Senior Specialist, Communications – 12-month contract

Job Description 

This position is a 12 month fixed term contract. 

As a Senior Communications Advisor with Workleap, you’ll deliver strategic communications and events that help our employees connect the work they do every day with the company's business strategy. You’ll also craft compelling content that’s delivered across multiple channels to help us drive engagement, fuel the feeling of pride and belonging, and bring our company culture to life.  

If you’re an experienced communications professional with a solid track record in providing expert-level advice and managing internal communications for complex projects, we want to hear from you! 

So, what will your new role look like?   

As a member of our team, you will: 

• Collaborate on the development and execution of an engaging and inclusive employee communications strategy aligned with Workleap’s distributed work environment and company values.      
• Assist with communications and logistics to deliver bi-annual, all-employee gatherings (face-to-face). 
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing proactive and reactive communications support and sharing innovative communication strategies and tactics to teams across the company. This includes helping them identify their communication needs and delivering communication strategies that have an impact and are aligned with the company culture.   
• Collaborate on the management and creation of engaging, inclusive, and impactful content for internal events and channels.    
• Collaborate on evolving our communications platforms and revamping our information ecosystem, architecture and foundations.   
• Measure the impact of our communications strategies and tactics and use the findings to improve the way we communicate with employees.     
• Review and edit the team’s written communications.   
• Help manage the communications calendar and publish regular Slack and intranet postings. 

What does your future team look like?   

You'll work closely with the two other communications advisors and the team director. You'll also have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects with different internal stakeholders. 

What are the next challenges awaiting your team?   

As Workleap continues to grow, our team is focused on creating engaging, consistent and transparent communication that help people understand where we’re heading as a company and how they contribute. We also work hard to make sure our approach to communications supports an outstanding employee experience – and in full transparency we’re still figuring out what great communications looks like for a distributed company.  

Qualifications 

• Degree or diploma in communications, mass media, public relations or similar field, with a minimum of 7 years of professional experience in employee communications;
• Experience providing leaders and internal business partners with strategic communications counsel and expertise;
• Ability and interest in learning to work with new technological tools;
• Ability to work effectively in a flexible, distributed office environment;
• Exceptional writing and editing skills in English; fluency in French is a definite asset;
• Ability to take technical and complex information and distill it to key messages that make sense for the audience.