Title:  Senior Manager, Community Investments

Requisition ID: 256025 

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

Help advance Scotiabank’s Community Investment strategy including delivering on the bank’s $500MM Scotiabank commitment.   Working with the Director, Community Investments, the role ensures high-quality delivery of programs and partnerships that drive measurable social impact, while maintaining strong alignment with the Bank’s values and community commitments.  

Is this role right for you? In this role, you will be involved in:

• Serve as a core member of the Social Impact leadership team, contributing to the development, prioritization, and execution of key strategic initiatives that shape the direction of ScotiaRISE and the broader Community Investment portfolio. This includes translating enterprise priorities into actionable plans, identifying emerging opportunities, and ensuring the long-term evolution of the Bank’s social impact strategy is grounded in evidence, community insight, and business value.
• Manage a strategic portfolio of Community Investments - Lead the end‑to‑end management of a defined portfolio of community partnerships aligned to ScotiaRISE priorities and the Bank’s broader Social Impact strategy. This includes proactively sourcing, assessing, and recommending high‑potential partnership opportunities; conducting evidence‑based analysis and due diligence to ensure strong alignment with ScotiaRISE pillars; and designing multi‑year partnership approaches that deliver measurable social impact and tangible business value
• Champions a client‑ and community‑focused culture to deepen partnership relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems, and knowledge, driving both social impact and business value through effective collaboration.
• Lead the design and execution of high‑impact activation opportunities that bring ScotiaRISE partnerships to life across communities, employees, and business lines. Identify creative, scalable ways to deepen engagement—such as events, digital campaigns, storytelling moments, volunteer initiatives, and partnership integrations—that strengthen program outcomes and increase awareness of the Bank’s social impact commitments
• Serve as the primary strategic advisor for a community investment portfolio, presenting insights, partnership proposals, and performance outcomes to the Director and cross‑functional leaders to support enterprise decision‑making
• Oversee operational execution—including agreement development, Benevity workflows, budgeting, impact reporting, and partner stewardship—to ensure a consistent, high‑quality experience for external partners and internal stakeholder
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across the Bank to identify opportunities to strengthen, scale, and leverage community partnerships in support of broader business strategies and customer outcomes.
• Work cross‑functionally with Communications, Marketing, Regional teams, and external partners to design and execute integrated communications strategies that elevate the visibility and impact of ScotiaRISE and Community Investment partnerships
• Represents Scotiabank and/or prepares executives to represent the bank at events.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.
• Provides mentorship and coaching to a direct report to ensure they have a positive work experience at Scotiabank (if applicable
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Dimensions

• Number of direct reports – 1  
• Countries / regions  / business units supported -Global
  
  

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed? We’d love to work with you if you have the following:

• 7+ years’ experience in a partnership and relationship management related role or 7+ years’ of demonstrated project management experience
• Strong preference for candidates fluent in French.
• Strong technology skills, including proficiency with the Microsoft suite of products specifically Excel and PowerPoint
• Confident communicator with experience interacting with diverse stakeholders including Bank Executives
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple large, complex and highly visible projects
• Experience working on complex private/public partnerships and IT applications.
• Knowledge Project Management, Corporate Social responsibility and the philanthropic/the nonprofit landscape is considered an asset
• Experience working in a financial related institution and former experience working with or for not-for-profit organizations is considered an asset
• Experience within a large, complex, dynamic global organization is considered an asset
• Effective communication skills both written and verbal, presentation, organizational, and interpersonal skills with a strategic logical approach
• Indigenous Relations and contextual knowledge of Indigenous Peoples.
• Spanish (oral and written) considered an asset

Working Conditions

• Work in a standard office-based environment; non-standard hours are a common occurrence.  Limited travel domestically

Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our  Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.