Description:
This position provides professional communications, marketing, and event planning services for the City Manager and Administrative Leadership Team.
Duties & Responsibilities
Scope And Major Responsibilities
- Develops, manages, implements and evaluates communication, marketing, and event planning for the City Manager.
- Develops and manages related budgets.
- Consults with the City Manager to develop and implement communications and engagement strategies to achieve the vision of the City.
- Identifies emerging issues and develops and implements effective and timely communication and event planning strategies.
- Plans and directs special events, news conferences, and related programs for the general public, employees, media, other orders of government, and stakeholders.
- Prepares and coordinates approval on written materials including copy for speaking notes, media quotes, business communications, corporate reports, presentations, newsletters.
- Documents event feedback and reports on how this input was used for decisions making.
- Develops and oversees a communications and event calendar for the City Manager to ensure coordinated and timely execution of multiple activities.
- Coordinates event space, supplies, audio visual equipment, manages on-site production and event clean up.
- Participates in the coordination of issue and crisis communications, as required.
- Prepares copy and moderates messages for the corporate intranet related to the City Manager and Administrative Leadership Team.
- Assists with other Executive Assistant administrative support in the City Manager's Office as necessary.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Degree in communications, marketing, public relations, or journalism.
- Four to six years' related experience in a communications, marketing field, including experience in internal, public and strategic communications and event planning.
- Membership, or eligibility for membership, in the Canadian Public Relations Society or the International Association of Business Communicators, accreditation preferred.
- Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality while handling sensitive information.
- Ability to exercise sound judgement and decision-making under strict time constraints and competing priorities in complex and demanding circumstances.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships within the organization and community (government representatives, elected officials, public, media and civic staff).
- Knowledge of website and social media design and management.
- Skill in the use of a smart phone and computer using word-processing, websites, intranets and other social media programs and software.