Administrative Manager
Pathways Program
Administration of the Pathways program is intricate, detailed, and multi-faceted. Currently managed by the leadership team, two highly skilled Program Coordinators are responsible for carrying out the many administrative tasks that support the participants, facilitators, leadership, and ultimately the functionality of the program. The Administrative Manager role is a new position, intended to support project management. This is a people leadership role focused on supporting, coordinating, and aligning a team of highly skilled team members through clear systems, shared priorities, and effective communication.
Who You Are
You are highly organized and detail-oriented, with strong project management skills and the ability to manage a complicated project system with many moving parts. You are adept at coordinating complex administrative processes, tracking decisions, managing information, and keeping tasks, timelines, and documentation aligned across multiple workstreams. You have a keen eye for errors, follow work through to completion, and see several steps ahead while keeping the bigger picture in view. You adapt to change well, setting and adjusting priorities for yourself and your team in a responsive way. You bring experience managing complex projects with multiple team members, using project management software.
You communicate clearly and directly, with strong written skills and solid financial acumen. You understand budgets and steward resources responsibly, even if you are not responsible for building them. You can translate direction from senior leadership into clear, practical instructions, and clearly communicate intent and goals so team members understand not just what they are working on but why it matters. You help create shared understanding and buy-in by ensuring people know how their work connects to the program’s larger purpose.
You are comfortable working with and taking direction from multiple senior leaders, know when to move forward independently, and you are not afraid to ask questions. You help ensure people have what they need to do their work well, support effective prioritization, and keep everyone aligned so there is clear and consistent direction across the team. You bring humility to your work and value learning, especially as you step into a people leadership role. You are attentive to team dynamics, committed to trust and psychological safety, and able to balance care for people with accountability to timelines and deliverables.
You bring an understanding of systems change and equity work in British Columbia, and you approach this work as an ongoing, reflective practice. You are motivated by building clear, functional systems that support effective, equitable programs and enable others to do their best work.
More details about skills, experiences and responsibilities available by clicking the opportunity link (https://manypathways.ca/join-our-team/).
20 hrs/wk: This position offers a flexible schedule, but the successful candidate must be available for a minimum of 4 business hours per day between Monday-Thursday.
Inclusion in the organization’s extended benefits plan.