Reporting to the Director of Development, the Manager, Development is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Centre’s development portfolio, team capacity, and project delivery process. The Manager, Development leads a staff of development managers and drives excellence in ensuring that business opportunities are assessed consistently, projects are delivered on time and within scope and budget, and work remains aligned with strategic priorities. The Manager also strengthens internal systems, supports cross-functional coordination, and provides regular reporting on progress, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Key responsibilities:
- Manage the development portfolio and pipeline from intaking of new opportunities, qualifying, identifying scope, resources, and making a go/no go decision, to active projects, renewals, risks, and capacity.
- Work with the Director to create, implement, and deliver new programs and services, in alignment with the Centre’s mission and strategic priorities, determine resource requirements and tools.
- Oversee the preparation and submission of business proposals led by development managers, ensuring quality, alignment, and timely completion.
- Assist in the formulation of job descriptions, hiring, onboarding, training, and retention of members of the development team.
- Provide leadership, technical guidance, coaching, support, and project oversight to a team of development managers to fulfil project deliverables within budget and on time.
- Set quarterly goals with each Development Manager and track progress; hold regular check-ins, and addresses issues early.
- Lead regular portfolio meeting to assess team capacity, prioritize work, and unblock delivery barriers. Ensure workload is focused on priority outcomes, makes recommendations to staff on what to stop, delay, or simplify when capacity is tight.
- Grow and develop the development team ensuring the team understands and is committed to achieving a common objective. Provide support, coaching and corrective action where necessary. Ensures that all staff adhere to company policies and procedures.
- Oversee development-owned projects toward achievement of quantifiable deliverables, ensuring every project has a clear owner, roles, timeline, budget, and reporting schedule. Step in when projects go off track to reset scope, resourcing, timelines, and partner expectations.
- Build and maintain practical tools that make the team more consistent and efficient, including templates, checklists, playbooks, etc.
- Run simple debriefs after major milestones to capture lessons learned and improve how the development team works.
- Put basic structure around key partner stewardship: partner plans, reporting deadlines, renewal timelines. Monitor relationship risks and surface issues early.
- Work collaboratively with Communications team for proper messaging, promotion, launch, and sales collateral for all products and services. Ensure the integrity of the Centre’s brand in all communication materials.
- Clarify handoffs and responsibilities between Develop team and Programs / Communications / Operations teams. Reduce friction by making ownership, next steps, and timelines explicit across teams; make use of ClickUp project management tool.
- Provide regular reporting to the Director (weekly snapshot, monthly summary, and quarterly performance report. Escalate risks, resourcing issues, or decision points early.
Qualifications:
- University degree in public administration or business administration, or experience in related field. Relevant work experience could compensate for the degree requirements
- 5+ years of related management experience leading teams in project management, program operations, business development operations, or a related field
- Demonstrated success in people management, setting performance goals, coaching employees, and supporting accountability.
- Strong project and portfolio management skills; including planning, budgeting, risk management and progress reporting.
- Strong collaboration, coordination and stakeholder management skills across multiple teams.
- Proficient with project management systems and tools (ClickUp or comparable work management platform).
- Experience in non-profit, housing, government, or partnership-heavy environments is an asset.
- Understanding of the community housing sector, government investments and programs
- Understand procurement process, proposal development, and contractual agreements in depth and maintain a strategic perspective to optimize negotiation, development, execution, and monitoring.
- General understanding of HR process, knowledge about unions and how they work
- Understanding of and adherence to the social values and operational objectives of the Centre
- Bilingual in English and French is strongly preferred
Competencies:
- Team Leadership
- Relationship building
- Stakeholder management
- Interpersonal skills
- Impact and Influence
- Client service
- Prioritization
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving skills
- Rigorous in the achievement of objectives
- Resilient
- Social values
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Values and ethics
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
The Community Housing Transformation Centre is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including those from equity-seeking groups.
This is a fully remote position open to candidates across Canada.
We are committed to providing accommodation throughout the recruitment process in accordance with applicable human rights legislation. Please let us know if you require accommodation.
Candidates must be legally entitled to work in Canada. In accordance with Quebec’s Charter of the French Language (Bill 96), knowledge of a language other than French will only be required where necessary for the role.
To apply, please submit your résumé and cover letter to careers@centre.support by April 20, 2026, referencing the position title in the subject line.
Employment is conditional upon meeting role requirements and completing a background check, in accordance with applicable laws.
Location: Canada
Position Type: Full-Time, remote, with regular travel
Salary Range: $90,824
New position: Yes
About the Centre:
Inspired by innovation, the Community Housing Transformation Centre is national non-profit driving transformative change in the community housing sector. We’re a proactive organization, seizing opportunities to catalyze partnerships, ignite new ideas, and marshal resources to grow a thriving and sustainable sector across Canada. Guided by principles of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, equity, eco-responsibility, stakeholder recognition, partnerships, accountability and sustainability, we set our sights on unifying the sector to achieve a 20% housing market share by leveraging our collective strengths.
