Intermediate Specialist, Communications And Advisory Services

Job Type:

Employee

Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs):

N/A

Job Family:

Digital Marketing

# of Open Positions:

1

Faculty/Service - Department:

Student Affairs, Marketing and Public Relations Communications

Campus:

Main Campus

Union Affiliation:

SSUO

Date Posted:

August 03, 2023

Closing Date:

August 14, 2023

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above

Hours per week:

35

Salary Grade:

SSUO Grade 10

Salary Range:

$75,743.00 - $95,678.00

Position purpose:

Reporting to the Manager, Marketing and Promotion, as a member of a highly integrated and creative communications team, the Intermediate Specialist, Communications and Advisory Services provides strategic direction, builds, optimizes, and manages comprehensive and compelling digital and social marketing plans for Student Affairs as well as uOttawa’s national and international recruitment efforts. The Strategist recommends approaches and the tools needed to deliver a solid strategic plan aligned to the business and communication needs of the sector, Student Affairs, and the University.

The Specialist develops a wide range of digital marketing projects and strategies for a variety of clients to increase and maintain student enrollment on the national and international markets and amplify the University of Ottawa recruitment messages across all digital marketing and social platforms.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Advisory role : Develops an in-depth understanding of clients’ business and culture, and of their communications and marketing needs through productive and positive relationships. Identifies new growth opportunities and initiative and does return-on-investment assessments to provide ideas and recommendations to clients. Manages and consolidates relationships with content providers (students and freelancers), online advertising and social media agencies.
• Strategy development : Creates integrated digital and social marketing strategies across digital marketing (ex. advertising, websites, social media, mobile technologies, etc.) that connect to traditional marketing channels, tactics, and material in a seamless client experience to support, improve and ultimately accelerate movement through the enrollment funnel, after conducting research, platform determination, messaging, and audience identification.
• Project management: Implements, manages, tracks, and optimizes well-executed campaigns that reach target audiences while maximizing efficiency and the effectiveness of paid-media budgets. Manages projects from conception through to post-production to ensure its success, including timelines, editorial calendars, budgets, resources, and communication. Plans, creates, publishes, and shares new content on a daily basis that builds meaningful audience connections, increases brand awareness, and encourages community members to engage with the brand.

What you will bring:

• Knowledge of the web design process, usability and accessibility best practices and standards as it pertains to digital communications, online advertising, digital marketing, and social media channels.
• Good organizational skills and strong capacity to manage and track multiple projects and demands with potentially conflicting timelines and milestones in a complex and fast-paced environment.
• Advanced knowledge of tools and technology including online advertising platforms (Ex.: Google
• Bilingualism - both oral and written.
• Knowledge of budget optimization of digital advertising platforms.
• Experience using metrics to assess performance of websites, campaigns, and digital channels to deliver strategies, and providing recommendations.
• Ability to prioritize solutions and strategic plans in line with requirements, scope and timeline.
• Ads, Meta ads), social media publishing platforms (Ex.: Buffer), statistical analysis software (ex.: Google Analytics, Data Studio, Site Improve, Search Console), SEO/SEM tools, Client Relations Managers - CRM (Talisma an asset), Web content management tools (Drupal an asset).
• Creativity for implementation of new technologies and budding ideas.
• Ability to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (digital media, digital marketing, or digital communications), or equivalent experience.
• Experience with website analytics tools and generating visual reports
• Three (3) years of experience in the creation, implementation and evaluation of digital marketing and social media strategies and plans.
• Ability to travel occasionally out of town.
• Strong writing skills and an ability to articulate and document strategic plans.

Key Competencies at uOttawa:

Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa:

Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.

Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.

Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.

Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact [email protected] to communicate the accommodation need. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Note: if this is a union position: The hiring process will be governed by the current collective agreement related to the union affiliation noted above; you can click here to find out more.

If this is a front-line position with responsibilities to interact with students, selected candidates must be rated at the Low Advanced proficiency level or higher for both oral comprehension and reading comprehension in their second official language. The rating is determined by a proficiency test designed by the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute.

Prior to May 1, 2022, the University required all students, faculty, staff, and visitors (including contractors) to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 as defined in Policy 129 – Covid-19 Vaccination. This policy was suspended effective May 1, 2022 but may be reinstated at any point in the future depending on public health guidelines and the recommendations of experts.