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Position: Specialist, Entertainment Partnerships
Reports to: Head, Entertainment Partnerships
Position Term: Full Time Permanent
Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Head, Entertainment Partnerships, the Specialist, Entertainment Partnerships is responsible for the successful planning, execution, and optimization of World Vision Canada’s portfolio of entertainment partnerships.
This role plays a key part in managing relationships with artists, tours, festivals, and entertainment industry partners, blending strategic planning, creative storytelling, and flawless execution to drive both supporter acquisition and revenue.
Working collaboratively across internal teams and with external stakeholders, the Specialist, Entertainment Partnership leads the development, execution, and optimization of campaign strategies, events, and activations.
From event logistics to stage-front storytelling, this role ensures our entertainment partnerships are aligned with World Vision’s mission and built for long-term, audience-driven impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead a portfolio of entertainment partnerships with a high level of ownership, building strong, trusted relationships with artists, festivals, tours, & entertainment industry partners).
- Build strategic partner plans and supporter journeys that drive engagement and achieve revenue, donor acquisition, and brand visibility objectives for World Vision Canada.
- Proactively identify and test new partnership models or opportunities that expand reach, optimize fundraising, and increase supporter value.
- Provide end-to-end project management for World Vision and partner events, activations and initiatives, defining scope, timelines, risk, budgets, deliverables, and execution.
- Manage partnership/project administration and operations, including building and tracking budgets, overseeing invoices, purchase orders & payments, creating and monitoring contracts & SoW’s, and completing post-mortem reporting.
- Coordinate staffing for events and tours, overseeing tour representatives, staff & volunteers and ensuring travel arrangements and logistics are managed effectively.
- Deliver data-informed planning, tracking performance and recommending optimizations to maximize impact and sustainability.
- Monitor industry trends and audience insights to identify opportunities for innovation and increased market presence.
- Maintain a high standard of excellence in relationship management, educating partners on WVC’s mission, coaching appeals, and ensuring shared goals are met.
- Collaborate across internal departments to align strategies and deliver cohesive, integrated campaigns.
- Ensure alignment with WVC policies, brand guidelines, and strategic frameworks in all partner-facing materials and activations.
- Contribute to ideation and campaign development with fresh, strategic thinking, connecting ideas back to partner and organizational goals.
- Support creation of marketing assets, scripts, content calendars, production rundowns, and event experiences that elevate impact and visibility.
- Represent WVC in the entertainment industry, actively networking and building new partnership opportunities.
- Monitor contracts to ensure all deliverables and obligations are met by all parties.
- Provide onsite support at events as needed, ensuring flawless execution and partner satisfaction.
- Contribute to the development of team processes and tools to improve efficiency, delivery, and cross-team collaboration.
- Operate within an agile project management framework to ensure focus, flexibility, and accountability in delivery.
- Post-secondary education in Business, Marketing, Communications or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in partnership development, sponsorship, or marketing strategy; preferably within an entertainment, or cause-marketing environment.
- Demonstrated experience in relationship and partnership management, with a track record of collaboration, strategic negotiation, and mutual value creation.
- Strong networking ability and confidence representing a brand externally to enhance visibility and engagement.
- Experience in revenue-generating roles or responsibility for delivering measurable business outcomes (fundraising, lead generation, donor acquisition, etc.).
- Experience managing complex projects or integrated campaigns with multiple stakeholders, vendors, and deliverables.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to see the big picture and connect day-to-day execution to long-term goals.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced, dynamic environments with shifting priorities and tight timelines.
- Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal, with a high level of professionalism.
- Familiarity with Agile project management principles and/or experience in cross-functional sprint teams is an asset.
- This position requires the ability to travel for business and to work occasional weekends and evenings, as required by event schedules.
Our competitive compensation & benefits include:
- Health Spending Account
- Up to 6% matched pension contributions
- Parental leave top-up
- Generous paid vacation, sick days, wellness and personal days
- Office closed extra days before long weekends (6x/year)
- World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada and GTA top employer awards.
- We are Canada’s largest development, relief, and advocacy non-profit organization.
- We embody an Agile mindset here.
- We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.
We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.
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Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.
Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.
World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.
World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.