Business Development Manager
About the role
The Baycrest Foundation has an exciting opportunity for a
Business Development Manager Events Posting Number: 9710
Position Type: Temporary Full-time
Length: 12 months
Shift Type: Days, some weekends (subject to change)
Bi-Weekly Hours: 70 Hours
Union: Non-Union
Date Posted: March 12, 2026
Internal Closing Date: March 19, 2026
About Us The Baycrest Foundation inspires giving to shape the future of aging and brain health. It connects generosity with purpose by supporting research, care, and education that improve the lives of older adults and their families.
Building on more than a century of leadership in aging and brain health, the Foundation empowers donors to advance breakthroughs in the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia, earlier detection and improved diagnostics, new treatments and therapeutics, and innovative approaches to dementia care.
Rooted in community and inspired by possibility, the Baycrest Foundation helps donors make a lasting difference in how people live, age, and thrive.
Job Summary As the Business Development Manager, you will help deliver the Mattamy Homes Bike for Brain Health event, Ontario’s largest cycling fundraiser, and the MCOCI Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s, Canada’s largest on-ice hockey fundraiser.
You will be the heart and soul of both events, ensuring a remarkable experience for the participants, stewarding and driving forward business development opportunities, processing donations - supporting and guiding our participants as we ensure their success while we continue to deliver exceptional events. Does this excite you?
Although this is a 12-month contract position, there is the potential for the role to become permanent. Key Responsibilities Fundraising & Revenue Management:
- Supporting the CESO, execute the strategy on recruitment of participants and sponsors for the implementation and execution of tools and best practices, including but not limited to reports and analysis for fundraising and event recruitment campaigns.
- Effectively recruit, manage and steward new participant and sponsorship opportunities and outbound gratitude and welcome programs.
- Provide holistic department support to ensure efficient and effective practices that advance Baycrest’s revenue and recruitment goals.
Other:
- Collaborate with Marketing to support the Events team on outbound recruitment (of participants and sponsors) communications, and event website updates as required.
- Support the Events Team with picking, packing, and mailing Bike for Brain Health & Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s items to our supporters and participants as needed.
- Respond to ad-hoc requests as required.
Qualifications
- Completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree. Strong asset but not mandatory.
- Certificate in Fundraising Management or equivalent is an asset, but not mandatory
- Minimum of two (2) years of related experience; sales; fundraising; relationship management and partnership development.
- Sales experience in a health care environment is preferred, but not mandatory.
- Certified Fund-Raising Executive (‘CFRE’) certification is an asset.
- Outstanding verbal, written, listening and presentation communication skills with the ability to communicate with ease and comfort in highly professional corporate and foundation environments.
- Excellent relationship building, management, networking and stewardship skills
- Enthusiastic self-starter who is able to function well in the Baycrest Foundation’s collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Police Reference Check, including a Vulnerable Sector Search is required.
Compensation At Baycrest, we take pride in ensuring our compensation structure is internally equitable and compliant with pay equity legislation. We believe compensation should be transparent, equitable, and reflective of your experience and growth. Our salary ranges are structured to support progression, from learning the role to demonstrating full proficiency.
For this position, the salary range is $96,218 to $120,273. The target hiring range is $96,218 to $100,000 per year.
Your placement within the target hiring range will depend on your job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and relevant education and experience, as well as considerations such as market conditions and internal equity. The starting salary will be determined using these factors to ensure fairness and consistency across the organization.
About Baycrest
Headquartered on a 22-acre campus in Ontario and fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is the global leader in developing and providing innovations in aging and brain health.
Baycrest is unique in the world, combining a comprehensive system of care for aging patients, one of the world's top research institutes in cognitive neuroscience, dedicated centres focused on mitigating the impact of age-related illness and impairment, and unmatched global knowledge exchange and commercialization capacity.
An independent benchmarking study concluded that few institutions match the breadth and uniqueness of the integrated models of service delivery and the calibre of translational research at Baycrest.
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Business Development Manager
About the role
The Baycrest Foundation has an exciting opportunity for a
Business Development Manager Events Posting Number: 9710
Position Type: Temporary Full-time
Length: 12 months
Shift Type: Days, some weekends (subject to change)
Bi-Weekly Hours: 70 Hours
Union: Non-Union
Date Posted: March 12, 2026
Internal Closing Date: March 19, 2026
About Us The Baycrest Foundation inspires giving to shape the future of aging and brain health. It connects generosity with purpose by supporting research, care, and education that improve the lives of older adults and their families.
Building on more than a century of leadership in aging and brain health, the Foundation empowers donors to advance breakthroughs in the prevention of cognitive decline and dementia, earlier detection and improved diagnostics, new treatments and therapeutics, and innovative approaches to dementia care.
Rooted in community and inspired by possibility, the Baycrest Foundation helps donors make a lasting difference in how people live, age, and thrive.
Job Summary As the Business Development Manager, you will help deliver the Mattamy Homes Bike for Brain Health event, Ontario’s largest cycling fundraiser, and the MCOCI Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s, Canada’s largest on-ice hockey fundraiser.
You will be the heart and soul of both events, ensuring a remarkable experience for the participants, stewarding and driving forward business development opportunities, processing donations - supporting and guiding our participants as we ensure their success while we continue to deliver exceptional events. Does this excite you?
Although this is a 12-month contract position, there is the potential for the role to become permanent. Key Responsibilities Fundraising & Revenue Management:
- Supporting the CESO, execute the strategy on recruitment of participants and sponsors for the implementation and execution of tools and best practices, including but not limited to reports and analysis for fundraising and event recruitment campaigns.
- Effectively recruit, manage and steward new participant and sponsorship opportunities and outbound gratitude and welcome programs.
- Provide holistic department support to ensure efficient and effective practices that advance Baycrest’s revenue and recruitment goals.
Other:
- Collaborate with Marketing to support the Events team on outbound recruitment (of participants and sponsors) communications, and event website updates as required.
- Support the Events Team with picking, packing, and mailing Bike for Brain Health & Pro-Am for Alzheimer’s items to our supporters and participants as needed.
- Respond to ad-hoc requests as required.
Qualifications
- Completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree. Strong asset but not mandatory.
- Certificate in Fundraising Management or equivalent is an asset, but not mandatory
- Minimum of two (2) years of related experience; sales; fundraising; relationship management and partnership development.
- Sales experience in a health care environment is preferred, but not mandatory.
- Certified Fund-Raising Executive (‘CFRE’) certification is an asset.
- Outstanding verbal, written, listening and presentation communication skills with the ability to communicate with ease and comfort in highly professional corporate and foundation environments.
- Excellent relationship building, management, networking and stewardship skills
- Enthusiastic self-starter who is able to function well in the Baycrest Foundation’s collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Police Reference Check, including a Vulnerable Sector Search is required.
Compensation At Baycrest, we take pride in ensuring our compensation structure is internally equitable and compliant with pay equity legislation. We believe compensation should be transparent, equitable, and reflective of your experience and growth. Our salary ranges are structured to support progression, from learning the role to demonstrating full proficiency.
For this position, the salary range is $96,218 to $120,273. The target hiring range is $96,218 to $100,000 per year.
Your placement within the target hiring range will depend on your job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and relevant education and experience, as well as considerations such as market conditions and internal equity. The starting salary will be determined using these factors to ensure fairness and consistency across the organization.
About Baycrest
Headquartered on a 22-acre campus in Ontario and fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is the global leader in developing and providing innovations in aging and brain health.
Baycrest is unique in the world, combining a comprehensive system of care for aging patients, one of the world's top research institutes in cognitive neuroscience, dedicated centres focused on mitigating the impact of age-related illness and impairment, and unmatched global knowledge exchange and commercialization capacity.
An independent benchmarking study concluded that few institutions match the breadth and uniqueness of the integrated models of service delivery and the calibre of translational research at Baycrest.