Kids Cancer Care

The Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta is passionately dedicated to helping young people affected by cancer and their families survive and thrive in body, mind and spirit. With a vision of providing a cure for every child and care for every family, Kids Cancer Care strives to end childhood cancer, while easing the pain and suffering of the disease through three essential program areas: 1. Camp and Outreach; 2. Research and Hospital; and 3. Education Support and Scholarships.

At Kids Cancer Care, we consider it an honour and privilege to do the work we do. We get to help deserving children and families and we get to see our community at its finest — volunteering, donating, hosting fundraisers and helping others.

We love our work and we love the children and families we serve. We take our jobs seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We pride ourselves on having a fun, vibrant and sometimes quirky team that works, laughs, cries, eats, plays and celebrates together.

We value diversity and the different perspectives and cutting-edge thinking it brings. We like to surround ourselves with creative, kind, and passionate people and we welcome all qualified persons regardless of differences in physical ability, gender identity or sexual orientation, cultural or religious beliefs, or ethnic origins. We realize that what makes us unique makes us remarkable. We believe in the power of diversity and are dedicated to creating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment at all levels of the organization.

For more information on Kids Cancer Care and our work, please visit us at kidscancercare.ab.ca.

Career Opportunity

This is a permanent,



full-time position reporting to the Director of Philanthropy.

The Position

The Development Associate is devoted to all activities of the Revenue Development team. Specifically, responsibilities include grant writing, annual giving, direct appeals, donor stewardship, gift processing and other assigned duties.

The Development Associate is project driven, detail oriented and is highly skilled at taking initiative, multi-tasking, problem solving and actioning and following through in all the areas of coordination and implementation to the specific tasks outlined below.

Key Areas ofResponsibility

The Development Associate sets goals and targets for direct mail and newsletter campaigns, new donor engagement and retention, monthly donor program and grants. The position provides excellent stewardship of existing donors and grows new donors through creative communications and networking. As well, this role uses Raiser’s Edge competently for gift processing, tax receipting, recording and tracking donor engagement and working with the Information Systems and Database Manager to support their data needs.

Direct Response (Direct Mail, Newsletter Campaigns)

- Coordinate Kids Cancer Care’s direct response campaign using established practices and programs (Dataro) while exploring and recommending new technologies and practices to keep evolving with industry standards.




- Pursue program growth through internal acquisition lists (event and third-party donors, lapsing or lapsed donors, etc.) and external strategies where appropriate.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Communications to develop multi-channel social and email solicitation strategies to support each direct mail and newsletter campaign.
- Lead the segmentation strategy in partnership with the Database Manager and using Dataro where applicable.
- Coordinate meetings with Dataro to ensure it is used to its fullest capacity.
- Administer vendor relationships including contracts with mailing houses, printers and Canada Post.
- Set annual targets and analyze campaigns to determine program effectiveness and evolution.
- Ensure a focus on service clubs and professional associations.
- Identify, qualify, cultivate, solicitate and steward these groups to ensure they remain a strong base of philanthropic support for Kids Cancer Care.

Grant & Proposal Writing

- Maintain the grant master tracker based on grant application and reporting deadlines, Kids Cancer Care funding needs and other relevant considerations.
- Lead writing and application of grants within defined thresholds.
- Identify and qualify new grantors.

Stewardship

- In collaboration with the Donor Connections Manager, update and maintain Kids Cancer Care’s stewardship grid.
- Steward annual giving, monthly, new and grant donors to build relationships throughout the year.
- Coordinate recognition signage.

Gift Processing

- Work directly with Information Systems and Database Manager to ensure all Gift Processing tasks are completed including

📌 Development Associate – Annual Giving (Calgary)
🏢 Kids Cancer Care
📍 Calgary