Communications Manager

ubc; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of British Columbia's Okanagan School of Education seeks a communications leader to shape strategy and oversee operations that advance the school's communications goals.

You will develop, design and execute a full range of communications—writing, design, publishing, videography and editing—to promote the OSE’s research and programs at local, provincial, national and global levels.

Qualifications

• Develops comprehensive communications and marketing strategies.
• Creates, edits and promotes content across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements a department marketing plan.
• Coordinates content providers, editors, designers and external services.
• Promotes events and program offerings through digital and print media.

Skills

Communications strategy

Content creation

Project management

Marketing

Photography

Videography

Social media

Writing

Job description

Compensation Range

$7,158.42 - $10,292.25 CAD Monthly The Compensation Range is the span between the minimum and maximum base salary for a position. The midpoint of the range is approximately halfway between the minimum and the maximum and represents an employee that possesses full job knowledge, qualifications and experience for the position. In the normal course, employees will be hired, transferred or promoted between the minimum and midpoint of the salary range for a job.

Posting End Date: September 13, 2026. Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

Job End Date: October 11, 2027

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

JOB SUMMARY

This position is a key position within the Okanagan School of Education (OSE). This position provides strategic input and leadership, while developing, researching, overseeing and implementing plans and operations that advance the Okanagan School of Education's strategic communications goals.

This position is responsible for developing, designing and executing a full-range of communications to enhance the image and reputation of the OSE at the local, provincial, national and global level. This position provides writing, design, publishing, videography, photography and editing skills to promote the OSE's research and scholarship activities, and undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate programs. This position creates and develops communications best practices for the OSE and ensures that all communications activities and collateral materials comply with UBC brand standards.

This position is responsible for the promotion of all events on and off campus, using digital, print and social media mediums. They work closely with OSE faculty, staff and students to understand their events, create promotional plans, and create the content and materials required. This could involve working with external stakeholders and partners. The positions also attends events to provide photography and/or videography support and creates content to share across OSE channels including social media and website.

News and story development is a primary responsibility of this position, who works closely with OSE faculty and staff to identify opportunities that may be of public interest. This position creates, edits and promotes the content, which could take the form of media releases, written articles, Q&A, social media posts, videos, etc.

ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS

This position reports directly to the OSE Director, with administrative supervision from the Manager, Administration and Operations. This position works as part of the Okanagan School of Education team and interacts with faculty, staff, students, alumni and colleagues within the Faculty of Education on the Vancouver campus. In addition, this position works closely with University Relations, faculty communicators and other campus departments such as Enrolment Services, Alumni and Development.

WORK PERFORMED

Communications Strategy and Planning:

• Develops comprehensive communications and marketing strategy identifying key opportunities to improve the organization's existing communications activities.
• Works with OSE leadership to identify and clarify goals, design objectives and to determine project timelines and budgets.
• Develops and maintains a departmental marketing and communications plan and associated strategies for increasing enrolment of undergraduate, post- baccalaureate and graduate programs
• Creates, implements and evaluates a content strategy and portfolio that includes websites, social media, online ad campaigns and other online assets.
• Manages projects and coordinates workflow of content providers, editors, designers and external services.
• Makes independent decisions and recommendations in areas of prioritizing, planning, and organization of OSE communications and provides strategic recommendations to OSE leadership regarding opportunities to further our reach to prospective audiences.
• Creates, revises and maintains a variety of messaging such as articles, reports, videos, photos, brochures and/or manuals.
• Coordinates, maintains and develops marketing and promotional materials.
• Develops promotional strategies, projects and public events including researching other Universities for best practices
• Evaluates the effectiveness and impact of marketing and communications plans and recommends improvements

Recognition & Planning:

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