Manitoba Network Manager

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Manitoba Network Manager is responsible for engaging with local members to continuously develop a regional strategy that advances the network’s goals, and then delivering that strategy across relevant programmatic areas including seeking and managing funds, supervising staff and contractors, and engaging with other partners or stakeholders including local and provincial governments.

OPPORTUNITY

The Manitoba Network Manager is an important member of the team who provides leadership not only to Network Weaving and Manitoba Learns staff, but also to the local Network as a whole. This role provides a chance to grow your leadership and to learn and network with a wide range of organizations. You’ll have the opportunity to review and revise our local strategic action plan, influencing the future of the Network. You’ll seek, propose, and secure new funds to support the plan. You’ll hone facilitation, management, and public policy advocacy skills while creating the conditions for a leading collaborative of community-based organizations and social economy enterprises to continue their impactful work in the region.

Reporting to CCEDNet’s Associate Director, the Manitoba Network Manager is responsible for:

• The ongoing development, tracking, and reporting of CCEDNet-Manitoba’s strategic action plan and sustainability planning.
• Membership relationship building and retention.
• Seeking and managing funds to support Network Weaving and Manitoba Learns programs.
• Recruitment and supervision of Network Weaving and Manitoba Learns staff and/or contractors.
• Program delivery of our Network Weaving program including member engagement, public policy development and advocacy, convening and resourcing coalitions, and public engagement.
• CCEDNet-Manitoba team meetings.
• Program delivery of our Manitoba Learns program including planning and delivering a range of year-round learning events such as topical and skill based workshops and the Gathering of Community Builders, our flagship annual conference.   

As you begin the role, you’ll dive straight into our fall programming calendar, and you’ll work with members on key strategic initiatives such as the development of Social Enterprise Manitoba and a Manitoba nonprofit network. This will provide an opportunity to get oriented to the programs, teams, funders and partners, and members. An initial focus will include seeking and applying for new funds. Heading into the winter, you’ll steward a collaborative process to review our local strategic action plan, updating it for the current moment. Along the way, you’ll learn deeply about CED and the social economy in Manitoba and engage with local governments, funders, and partners to advance member priorities. Connecting with the national network will enable broader knowledge and connections, helping you align the work with overall network priorities and bring in insights from across the country.

ABOUT YOU

You have a mix of education and/or experience with nonprofit or program management, facilitation and/or adult education, funder relationship management, team leadership, and public policy advocacy. You are easily able to work in the local Winnipeg office for most of the week and attend local meetings as needed. You have some existing knowledge and connections in the field. You don’t need to be bilingual in English and French, but it would be an asset. You’re comfortable with online work tools like Google Workspace and Trello for project management, etc.

You also have knowledge of, and more importantly, a desire to keep learning about community economic development, community based organizations, social enterprise, and related efforts. You are growing knowledge about collaboration and how networks enable collective action. 

You want to work for an organization that aligns with your personal values and commitment to gender equity, poverty reduction, reconciliation, anti-racism / anti-oppression, diversity, and inclusion. You are aware of your own lived experience of systemic barriers or privilege, and how that shapes your unique contribution to strategic social change.  

Ultimately, you are a facilitator, connector, and strategic, critical thinker. The thought of facilitating a dynamic community-based network for social and economic change is motivating, exciting, and exactly how you want to be spending your time. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT WE OFFER

• A flexible work schedule and supportive work environment including ability to work from home occasionally
• A competitive benefit package fully covered by CCEDNet that starts the day you do 
• Retirement savings contributions
• Paid time off that includes 3 weeks of vacation to start, an office closure from December 25 – January 1, Personal Time Off (PTO) days, and compassionate leave. 
• Professional development opportunities including a Learning and Growth Fund

TEAM & ENVIRONMENT

The CCEDNet Manitoba team includes 5-6 people and occasional contractors or project staff. Most of the team works at less than full-time, from Monday-Thursday. 

This position is based in the Social Enterprise Centre office, in Winnipeg’s Point Douglas neighbourhood. It is a position requiring a majority of in-person work, but allows for occasional remote work. 

We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates who are legally able to work in Canada and can accommodate a flexible working schedule. This position may require some evening, weekend, and/or overtime hours. Some domestic travel will also be required.

ABOUT THE CANADIAN CED NETWORK

CCEDNet is a national values-based, non-profit association committed to connecting people and ideas for action that builds local economies, strengthens communities, and benefits everyone. We have members throughout Canada, including organizations, networks, and individuals who are strengthening sustainable and equitable local economies. Members are active across many sectors such as community development, social enterprise, rural development, co-operative development, employment development, and housing. CCEDNet-Manitoba is the regional hub of members, programming, and activity for the national organization.

We are committed to the values of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Dignity, Self-Determination, Solidarity, and Local Control. Together, we are working towards sustainable and inclusive communities directing their own social, environmental, and economic futures through our Theory of Change. 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This is a 0.8 FTE, permanent position working 30 hours/week, with a start date as soon as possible. Most 0.8 FTE’s at CCEDNet work Monday through Thursday but flexible scheduling is available.

We support our employees by offering salaries that reflect regional variances in cost of living. Employment offers are made between the minimum and midpoint of our salary bands and are determined by knowledge, experience and internal equity. 

Our Winnipeg hiring wage range is $29.19/hr to $32.05/hr. 

APPLICATION PROCESS 

Please send your resume and cover letter to by August 25, 2025 with Manitoba Network Manager in the subject line. 

In your cover letter, please answer the following questions: 

• What knowledge and experience are you excited to bring to this role? This could include experiences of systemic barriers to strategic social change. 
• What are your skills and strengths you will apply to this position? 
• What are you most curious to learn in this position?

Our typical process includes shortlisting of candidates based on applications, one interview with a small team anticipated the first week of September, potential for a follow-up phone call, and reference checks.

CCEDNet provides accommodation during all parts of the hiring process, upon request, to applicants with stated needs. If contacted to proceed to the selection process, please advise us if you require any accommodation.

We appreciate all applications. After a notice that the application has been received, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

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