Manager, Marketing & Communications

Are you a strategic and dynamic leader in marketing and communications? Do you have a passion for developing engaging messaging and driving behaviour change? We invite you to consider joining our team as a manager, Marketing and Communications.

In this role, you'll report to the director and oversee the operations of our marketing, communications, and engagement initiatives as part of the Stakeholder Experience, Marketing, and Communications division. You'll have the opportunity to lead a dedicated portfolio-based team in crafting and executing integrated, stakeholder-focused strategies that support internal operations and advance our mission of promoting workplace health and safety. This manager will support enterprise initiatives.

How you'll make a difference: You'll build the understanding and trust that help WorkSafeBC serve workers, employers, and health care providers across B.C.

Where you'll work
At WorkSafeBC, we offer a model that combines the convenience of some remote work **** with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you'll work three or more days a week in our Richmond office.

• Oversee marketing and communications services across divisions, developing and implementing plans to achieve strategic goals.
• Advise team leaders, directors, and senior executives on strategies and materials for marketing, communication, and engagement objectives.
• Provide consultation and strategic direction on traditional and digital channels, including worksafebc.com, WorkSafe Network (WSN), divisional hubs and newsletters, social media, video, print, and in-person engagements to ensure a consistent user and client experience.
• Champion the organization's strategic priorities, brand, and experience framework, ensuring alignment with overall objectives.

We're looking for people who can:

• Promote a stakeholder-centered approach, ensuring exceptional service to stakeholders while building collaborative relationships.
• Lead and support team members on priorities and objectives, fostering an inclusive and respectful environment.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in writing and verbally to a range of audiences including senior executives.
• Oversee multiple projects and initiatives at once, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with organizational goals.

Your background and experience

• A degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or Business, or another relevant discipline.
• A minimum of six years of experience in a combined communications, marketing, or creative services function.
• A minimum three years of experience managing people and projects.
• Experience in issues management, research and experience design, or project management is considered an asset.

We'll consider equivalent combinations of education and experience.

Important to know
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Successfully meet the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review Act to work with children and/or vulnerable adults.

WorkSafeBC's COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023; however, we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We're honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What's it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It's challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our benefits
As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work - and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Learn more: Find out what we offer .

Salary: $116,186 - $141,166 / annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, they must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments before the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require accommodation during the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.