engagement and accountability is the norm, where honesty and transparency are key, where people are encouraged to learn and grow, and where we celebrate the learning along the journey as much as getting to the goal.
Our approach to the question of whether work is ‘remote or in office’ is informed by a desire to have flexibility, accountability and real-human relationship development. As we continue to learn together, and discover the most engaging and empowering ways of working, we have embraced a ‘hybrid’ model. Team members are able to work in office full time if that works best for them, or up to 50% of their time at home.
Several elements contribute to the flexibility we provide our employees. After all, we each have unique lives and preferences.
- Flexible start and finish times around our core hours of 9:30 am to 3:30 pm (PST) Monday to Friday. We work a 37.5 hour work week and trust you to figure out how to make that happen.
- Compressed working option in the summer. If you want, you can compress ten days of work into nine and then take the final Friday off. People opting to take this ‘nine-day fortnight’ end up with ten long weekends over the summer. Just think about the camping trips!
- Five personal leave days, in addition to the standard 20 days of vacation each year.
- Three additional foundation days during the year.
- A remote work policy that allows work from anywhere for up to 10 days per calendar year.
On July 27th, 2024, Dr Henry declared an end to the public health emergency related to COVID, and rescinded related orders, including rescinding the order that required COVID-19 vaccination of staff working in health authorities. Employees of the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation no longer require COVID vaccination as a condition of employment.
We have a proven history of promotion from within as well as the opportunity to grow in role. We invest in the learning and development of our people, and support career growth at every level of the Foundation. As we continue to innovate and add even more value, new roles will continue to be added to enable us to positively impact health care.
We offer the opportunity to learn and grow outside of your ‘job description’, too. Employees are encouraged to participate in our various staff experience committees. Our Culture Cabinet is a team of passionate individuals committed to leading and inspiring a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Our Social Committee is an enthusiastic team of folks who create fun and creative staff activities that bring us together in playful and engaging ways. Our Health and Safety Committee is focused on ensuring all Foundation staff know that their safety is paramount, and that we are committed to continuous improvement.
Vacation
All employees receive 4 weeks (20 days) of vacation each year, increasing a day per year after 5 years, up to 35 days. Between vacation, Foundation Days, and the 11 BC stat holidays, Foundation employees enjoy 34 paid days off each year.
Other PTO (Paid Time Off)
The Foundation also has three ‘Foundation Days’ (Easter Monday, Boxing Day, and an additional day in late December); five Personal Leave days (that can be used for celebrations or observances that are significant in your life), and a ‘9 day fortnight’ program for the summer, where employees can choose to work a few extra minutes each day, and take every second Friday off. This equates to 10 long weekends over the summer.
Additionally, all staff are covered by a paid sick leave program which accrues at approximately 1.5 days per month, to a maximum of 26 weeks of sick leave.
Health Benefits
All the premiums for our Foundation health benefits are 100% employer-paid, for you and your spouse/partner and dependents. All full-time staff with a contract longer than 6 months are entitled to dental and extended health benefits, life insurance and dependent life, long term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and an employee and family assistance program for counselling support.
Municipal Pension Plan
All staff are enrolled in the Municipal Pension Plan – a defined benefit plan – to which the Foundation contributes 9.56 %, starting their contributions after 3 months in role (or 12 months for temporary employees).
Professional Development
At the Foundation, we support your unique career development journey. Throughout your time at the Foundation, we have regular career and development check-ins, where you and your manager mutually determine what types of job experience and challenges, social learning and formal learning will support you going from ‘where you are’ to ‘where you want to be’. With your manager’s approval, we support up to $1000 per year towards formal learning courses. Additionally, all employees have access to our internal calendar of learning, Vancouver Coastal Health’s learning resources, and have a Foundation-paid subscription to LinkedIn Learning.
Employee Perks
All employees have subsidized access to the VGH fitness facilities, parking, and cycling centre. There are various other perks offered through VCH, including subsidized transit passes, and discounts at a range of local retailers and service providers.
Through every part of the Foundation, we are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace. We have a highly engaged cross-functional team that develops and continuously monitors policies, practices and experiences to support our journey of creating a workplace that continuously strives to improve. Guided by the input of our staff and best practices in the Global Benchmark for DEIB, our Culture Cabinet created (and received executive endorsement for) the Foundation’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Statement:
We’re on a journey
At the Foundation, we know that “Harnessing the power of philanthropy to significantly improve specialized health care and research for everyone in British Columbia” requires a passionate, engaged, and diverse team that represents the communities we serve. Our journey of learning and acting on that learning will support our team members in uniquely contributing to our mission, and to feel that they truly belong.
Our hiring process varies a bit depending on the role, but you can expect to have your application considered by our human resources team. We may approach you for other roles too! If shortlisted, you will be invited to interview. We always invite shortlisted candidates in for a behavioural interview with a panel that includes the hiring manager. Sometimes we have a second round of interviews, and depending on the role, we may ask you to take a skills test or give a short presentation. All going well, we’ll take up your references, and then get in touch to offer you the role!
We don’t currently allow pets in our offices, but we hope that our hybrid work policy allows you to have your beloved four-legged friend with you on your work-from-home days. If they pop up on Zoom, please introduce them!
Please be sure to apply for any specific role you are interested in, but if you don’t see that perfect role, and still think you’d make a great addition to our team, let us know. We may have something come up in future that we think you’d be great for. Forward your resume to careers@vghfoundation.ca and we will be sure to get back to you!
Who we are
Advancing Health Care Through Philanthropy
At VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, we are dedicated to shaping the future of health care in BC through the power of philanthropy. Our mission is to enable better patient care and outcomes by partnering with donors and health care providers.
Join us in making a difference. Discover more about our mission, vision, and the values that drive us.