Marketing and Communications Manager, Kitchener Ontario

Mennonite Central Committee Ontario; Kitchener; Hybrid; CAD 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Mennonite Central Committee Ontario seeks a Marketing and Communications Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team in fostering relationships and amplifying its mission of peacebuilding. This full-time role involves strategizing organizational storytelling, managing various communications outputs, and overseeing a team to maximize engagement across multiple platforms.

Benefits

Company paid benefits package

Supplemental medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

RRSP contributions matched

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in communications, public relations, or marketing.
• 2-3 years in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
• Ability to work non-standard hours.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of communications strategy.
• Monitor trends and apply best practices.
• Manage relationships with vendors and consultants.

Skills

Strategic storytelling

Digital communication

Project management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelors degree

Tools

Analytics tools

Digital communication platforms

Job description

Marketing and Communications Manager, Kitchener Ontario

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Job Synopsis

The Marketing & Communications Manager provides strategic leadership to a multi-disciplinary team in support of MCC Ontario's mission to amplify peacebuilding, strengthen local impact, and grow relationships and partnerships. This role ensures that all communication outputs, from donor reports and social media campaigns to thrift marketing and program storytelling, reflect MCC Ontario’s values and priorities. The Manager is responsible for crafting a unified communications strategy, shaping organizational storytelling, maintaining the integrity of MCC’s brand and brand standards, building MCC Ontario’s brand profile. This role leads a high-performing team that supports international and domestic fundraising, program awareness, and public engagement across the province, with direct supervision of 4 team members.

MCC Ontario is a hybrid workplace, with some days in office (50 Kent Ave, Kitchener Ontario) and some working from home.

MCC is a charitable organization that partners with churches and community organizations worldwide to walk with people who are disadvantaged. MCC supports activities that provide emergency assistance, reduce poverty, and promote healthy communities, sustainable living and alternatives to violence.As an internationally recognized NGO, MCC currently serves in more than 45 countries with over 475 partners, 1,000 staff and 40,000 volunteers.

Applicants must be legally able to work in Canada for the duration of their employment. Successful candidates will be required to provide a Police Background Check upon hire.

Salaried Employee -Full Time at 1 FTE

Qualifications

All MCC workers are expected to exhibit a commitment to a personal Christian faith and discipleship; active church engagement; and biblical nonviolent peacemaking. MCC is an equal opportunity employer, committed to employment equity. MCC values diversity and invites all qualified candidates to apply .

Required

• Proven experience in strategic storytelling, campaign development, and digital and print communications
• Strong written, oral, and visual communication skills
• Experience managing a diverse team of communications professionals
• Strong project management and planning skills
• Proficiency in analytics tools and digital communication platforms
• Willingness to work with sensitivity within a diverse cultural and theological milieu
• Bachelors degree + 5-7 years experience in communications, public relations, or marketing, and 2-3 in a leadership or supervisory capacity
• Ability to work non-standard hours required, including evenings and weekends, as necessary

Preferred

• Familiarity with Mennonite and Be in Christ constituency in Ontario
• Experience in a non-profit or mission-based organization
• Familiarity with MCC’s history, mission, and priorities

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the development and implementation of a unified organizational communications and marketing strategy, ensuring it implements the priorities of the MCCO strategic plan
• Monitor communications and marketing trends, identifying emerging opportunities, and applying best practices to maximize impact and engagement
• Ensure brand consistency and alignment across all messaging platforms
• Build organizational visibility and increase engagement through compelling storytelling and targeted campaigns
• Act as a key advisor to leadership on crisis communications, public messaging and marketing opportunities
• Give oversight to MCCO’s media relations strategy, ensuring intentional and timely engagement and ongoing relationship building
• Work alongside the Senior Leadership Team as required, providing strategic communications, marketing and engagement insights to senior leadership in a timely manner

Team Oversight & Management

• Lead, manage, mentor and motivate a highly performing marketing and communications team with knowledge, competency, operational processes, creativity and structural alignment to best meet the needs of MCC Ontario
• Build an inclusive, innovative, and high-performing team culture
• Ensure the effective project management of initiatives, including personnel, resources, time, and budget, with proper oversight of expenditures

Collaborative Leadership & Relationship Building

• Collaborate within the broader MCC system on Marketing and Communications planning and development
• Represent Ontario on the MCC Communications network and on other system-wide working groups as appropriate
• Provide leadership and manage relationships with marketing and communications vendors and consultants
• Ensure collaboration and coordination across MCCO departments to achieve marketing and communication goals
• Actively participate on the Cross Departmental Leadership team (CDL), attending quarterly meetings and collaborating with colleagues

Campaign & Storytelling Strategy

• Shape MCC Ontario’s public narrative across audiences and channels
• Oversee donor communications, newsletters, impact reports, annual reports
• Integrate stories of MCC’s work into all communication outputs

Measurement & Evaluation

• Develop and monitor performance metrics across campaigns and channels
• Use data to assess and improve reach, engagement, and impact
• Ensure efficient delivery and return on investment for communications activities

Other

• Ensure employees adhere to company policies and legal regulations
• Ensure staff on your team comply with the risk management policy and procedures and foster a culture where risks will be identified and escalated.
• Ensure the support and direction necessary for the effective implementation of MCCO’s health and safety program are provided and, health and safety policies, procedures and regulations are enforced.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned
• Participate in MCCO orientations, provincial meetings, Peace Conference and Staff Development Day
• Participate in a local faith community, being willing to use personal gifts within this community and model nonviolent peacemaking through respectful interaction with others
• Maintain a high level of integrity, reflecting Christian respect and Christ's unconditional love to those with whom you work, including colleagues, partner agencies, the homeless and marginalized
• Answer inquiries about MCC from constituency and general public; communicate MCC's values, articulating the importance of MCC's criteria for workers, all of whom serve as representatives of the Mennonite and Be in Christ churches which support MCC
• Model nonviolent peacemaking through respectful daily interactions with staff and the public.

Start Date

21 Jul, 2025

Salary Details

Base salary : $78,200. This role starts on day 1 with a company paid benefit package

Group benefits package is employer paid : supplemental medical / dental / vision, life insurance, AD&D, global medical assistance, EAP, and RRSP contributions matched - starts on day one.

LTD premiums are the responsibility of all permanent, salaried positions. These are the responsibility of the team member and are paid through salary deduction.

Location Description

• This role works out of the MCC Office at 50 Kent Ave, Kitchener Ontario.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

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