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GoodWork Environmental Jobs is hiring for a position at B!KE, a community bike shop in Peterborough, ON. The role involves overseeing a small team and engaging with community volunteers to provide educational opportunities in bike maintenance and repair. The job offers a salary of $55,000-$65,000, 3 weeks of paid vacation, and benefits. B!KE focuses on empowering marginalized citizens and promoting cycling as an accessible transportation option.
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Position Details Reporting to: B!KE’s Board of Directors Job Details: 37.5 hours per week; $55,000 - $65,000 annual salary; 3-weeks paid vacation; modest health, optical & dental benefits; terms may be negotiable Staffing Role: Overseeing a small organization with a few full-time and part-time staff members and a committed crew of community volunteers About B!KE


B!KE: The Peterborough Community Bike Shop is a community-based, provincially incorporated charity that provides educational opportunities and support to empower all citizens to ride bikes. Since 2006, we’ve been an important fixture in the Peterborough community, teaching bike maintenance, repair, and riding skills, and making cycling affordable and accessible for all. B!KE is guided by its charitable purposes, which are: To provide education and training in mechanical and technical skills, problem solving, and social engagement for people who are marginalized, living with a disability or on a low income, as well as the general public.


To relieve poverty by providing access to free and low-cost transportation options for individuals or families who are poor, of low income, or in need. To promote health and prevent injury by providing educational opportunities to children, youth, and the general public. Material includes road safety and how to use a bicycle as part of a healthy, active lifestyle.


To protect the environment for the benefit of the general public by reducing vehicle emissions, relieving congestion and reusing or recycling bicycles and bicycle parts. Most of our activities occur in our professionally equipped bicycle repair shop in downtown Peterborough. We also provide educational opportunities in schools, workplaces, and the greater community.


B!KE is best known for our program called Open Shop . Open Shop provides the public with tools and training to learn and practice bicycle maintenance and repair. Open Shop takes place in our bicycle repair workshop with training provided by staff and volunteer mechanics.


Each year Open Shop provides 3500+ people with the knowledge and tools to maintain and repair bicycles. B!KE serves many unique members of our community. Part of what is special about our organization is the diversity of clientele that can be found working together in the shop at any given time, including low-income people, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQ+, seniors, new Canadians, youth and families.


Additional Programs
Kids’ Bike Build: We work with social services and a team of volunteers to fix up bicycles to distribute to children. Youth and Adult Earn-A-Bike: These programs provide low-income people the opportunity to build their own bicycles free of charge.


Volunteer Build Night: A train-the-trainer program that teaches volunteers mechanical skills and how to provide instruction in bicycle maintenance and repair.


Bike Valet: Bike sitting services for community events.


Rack and Roll: Our contribution to GreenUp’s Shifting Gears active transportation challenge, supported by the City of Peterborough.


Winter Wheels: Providing studded tires and training to participants to encourage winter riding, supported by the City of Peterborough. And various community and volunteer cycling celebration events.


Responsibilities Leadership &


Program Development (30%) Leads the attainment of B!KE’s strategic goals, and maintains organizational alignment with the mission, vision and values Seeks organizational development, efficacy and efficiency through the strengthening of current partnerships, developing new partnerships, and responding to community needs and opportunities Supports staff to successfully complete their responsibilities in a manner that promotes their engagement and fulfilment, supports open communication and learning, and enables them to meaningfully collaborate with and support other staff, junior staff, and volunteers Plans, oversees, evaluates and reports on B!KE’s various programs according to best practices and funder and board requirements Develops policies (with the Board) and procedures that reduces liability and manages risk across the various responsibilities and activities of the organization Demonstrates leadership that is inclusive, decolonizing, and prioritizes opportunities for those persons not visible or supported widely in the community Works with partners, the community, and other stakeholders, to promote a strong cycling advocacy network, local culture, and support for cycling as a form of transportation and recreation Able to pinch-hit various staff roles, when necessary Ensures ongoing compliance with the laws, regulations and regulatory bodies that bound a charitable non‑profit organization in Ontario and Canada, including but not exclusive to Canada Revenue Agency’s Charities Directorate, the Employment Standards Act, the Ontario Human Rights Code, the Ontario Occ