What does joining the big Leucan family mean? ?
Have a meaningful daily life by committing to supporting children with cancer and their families and making a difference in their lives. Be part of a philanthropic association that has been well established in the hearts of Quebecers for over 45 years. Surround yourself with a team of passionate people who value kindness, openness, solidarity and excellence. Participate in enriching and diverse events. Your days will be filled with meetings with partners, businesses, volunteers and participants with big hearts.
1. Your role in the Leucan family:
You will mainly act as responsible for the logistics of the annual signature and third-party events assigned to you. You will actively participate in the development and solicitation of new collaborators in your territory.
Annual events and signing
- Organize and manage all aspects related to the organization and smooth running of events under your responsibility;
- Recruit participants and corporate teams for events under your responsibility;
- Recruit ambassadors, honorary presidents and spokespersons for events under your responsibility, in collaboration with the main project manager;
- Research, develop and solicit new collaborators for events (monetary sponsorships, sponsorships for goods and services, agreements with suppliers, etc.);
- Develop lists of potential collaborators and carry out cold calling type approaches;
- Actively participate in the search for ideas to optimize the events under your responsibility (put forward strategies to reduce expenses or increase revenues, etc.);
- Follow up and respect the budget for the various events;
- Ensure monitoring of event schedules;
- Identify material and equipment needs for these same events;
- Find and manage volunteers during events;
- In collaboration with colleagues, participate in the harmonization of already existing tools between regions, optimize them and propose new ones;
- In collaboration with the communications team, plan communications related to events;
- In conjunction with the communications team, establish a social media strategy for each regional event;
- Respect the standards of the Association and legal aspects during activities.
Third party event
- Support employees in organizing their events;
- Maximize the projects presented in order to make them as profitable as possible;
- Carry out follow-up meetings and proposals with event organizers to take the projects further;
- Approach employees so that they can set up new events;
- In collaboration with colleagues, maintain support documents for events;
- Transmit information relating to events to the organizers;
- Ensure the application of procedures to event organizers;
- Build loyalty among employees and participants;
- Any other related task.
2. What you know
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, communications, sales or appropriate discipline;
- 3 to 4 years of experience organizing large-scale events;
- Studies in philanthropic management (an asset);
- Great autonomy in managing events from A to Z;
- Experience in volunteer management (asset);
- Good ability to make cold calls;
- Excellent functional French and English (oral and written) in order to communicate with Leucan’s partners, sponsors, volunteers, participants and families;
- Mastery of the Office suite and Salesforce (asset);
- Essential: own a car to make occasional trips to the region;
- Available for evening and weekend activities.
3. What you bring
- Initiative and great autonomy;
- Priority management and organizational skills;
- Positive and caring attitude, reflecting Leucan’s values;
- Good communicator and marked aptitude in interpersonal relationships;
- Ability to work under pressure;
- Ability to work in a team;
- Versatility;
- Ability to manage several files simultaneously and meet deadlines.
4. What we offer you
- Work-life balance;
- Teleworking offered according to the policy in force;
- Possibility of condensing the working week (4.5 days);
- Summer schedule;
- Vacation and personal leave upon hiring;
- Additional holidays during the holidays;
- Assurance collective ;
- Employee Assistance Program;
- Health and wellness account;
- Simplified pension plan with employer contribution;
- Free parking.
At Leucan, we welcome everyone with kindness, valuing diversity and inclusion in all its forms. We foster a work environment that is respectful, inclusive and focused on the well-being of staff members, as we strongly believe that diversity is essential to our success. We also encourage work-life balance to support a healthy life balance.
