Manager, National Program Events

About JA Canada

JA Canada is the national office of Junior Achievement in Canada and a member of JA Worldwide. Since 1955, we have partnered with education systems across the country to deliver hands‑on learning experiences in financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. Annually, JA in Canada delivers nearly 500,000 impactful learning experiences coast to coast to coast.

JA Canada continues to modernize its learning experiences through innovative technologies and flexible delivery models. Our experiential learning programs and events, such as Skilled Trades and Mental Well‑Being & Peer Advocacy Summits, Job Shadow Days and JA Finance Park, combine classroom learning with immersive, real‑world simulations that bring learning to life for students across Canada.

About the Role

The Manager, National Program Events is responsible for the oversight, coordination and activation of nationally sponsored program events to ensure a consistently high standard of program quality, operational excellence, and constituent experience.

This role provides leadership for the following events inspiring and preparing 10,000+ young people annually, including but not limited to:

• JA Canada Mobile Finance Park: a new pop‑up experiential program that over the course of 75+ annual events hosted at schools and community centers serving a total of 8,500 middle and high‑school students annually across multiple regions.
• Skilled Trades Summits: a series of up to 20 day‑long events that provide 75+ students with hands‑on experiences with the trades and mentorship from college instructors and trades professionals.
• Job Shadow Experiences with Industry Partners: a series of upto 20 day‑long events hosted by Industry Partners at their facilities where students learn about careers, engage in mentorship and career path sessions and participate in hands‑on workplace simulations.
• Mental Well‑Being & Peer Advocacy Summits: up to 10 full‑day regional summits engaging up to 150 students in mental health literacy, hands‑on experiences, and youth‑led action planning.

The Manager plays a critical role in developing events standards, agendas, presentations, and accompanying learning resources; managing the national event calendar and logistics; coordinating with subject matter experts and program partners; enabling the recruitment of volunteers; training and supporting network staff; quality assurance, reporting and content curation; strengthening the JA brand and ensuring implementation of events meet partner requirements, and delivers meaningful learning outcomes aligned with JA Canada’s mission.

Majority of events take place during the academic year (late September through mid June). Reporting, program development, training and planning during the summer.

The position reports to the VP, Programs & Charter Services, works in close coordination with the Partnerships Team, the Brand and Marketing Team, and with national, regional office and Charter teams.

Key Responsibilities Program Operations, Delivery & Facilitation

• Coordinate the national program events schedule with National office, regional offices, JA Charters.
• Support charter and local office staff with briefing, training, promotion and coordination of National JA Program Events as required.
• Liaise with both national and local photography and video teams to plan and coordinate onsite content capture.
• Independently manage personal travel logistics.
• In collaboration with regional offices and Charters, activate and deliver events, in particular JA Finance Park, ensuring all requirements are met, including pre‑learning, logistics, technology readiness, and onsite execution.
• Lead daily onsite operations for events serving up to 150 students per day, ensuring an engaging, well‑organized, and high‑energy experience.
• Represent JA Canada at the Program Events and support facilitation demonstrating strong stage presence and comfort with large audiences. Presentation delivery in addition to interactive group facilitation with students ranging from grade 6 through…