Job Description

Director, Community Fundraising (15-month Contract)

Position Details:

15-month contract position
35 hours per week
Hybrid work arrangement
Location: Anywhere in Canada
Application deadline: August 11, 2026

The impact you will have:

The Director, Community Fundraising provides strategic oversight and operational leadership for the logistics, planning and implementation of national community fundraising activities across Canada, ensuring a consistent, high-quality participant experience while aligning operational delivery with organizational priorities. Oversees event implementation, vendor and stakeholder coordination, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver impactful programs that engage communities, strengthen relationships, and drive fundraising growth nationwide.

Key Areas of Impact:

Leads the community fundraising strategy to maximize constituent engagement and meet community fundraising revenue targets.
Leads a multifaceted team of Community Fundraising staff focused on relationship building and constituent experience.
Key external contact to top fundraisers and peer to peer landscape to build relationships to support and inspire reaching the Community Fundraising goal.
Leads participant stewardship and recognition plans and works collaboratively across teams to align strategies and activities, ensuring a fulsome and integrated MS community member experience.
Supports budget management including forecasting, pipeline planning and fundraising governance.

Requirements

Our ideal candidate:

Has progressive experience in a relevant field, such as fundraising, philanthropy, or community engagement.
Has peer-to-peer fundraising expertise with a strong understanding of fundraising events, community fundraising and constituent engagement.
Has excellent event management experience, including planning, execution, stewardship, and recognition.
Has strong leadership and people management skills with proven ability to lead, coach, motivate, and guide a multifaceted team.
Has strategic and relationship-building abilities to grow revenue, strengthen community connections, and support top fundraisers.
Has excellent data literacy skills, with an ability to use data and insights to inform decisions, solve problems, and improve fundraising outcomes.
Has a commitment to continuous learning and adapting to changing needs and opportunities.

Compensation & Benefits

Starting salary within the range of $103,000 – $110,000
Competitive health and dental benefits package, spending accounts, and gender affirmation coverage
Investment in your professional growth and development
Generous paid time off including an extended office closure at the end of the year and half day Fridays before long weekends
Support work life balance through flexible schedules and hybrid work arrangements

About the Company

About MS Canada

We're inspired by the vision of a world free of multiple sclerosis (MS). MS is a neurological disease of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord) and Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world. People affected by MS are at the heart of our work and our mission is to connect and empower the MS community to create positive change. We connect the MS community to programs, information, research and to each other while they are on their MS journey. We collaborate with researchers, donors, partners, volunteers, people living with MS, caregivers, and health professionals to drive progress forward and make meaningful impact. Whether improving the lives of Canadians today or supporting groundbreaking research to end MS tomorrow, we work together as a community.

Our Strategy: Discover. Innovate. Act

We are guided on the journey to end MS through discoveries, innovation, and collective action. This strategy connects the MS community through our common goal of a world free of MS. Together, we work to advance treatment and care, enhance well-being, understand, and halt disease progression and ultimately prevent MS.

Our Community Impact

Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world, with an estimated 90,000 Canadians living with the disease. We are privileged to be a part of a determined group of change agents who are working tirelessly to create a world free of MS. Some 1500 Canadians affected by MS serve as leadership volunteers on division and chapter councils and committees and an estimated 13,500 volunteers work tirelessly delivering programs, fundraising events, public awareness campaigns and social action activities.

Through discoveries, innovation, and collective action, we will work together to alleviate the uncertainty that MS causes, help provide accessible options for disease management, and reach out to partners to eliminate physical and social barriers in our communities. Our strategy not only lays out the roadmap in our journey to create a world free of MS, but we hope it also provides inspiration for all in the MS community to connect and collaborate in order to advance treatment and care, enhance well-being, understand and halt disease progression, and prevent MS from happening.

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