Executive Director

The Alberta Women’s Institutes (AWI) is looking for an outgoing, hardworking, community-minded individual to join our team as Executive Director. This person should be a member of AWI, or be familiar with AWI and in agreement with its aims and objectives.
We are looking for someone with excellent communication, interpersonal, office management, and computer skills who will take direction from the AWI Executive and Council. This person should have experience working with volunteers and boards, particularly non-profits, and be a team player. This individual must be willing to attend conventions, workshops, committee and other meetings as required, and take minutes as needed.
The successful candidate will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and have basic understanding of finances/bookkeeping. Skills in website development and management, as well as social media platforms, Google Meet, G-Suite and Zoom are an important part of the job. We will consider a strong candidate who has excellent abilities in some of these areas who would be willing to learn the other skills.

The successful Executive Director must be willing to supply an office space (some compensation may be available for this), as well as storage for AWI’s equipment and materials.
This is a permanent part-time position, currently averaging 10 hours/week, which could work into more hours by mutual agreement. Compensation $17.00/hour.