Director, Communications - North York, Canada - Seneca Polytechnic

Seneca Polytechnic

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North York, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Join the Renewed Seneca, The Next Seneca
:

Guided by _The Next - A Strategic Plan for Seneca Polytechnic_, we offer a working environment that is innovative, flexible and encourages risk-taking.

Joining Seneca Polytechnic brings opportunities for professional development and career growth. We focus on health and wellbeing in all its forms to provide a great employee experience.

Job Summary:

Are you an expert and well-rounded communicator with a proven track record leading motivated, high performing teams? If this sounds like you, we have an exciting opportunity you might be perfect for.

Seneca Polytechnic is looking for a Director, Communications to play an important leadership role on a dynamic communications team.

The Director, Communications plays a pivotal role in shaping Seneca Polytechnic's internal and external communications strategy, helping communicate to our various audiences and on different channels.

At the core of our strategic plan, we are committed to offering students a unique polytechnic experience and getting them career
- and world-ready.

To help us get there, we're looking for someone who:

Has proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate and mentor a team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a knack for tailoring messages to different audiences and channels and all tied to the big picture.
Has a creative and strategic mindset, with the ability to think big and execute flawlessly.
Can operate at different levels from 10,000 feet strategic to immersing yourself in the details.
Can handle multiple demands on their time and is solutionsoriented and inventive.
Has a solid understanding of the Canadian media landscape.
Is friendly, fun, strategic, confident, engaging, creative.
Thrives on building successful relationships.
And, most importantly, has a passion for education and helping students succeed.

Here's some of what your role will involve:

Playing a senior leadership role on the Marketing and Communications team.
Leading a terrific team of communication experts, supporting them to be their best strategic selves.
Crafting integrated marketing and communications strategies to build engagement with all the audiences we care about: students, employees, alumni, Board of Governors, industry, government.
Leading a robust and proactive issues management program to ensure our brand is always protected and we're ready for any issue the comes our way.
Providing high touch communications support to our senior leadership at Seneca.
Driving a creative, high volume, proactive external communications strategy finding the right media opportunities to tell our #SenecaProud stories.
Providing leadership, strategic guidance, process improvements and datadriven planning.

What you bring to Seneca:

You have a degree in journalism or communications.
You have deep experience ideally, 9+ years in the communications realm, and are highly skilled in both internal and external communications, strategic communications planning, writing and editing, crisis communications, and beyond.
You have strong leadership experience and have worked closely with senior stakeholders.
You work extremely well with people all people.

Are we asking for a lot? Yes, we are. But Seneca is a great place to work, and this is a great opportunity. Give us your best pitch.

Job Details

External Posting Date:

March 11, 2024

External Closing Date:

March 24, 2024

Pay Range:

Payband 13:
$130,955 - $163,692 (

Start Rate:
$130,955 - $147,323)

Hours:
37.5 hours per week

Work Type:

Hybrid

Shift:

Monday to Friday (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Ideal Start Date:
5/6/24

End Date:

Job Type:

Full-time, Permanent

Note:

Seneca requires copies of educational credentials at the time of an interview.

Confirmation of educational credentials in the form of an official Canadian transcript or an official evaluation of international credentials which determines Canadian equivalency will be required upon hire.

Seneca Polytechnic at a Glance:

Seneca Polytechnic is Canada's leading polytechnic with over 4300+ employees, 40,000 full-time students and 23, 400 part-time and continuing education students.

With over 55 years since opening its doors for the first time, Seneca Polytechnic is dedicated to getting our students career
- and world-ready. We offer an education that has no boundaries. And we create great flexible experiences for those who study and work here. The student experience. The employee experience. The community experience. The Seneca experience is a differentiator.

As Canada's leading polytechnic, our core mission is our North Star:
we provide a great education that builds great careers for our graduates. We make a difference so they can make a difference.

None of this happens without the exceptional employees of Seneca - the faculty, support staff and administrators - who