Vice-President, Revenue & Strategic Partnerships

About Us

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.

About this opportunity

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 is accountable for the day-to-day operation of the Philanthropy Team and the organization’s annual revenue targets. The VP also 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, as well as collaborating across teams, 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.

Vision

A world in which children, youth and their communities thrive, realizing their full potential.

Mission

Kinvia accompanies children, youth, and their communities as they work to overcome systemic barriers to ensuring their rights to nutritious and culturally appropriate food, fostering wholistic well-being.

Kinvia’s Approach

Kinvia’s approach is grounded in a community led approach. Kinvia works alongside local partners and communities to support them to achieve self-determined, equitable and sustainable food systems. Our approach also recognizes the importance of working directly or indirectly with the economic, social, environmental and political systems that underpin and influence food systems.

Kinvia’s Values

Kinvia’s values are how it governs the organization, makes decisions and acts as it undertakes its work together. They also serve as the foundation of its culture, behaviors and core beliefs.

Accountability – Kinvia demonstrates its commitment to trust through responsible actions, a focus on meaningful impact, transparency, and reciprocal accountability.

Partnership – It nurtures collaborative relationships and engages communities in shaping decisions that affect their lives.

Inclusiveness – It diligently works to create safe spaces where diverse perspectives and experiences can inform and direct change.

Solidarity – It uplifts one another and accompany those affected by systems of oppression and marginalization.

Respect – Kinvia values the dignity of people and uphold human rights.

Humility – Kinvia is on a continuous journey of healing, growth and discovery, and are committed to creating spaces where they can listen to and learn from each other.

Impact Report

• To read Kinvia’s 2024-2025 Impact Report, please visit:
• https://kinvia.ca/who/impact-financials/

Where Kinvia Works

Kinvia works with local community-based partners in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Uganda and with 24 Indigenous partners in Canada. Our work is centred in supporting self-determined, equitable and sustainable food systems by working with communities, particularly women and youth on:

Food production, harvesting and processing through sustainable agricultural practices and the use of indigenous seeds

Livelihood and job creation

Financial inclusion

Social inclusion and equity in food systems, including gender transformative change in food systems

Tradition and culture in food systems

Nutrition Education

Community governance structures and leadership

Tackling the root causes of poverty and homelessness among Bolivian children and youth.

To learn more, please visit: https://kinvia.ca/where/

Responsibilities

Revenue Diversification & Growth, Strategic Partnerships & External Influence

Provide executive leadership for Kinvia’s integrated revenue diversification, growth, and strategic partnerships strategy, aligned to the organization’s 10-year strategic vision and annual operating priorities.

Lead the evolution from reliance on traditional fundraising channels toward a balanced, resilient revenue mix that includes major gifts, philanthropy, partnerships, institutional funding, and innovative revenue models.

Ensure clear revenue growth pathways, multi-year forecasting, and financial sustainability in collaboration with the senior leadership team.

Serve as organizational lead for monitoring external trends in philanthropy, development, and social impact financing to ensure Kinvia remains adaptive, competitive, and future-ready.

Champion an integrated resource mobilization model that aligns fundraising, strategic partnerships, communications, brand, and impact storytelling in service of revenue growth, influence, and long-term engagement.

Embed an equity-informed and community-centered approach to resource mobilization, evolving traditional fundraising models to prioritize dignity, reciprocity, and community agency, while addressing systemic power imbalances in how resources are generated and shared.

Philanthropy, Donor Stewardship, Strategic Partnerships & Resource Mobilization

Serve as the senior organizational steward of Kinvia’s long-standing donor and partner relationships, ensuring trust, reciprocity, and shared purpose remain central to all revenue-generating activities.

Provide strategic oversight and co-leadership to the Director, Philanthropy & Resource Mobilization in advancing major gifts, foundations, corporate partnerships, institutional funding, and other priority revenue streams.

Work in close collaboration with the President and CEO and personally cultivate and maintain select high-value relationships with donors, partners, and funders, acting as a senior representative and relationship-builder for Kinvia.

Ensure strong donor and partner stewardship, prospect development, and relationship management systems that prioritize retention, growth, and long-term commitment.

Work in close partnership with the VP, Programs & Partnerships to co-design funding and partnership strategies that are aligned with program priorities, country strategies, in-country funding opportunities, impact objectives, and community accountability.

Support and activate Board members, committees, and volunteer leaders to extend Kinvia’s relationship capital, networks, and revenue-generating capacity in ways that are strategic, values-aligned, and appropriate to governance roles

Integrated Fundraising, Communications & Brand Enablement

Provide executive oversight to the Director, Integrated Fundraising & Communications, ensuring that fundraising communications, brand, and engagement strategies effectively support revenue diversification objectives.

Ensure Kinvia’s brand and communications strengthen revenue, influence, and trust, while deepening brand equity, amplifying impact, and reflecting the values, voices, and leadership of the communities we work alongside.

Offer strategic counsel to the President & CEO and Board on rep