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Associate Director, Partnerships and Programs

Department: Social Innovation Generation:  SiG@Waterloo(ARTS) Effective Date: November, 1, 2009
Grade:

USG 11

35 hr/wk

Reports to: Chair, Social Innovation:  Dr. Frances Westley

General Accountability

Social Innovation Generation (SiG), designed as a national consortium, is dedicated to facilitating broad social change in Canada under the leadership of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation in Montreal, the University of Waterloo, PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship in Vancouver, and MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.The Associate Director of Partnerships and Programs for SiG@Waterloo plays an integral role as a professional partner to the McConnell Chair in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo, and within the national SiG consortium. The Associate Director is responsible for helping to establish strategic direction institutionally, regionally and nationally, and for providing leadership at Waterloo for human and financial management, partnership development and program creation and implementation, in order to successfully and creatively achieve established goals. Key objectives are related to design and delivery of curriculum programs aimed at strengthening the capacity for social innovation in Canada, and to develop new methodologies and structures through which to engage researchers and practitioners across the country to find and test innovative solutions to social problems.

Nature and Scope

The Social Innovation Generation unit at the University of Waterloo (SiG@Waterloo) is a dynamic environment characterized by emergence, rapid change, innovation, and high levels of multiple cross-sector/discipline stakeholder interactions. The Associate Director reports directly to the Chair in Social Innovation and acts with significant independence to support all of SiG@Waterloo’s program goals. A primary role of this position is in advancing understanding and practice of social innovation, by acting as a spokesperson and educator in this area through participation in multiple, diverse University of Waterloo, inter-institutional, local community, and national partnership committees for the purpose of supporting SiG program development. Additionally, the Associate Director oversees a team of staff persons, acting as their direct supervisor and their liaison with the Chair. As such, the Associate Director ensures a highly effective office environment and additionally, manages the unit budget, and acts as the chief administrative liaison with the University of Waterloo and with the external funder, the J.W.McConnell Family Foundation.

Statistical Data

Annual operating budget

690,000

Project program development budget

1,000,000

Number of full and part-time staff

4

Number of annual contract staff

4-5

Number of graduate student fellows

6

Number of national partnerships nodes

3

Number of fully equipped off campus offices overseen and managed

8

Specific Accountabilities

Strategic Planning

 

Program Development and Management

 

Financial Sustainability and Planning

 

Human Resources and Office Management

 

[This is not typically included in job descriptions unless the job is non-traditional or unique in its environmental requirements – i.e. in a hazardous lab etc. I think we can omit.]

Working Conditions