Communications Officer, Adaptation

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About the role

  • Communications Officer advancing FCM’s Green Municipal Fund climate-adaptation initiative through bilingual campaigns, content, and analytics. Supporting Canadian municipalities building sustainable, resilient communities.

Responsibilities

  • Develops and implements communications and marketing plans and provides communications and marketing services in support of FCM’s Green Municipal Fund
  • Leads and contributes to communications and marketing products and activities, including digital promotion, social media content, website content, digital communications, videos, case studies, reports, presentation materials, digital images and other resources
  • Creates and/or edits promotional and social media copy in French and English
  • Coordinates communications-tool production from concept, design, writing, editing and translation through production, quality assurance and publication
  • Substantively edits and copy-edits materials, ensuring document structure, grammatical accuracy, editorial standards and adherence to the FCM style guide
  • Contributes to FCM-wide editorial and design standards
  • Gathers social-media and website analytics to support continuous improvement
  • Assesses communications vehicles and document-development processes and recommends and implements improvements
  • Participates in cross-functional teamwork as needed

Requirements

  • Post-secondary education in a communications or related field such as Public Relations, Journalism, Communications, Marketing or similar
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a professional communications or marketing role
  • Strong knowledge in communications project management, writing and editing
  • Strong knowledge of best practices and experience in developing digital communications products, writing for the web, blogs and social media
  • Experience with paid social media campaign management, search engine optimization, content strategy or content marketing best practices
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and assignments simultaneously and meet tight deadlines
  • Knowledge of financial services, climate change adaptation, infrastructure projects, municipal government environmentally sustainable development
  • Knowledge of collecting and analyzing digital analytics and campaign KPIs
  • Ability to use graphic design tools such as Canva
  • Ability to use video editing software such as Adobe Premiere Pro or After Effects
  • Strong political acumen and tact
  • Excellent planning and priority management skills
  • Strong adaptability and problem-solving skills
  • Strong customer service orientation
  • Excellent oral and written capacity in English and French is an asset
  • Required to live within 80kms of downtown Ottawa, unless otherwise specified
  • Authorized to work in Canada

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements that support productivity and collaboration
  • Summer schedule (July 1 to Labour Day): 7-hour workdays
  • Fridays off, aligned with team and operational needs
  • Ongoing commitment to employee development
  • Comprehensive range of employee benefits and services designed to support employee wellbeing and development
  • Occasional travel opportunities across Canada
  • Modern office space in Ottawa’s ByWard Market and downtown core
  • Accommodations available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$68,330 - CA$76,612 per year

Degree requirement

Associate's Degree

Location requirements

HybridOttawaCanada

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