Manager, Revenue Development
If you’re excited about building systems that empower others to lead and want to help shape Canada’s next generation of entrepreneurial, AI-ready talent for the future of work, we’d love to hear from you!
Venture for Canada is a national registered charity equipping talent across Canada with the entrepreneurial skills, mindset, and opportunities to succeed in a 21st-century economy increasingly shaped by rapid change and emerging technology. We believe that to be entrepreneurial is to act upon opportunities to create value for others. The resourcefulness and creativity of people across Canada are essential to addressing our country’s greatest challenges. Venture for Canada serves as a catalyst by empowering individuals to create a more prosperous, inclusive, and innovative society.
Since 2013, Venture for Canada has grown in meaningful ways, and we’re excited to expand our team with values-aligned individuals who can contribute to what we’re building. To learn more about our hiring process and workplace philosophy, visit our Careers page.
Role Overview
Venture for Canada is looking for a relationship-driven revenue development professional to grow and diversify our major gifts portfolio across corporate partnerships, foundations, and individual donors. This is a role for someone who thrives on building things from the ground up: you'll develop your own pipeline of prospective partners and donors, craft compelling funding propositions that showcase Venture for Canada 's programs and impact, and lead the full arc of a relationship from first outreach through proposal, ask, and stewardship. You'll bring both classic fundraising instincts and a business development mindset, moving comfortably between cultivating a major donor, pitching a corporate sponsor, and managing renewals with existing partners.
Day to day, you'll split your time between external relationship-building and internal coordination: researching prospects, preparing proposals and decks, planning partner activations, and briefing leadership ahead of donor meetings, all while working closely with Programs, Marketing, Community, and Finance to line up what's needed to deliver on commitments.
Success in this role means disciplined pipeline management as much as it means charisma in the room. You'll keep CRM records accurate, track progress against revenue targets, and provide forecasting that supports organizational planning, while also being the person who can make a confident, compelling case for support in the boardroom or across the table from a major donor. If you're entrepreneurial, organized, and energized by turning relationships into revenue, this role gives you real ownership over how that happens.
Key Role Responsibilities
Revenue Development
- Manage and grow a diversified portfolio of revenue-generating relationships across philanthropic, corporate, and major giving channels, with accountability for retention, renewal, and revenue growth
- Build and manage a pipeline of prospective partners and donors through research, networking, referrals, community engagement, and creative outreach
- Develop compelling funding propositions, partnership opportunities, and other revenue-generating offerings that leverage Venture for Canada ’s programs, community, events, impact, and brand
- Lead proposals, presentations, pitches, and partnership conversations with prospective funders, partners, and donors
- Maintain an active understanding of the corporate and philanthropic landscape and identify emerging opportunities relevant to Venture for Canada
Corporate & Philanthropic Partnerships
- Manage and grow relationships with a portfolio of existing corporate and philanthropic partners, ensuring timely renewals, strong stewardship, and delivery of contractual and funding commitments
- Lead the planning and execution of partner deliverables, including brand activations, employee engagement opportunities, content features, events, reporting, and other cus