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Communications Specialist (Temporary) – ( 230002QK )
Description
Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that accomplishes operational excellence. Bringing together individuals with diverse backgrounds, talents, and expertise, our 26,000 team members in over 400 locations worldwide are vital to making our Company stronger.
Your Opportunity
The Communications Specialist is part of our Employee Communications team and helps us reach the hearts and minds of our employees with communication experiences that shift behaviors to support and drive long-term business strategy. Reporting directly to the Director, Employee Communications, this opportunity is for a twelve-month contract position.
In this role, you support the successful creation, development, and execution of communications strategies and associated materials that connect our people and help employees understand their role in bringing Stantec’s Strategic Plan and brand to life.
You will be working in close partnership with Functional Service Team (FST) partners and Marketing, Communications, and Public Relations (MCPR) colleagues to help keep our 26,000 global employees informed, engaged, and inspired.
This role works in a fast-paced, complex environment with competing demands, requiring a high level of initiative, efficiency, accuracy, flexibility, confidentiality, and discretion.
Your Key Responsibilities
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Support effective communications plans including creative campaign concepts, implementation plans, and timelines.
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Identify and frame key issues and messages by gathering, analyzing, and integrating conflicting and sometimes incomplete information from numerous sources.
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Communicate information to a variety of audiences to persuade, convince, build support, educate, change behaviour, and promote understanding with others.
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Write communication content including but not limited to email copy, intranet articles, blogs, video briefs, etc. Adapt content for a variety of mediums.
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Accurately assess, prioritize, and manage multiple project demands.
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Monitor and measure the delivery of internal communications through different communications channels.
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Partner with Stantec’s graphic design and/or video teams as required to develop supporting visual/multimedia aids to support key communications (e.g., infographics, videos).
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Publish content on Stantec’s intranet and support other internal communications platforms as required (e.g., Yammer, Teams).
Qualifications
Your Capabilities and Credentials
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills.
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Strong organizational and project coordination skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously and adapt to changing environments.
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Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a team, as well as independently and with minimal supervision.
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Demonstrated proficiency with Web-based tools and Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Internet Explorer.
Education and Experience
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Post-secondary degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing.
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5 years’ experience working in a communications-related role (agency experience or professional services industry experience preferred).
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.
Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.
Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.
Primary Location : Canada-Alberta-Calgary
Other Locations : Canada-Ontario-Markham, Canada-British Columbia-Vancouver, Canada-Alberta-Edmonton, Canada-Ontario-Toronto
Work Locations :
Vancouver BC
Organization : BC-1186 Employee Communications-Corporate-Canada
Employee Status : Regular
Job Level : Individual Contributor
Travel : No
Schedule : Full-time
Job Posting : Jul 5, 2023, 7:46:08 AM
Req ID: 230002QK
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with local, state and federal laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans
