As the Procurement Coordinator, you play a vital role in the gifting success of your Local Chapter. By researching and securing local partnerships, you ensure that your team has the premium items needed to create beautiful, high-quality gifts for the women we serve. You are the scavenger hunter and the bridge-builder, turning community resources into messages of dignity and hope.

Your Impactful Responsibilities include:

● Strategic Outreach: Act as an ambassador, engaging local companies and businesses to secure essential product donations for chapters across the country.
● Relationship Management: Forge new partnerships and nurture existing ones to ensure a steady supply of premium items for our Shoebox gifts.
● Chapter Support: Work closely with Local Chapter Coordinators to identify warm leads for potential donors in the region.
● Meticulous Tracking: Maintain organized and secure records of outreach efforts and partnership details, ensuring accuracy and privacy in accordance with organization policies.
● Donor Stewardship: Ensure all partners feel valued and recognized by following the official donor stewardship framework and communicating tax receipting needs to Head Office.
● National Collaboration: Identify and communicate any larger partnership potentials that may benefit the Shoebox Project’s other Chapters with the Executive Director to help align with national needs.

As the School Outreach Coordinator, you are the link between local educational institutions and our mission to support women at risk of homelessness. By engaging students and faculty, you inspire young people to take action through gift drives, card writing, and awareness-raising, fostering a spirit of community and empathy in the next generation.

Your Impactful Responsibilities include:

● Educational Advocacy: Inform and encourage educators to utilize our school resources to enhance their experience. Participating in a Shoebox Project gift drive provides an opportunity for youth to consider the needs and challenges of those in their community, who are experiencing or at-risk-of homelessness.
● School Partnerships: Form and nurture relationships with local primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools and clubs to gain interest in chapter initiatives. Secure school participation through mini-Shoebox drives, item collections, and card-writing initiatives.
● Event Leadership and Coordination: Oversee school-led "drive days", facilitate class presentations, lead drive logistics to manage gift pickups, inspections to ensure gift quality meets our standards and inspections are completed successfully, and arrange delivery schedules from participating schools with your Chapter team.
● Active Engagement: Attend agreed upon chapter meetings during various times throughout the entire year; actively participate in communications with your Chapter Coordinator by providing timely updates of your outreach and community engagement through the google based tracking sheets provided.