About the role

  • Officer in Corporate Communications ensuring communications align with City priorities and plans. Providing strategic communications advice and managing emergency communications initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure communications efforts are aligned with the City’s priorities and plans
  • Provide strategic communications advice and support to programs, services, and initiatives
  • Deliver strategic communications by aligning and integrating communications initiatives across the corporation with a focus on graphic design
  • Leverage new and innovative information channels and technologies, e.g., social media and rich media (video)
  • Support Council and departments with legislative and policy communications
  • Manage the City’s emergency communications in support of the Office of Emergency Management
  • Assist in the development and implementation of comprehensive public education, awareness and corporate communications initiatives and events

Requirements

  • Completion of university degree in communications, journalism or public relations, or related field
  • Minimum of 1 year of experience in the field of communications, public relations, journalism, marketing and/or media relations, including recent experience in the field of rich media
  • Effective use of rich media for communications
  • Effective communication tactics and techniques using traditional and web-based channels
  • Trends in communications industry and approaches
  • Microsoft Office and related software such as Adobe InDesign suite, including After Effects
  • Familiarity working in a MAC environment
  • Photography and videography
  • Local and current events
  • Media process
  • Municipal government
  • Knowledge of applicable health and safety legislation, including the rights and duties of workers

Job title

Communications Officer

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

CA$75,075 - CA$91,345 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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