Vice-President, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships

Kinvia, previously known as Canadian Feed the Children, envisions a world in which children, youth, and their communities thrive, realizing their full potential. Kinvia works in partnership with local NGO’s and communities in Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, Bolivia, and with Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Kinvia is here with communities who are building local, self-reliant, sustainable systems to provide food for their children, youth, and families across generations. It works in solidarity with communities to impact all areas of nourishment at all stages of their lives, including income generation, education, gender equality, racial justice, and climate impacts. 

It is within this context that Kinvia welcomes applications for the position of Vice President, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships, commencing Summer 2026, or soon thereafter.

Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships (“VP”) is accountable for advancing its long-term financial sustainability through an integrated, diversified, and partnership-driven revenue strategy aligned with Kinvia’s 10-year strategic directions. As a key member of Kinvia’s Senior Leadership Team, the VP advises and supports the President & CEO and the Board to advance Kinvia’s mission and financial sustainability. Mentoring, supporting, and collaborating with a dedicated team, the VP ensures donor and constituent relationships are built and stewarded, while providing strategic leadership to the team in executing key initiatives, ensuring vision, growth, and relationship-building are fully realized in practice. Key aspects of this role include revenue generation and diversification, resource mobilization, as well as integrated communications, storytelling, stewardship activities, and brand enablement to ensure that all fundraising communications and engagement strategies effectively support Kinvia’s brand and revenue generation and diversification objectives.

The ideal candidate’s career demonstrates progressive advancement into senior fundraising and leadership roles, including overseeing staff and ideally reporting to a board on fundraising matters. Candidates should have a breadth of experience across the areas in the portfolio, including storytelling, digital engagement and leveraging an organization’s brand to support donor engagement and revenue generation, and with relationship-based fundraising across multiple revenue streams including annual giving, mass market, major gifts and with individuals, foundations, and corporations. As a strategic, systems-thinking leader, candidates have strong financial and budgetary acumen, including managing budgets and with multi-year planning and forecasting, relevant charity regulations, and of CRA guidelines. As a senior executive, you also have experience leading through complexity, change and constraint while maintaining focus on long-term sustainability. Your engaging, honest, and transparent communications style is evident by how you cultivate and maintain strong and trusting relationships with donors and partners, and with your colleagues, direct reports, and Board members. Candidates must demonstrate strong alignment with Kinvia’s mission and values, including a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, decolonization, anti-racism, and anti-oppression, demonstrated cultural knowledge, humility, and sensitivity, and the ability to engage respectfully and collaboratively with diverse communities, including Indigenous partners in Canada and global partners across Kinvia’s programs.

To learn more about this impactful leadership opportunity with Kinvia, please submit a comprehensive resume along with a cover letter in confidence to Jane Griffith (jane@griffithgroup.ca) and/or Caroline (caroline@griffithgroup.ca). 

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Reason for posting: Existing Vacancy

Salary Range and Compensation Package: $150,000-185,000, commensurate with experience. The total compensation package includes a comprehensive health and dental benefits package, up to 5% matching RRSP contribution, 20 days paid vacation plus statutory holidays.

Location/Work Hours: While Kinvia is remote first work environment it requires the successful candidate to be based in Toronto or Ottawa and be available to work occasional evenings or weekends to accommodate fundraising events, donor meetings across time zones, and urgent deadlines. The role also requires candidates to be able and willing to travel domestically and internationally.

Candidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Kinvia is committed to inclusive, accessible and barrier-free recruitment and employment practices and to creating a workplace that reflects and supports the diversity of its community. It encourages and welcomes applications from qualified applicants including members of racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, women, persons with disabilities, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity.

Please advise Jane Griffith (jane@griffithgroup.ca) should you require any accommodation to participate in the recruitment and/or assessment processes.