External Relations & Partnerships Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Establish and nurture trusted, long-lasting relationships with partner organizations, medical faculties, and other essential stakeholders.

• Act as the primary liaison for external partners, promoting collaboration and transparent communication.

• Conduct stakeholder meetings to comprehend partner priorities, challenges, and prospective opportunities.

• Represent CaRMS at external meetings, conferences, committees, and working groups.

• Enhance relationships through consistent engagement and proactive communication.

• Collect feedback from partners via discussions, meetings, and sector engagement.

• Identify recurring themes, emerging issues, and opportunities within the medical education field.

• Convert stakeholder insights into clear recommendations for internal teams.

• Create briefing materials and reports that aid in strategic planning and organizational decision-making.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Delivery, and Leadership to ensure partner perspectives are well understood and integrated into planning and decision-making.

• Assist product teams by offering contextual insights, validation, and partner impact analysis—without making product decisions.

• Serve as a trusted advisor by incorporating stakeholder and market perspectives into cross-functional discussions.

• Identify prospects for new partnerships or enhancements that align with product direction and organizational strategy.

• Monitor trends in Canadian medical education and residency matching.

• Provide insights and recommendations to leadership regarding partnership strategies, ecosystem positioning, and sector dynamics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, economics, public administration, communications, or a related field.

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in external relations, stakeholder engagement, partnership management, membership engagement, account management, client relationship management, or a similar area.

• Experience in a not-for-profit, association, healthcare, post-secondary, government, or other complex stakeholder-driven environments.

• Background in medical education, ideally within a faculty of medicine, medical school, residency program, or a related context of the CaRMS match process and medical education landscape.

• Experience in facilitating discussions, gathering stakeholder insights, and transforming feedback into actionable recommendations.

• Proficiency with digital collaboration tools (Microsoft 365, Asana, etc.).

• Bilingual (English/French).

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.

• Continuous quality improvement (CQI).

• Professional development opportunities.

• Comprehensive benefits program.

• Industry-leading defined contribution pension plan.