Program Content Manager

Ducks; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 83,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3 weeks vacation

Job summary

Ducks Unlimited Canada is seeking a Program Content Manager to align organizational positioning with storytelling and strategic content planning, advancing partner and community engagement, support, and funding for our work.

Reporting to the Director of Brand & Communications, you will lead content strategy across Ducks Unlimited Canada’s regional and national programs to translate conservation work into clear, coordinated communications.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in communications, marketing, content strategy, or related field.
• Experience in managing people and financial resources (at least 2 years).
• Bachelor’s in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of a national content strategy and annual editorial calendar.
• Identify and coordinate high-value conservation and science stories across regions.
• Tailor messages to audience segments and maximize impact across channels.
• Ensure alignment with brand standards and organizational voice.
• Set team objectives, monitor progress, and provide leadership to editors and content staff.
• Support planning processes to reflect local and national needs.
• Oversee high-quality written, visual, and multimedia content and contractual deliverables.

Skills

Content strategy

Storytelling

Leadership

Team management

Project management

Budget management

Content planning

Strategic communications

Education

Bachelor’s in communications or related field

Tools

Content management systems

Job description

Position Details:New permanent, full-time position
Salary:$82,500 - $104,500, based on a 35-hour work week. Salary for this position will commensurate with each individual's education and/or experience as it relates to the position.
Location:Remote, within Canada
Closing Deadline:September 6, 2026 (11:59PM ET)

What You Will Do

Reporting to the Director of Brand & Communications, the Program Content Manager aligns organizational positioning and objectives with storytelling and strategic content planning to advance partner and community engagement, support, and funding for our work. This involves leading the development, approval, and delivery of content and communication plans across Ducks Unlimited Canada’s regional and national science and conservation programs. This role ensures that conservation, science, policy and programmatic work is translated into clear, compelling and coordinated communications that support organizational priorities, marketing and communications strategies, and contractual deliverables.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead the development of a national content strategy and annual editorial calendar aligned with organizational priorities, marketing objectives and business unit needs.
• Lead efforts to identify, prioritize, and coordinate high-value conservation and science stories across regions and business units.
• Strategically tailor messages to appeal to audience segments and maximize impact and engagement by leveraging the most compelling format, channel and timing
• Ensure alignment of content with brand standards, messaging frameworks and organizational voice.
• Establish team objectives for content development, delivery, and performance, and monitor progress against these metrics.
• Provide recommendations to leadership on strengthening storytelling, audience engagement, and communications effectiveness.
• Support ongoing alignment between regional communications activities and national priorities.
• Serve as a primary connection point between regional teams, business units and the national MARCOM team to support alignment and information flow and aligning communications requests with organizational capacity and priorities.
• Build and maintain relationships and consistent communication pathways with representatives across all regions and business units to understand communications needs, opportunities, and priorities.
• Coordinate content development across teams, ensuring clarity of roles, timelines, and deliverables.
• Participate in regional and national planning processes to ensure content strategy reflects both local and national needs
• Oversee the development of high-quality written, visual, and multimedia content that communicates conservation outcomes, science, and impact.
• Support delivery of contractual communications deliverables associated with funded projects and partnerships.
• Guide communications specialists and content staff in developing effective storytelling approaches across multiple platforms.Ensure consistency, quality, and timeliness of content produced across regions and business units.
• Provide leadership and direction to direct reports which include an editor and content specialists
• Set priorities, manage workload, and support professional development of team members.
• Foster a collaborative, high-performing team environment focused on quality, creativity, and accountability.
• Lead performance reviews, training, and capacity planning within the role function.
• Contribute to departmental and organizational strategic planning processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve content workflows, tools, and cross-organizational coordination.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in communications, marketing, content strategy, or a related field; with a minimum of 2 years of demonstrated experience in managing people and financial resource management.
• Bachelor’ in communications, marketing, public relations, journalism, or related discipline.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Knowledge and Assets

• Extensive knowledge of strategic communications, content development, and storytelling approaches across multiple platforms
• Bilingualism (French) is considered an asset as this role will interact with internal and external people across the country.
• Strong understanding of audience segmentation, digital communications, and integrated marketing strategies
• Experience working in multi-stakeholder environments, including collaboration across regions and business units
• Developed and demonstrated understanding of environmental science, policy and nonprofit function as they pertain to conservation in Canada, and an ability to effectively communicate these topics to a variety of audiences.
• Project management experience and ability to coordinate complex, multi-part initiatives
• Knowledge of content management systems
• Strong working knowledge of CPA writing style
• Familiarity with non-profit work is an asset

What We Offer

• 3 weeks’ vacation with paid personal and sick days

Ducks Unlimited Canada is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment. If you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please email us at [e-mail] . All requests for accommodation will be handled in a confidential manner

While DUC would like to thank all applicants, only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted.