About Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada

Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada is the only national foundation exclusively dedicated to addressing urgent needs and improving outcomes of children and youth involved in the child welfare system. Guided by a bold five-year strategic plan and Impact Framework and working alongside roughly 100 child-and-youth serving organizations across the country, the Foundation is focused on driving meaningful, measurable change through outcomes-based partnerships, philanthropy, and systems-level influence.

To learn more about us, please visit our website.

To better understand our impact, please watch our ‘Investing in the Future, Today’video.

This posting is publicly available and open to all qualified applicants.

The Ideal Candidate:

You are a proactive, relationship-focused, results-driven business development professional who brings persistence, sound judgment and confidence when engaging senior decision-makers. You know how to build trust, understand what matters to partners, identify common ground, and create opportunities for them to make a long‑lasting impact.

You are collaborative, highly organized, and comfortable managing complex, strategic relationships with multiple stakeholders. Most importantly, you are inspired by the opportunity to connect corporate Canada with meaningful ways to improve outcomes for children and youth involved in the child welfare system.

If you bring significant business development experience, understand how strong partnerships can drive philanthropic impact, are results‑driven, and are excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you. We’re open to discussing flexible ways of working that could support success in the role.

The Opportunity:





For an experienced business development professional, this is an opportunity to bring what you do best to a mission that matters. You’ll have the space to build new relationships, help shape the growth of CAFC’s corporate partnerships, and work alongside senior leaders and Board members to create tangible impact for children and youth across Canada.

The Senior Manager, Business Development, leads corporate business development for the Foundation. This role is responsible for growing the number and scale of CAFC's major corporate partnerships by identifying high‑potential companies and sectors, opening doors, building relationships where none previously existed, and converting opportunities into meaningful, multi‑year partnerships. The Senior Manager also leads a portfolio of complex corporate accounts where senior corporate executives and Board members are often involved.

The role identifies opportunities, builds trusted relationships with senior decision-makers, and thoughtfully advances each opportunity from an initial conversation through relationship development, proposal and partnership commitment.

You are equally focused on turning those current relationships into significant, long‑term revenue and sustainable partnerships. This requires sound business judgment in conversations with senior executives, understand how to align corporate priorities with meaningful social impact,



and know how to create momentum and move opportunities forward. The Senior Manager also brings the polish and judgment to work alongside CAFC’s senior volunteers, and to keep complex, multi‑stakeholder relationships on track. Above all, the role connects corporate Canada with opportunities to create tangible impact for children and youth involved with the child welfare system.

Key Responsibilities:

New Business Development:

- Lead CAFC’s corporate business development, building and growing a pipeline of new major corporate partners, with a primary focus on opportunities of $50K–$100K+ and multi‑year partnerships.
- Lead proactive outreach to prospective corporate partners, including companies where CAFC has no existing relationship, to secure first meetings. Leverage Board, volunteer and existing donor networks to open doors and make introductions.
- Partner with the Prospect Development Manager to identify and prioritize target sectors, companies and decision‑makers, assess qualified prospects and independently sourced opportunities, and move the strongest opportunities into active cultivation.
- Develop strategies to move qualified opportunities from initial meeting through cultivation, proposal, solicitation and close, owning follow‑up and next steps to maintain momentum across the pipeline.
- Mobilize CAFC’s CEO, Board members and volunteers at key points in the solicitation process, preparing them with clear briefings, asks and follow‑up plans.
- Track and report leading pipeline indicators, including current qualified prospects, first meetings, qualified opportunities, proposals, solicitations, pipeline value and new revenue secured, fla

📌 Senior Manager, Business Development and Partnerships (Toronto)
🏢 Children's Aid Foundation of Canada
📍 Toronto