Senior Communications Advisor

Yukon Government
CA - Yukon - Whitehorse
November 4, 2024
Consulting

AMENDMENT - Closing date has been extended to November 22nd, 2024!

This posting is to fill one permanent full-time position, working 75-hours biweekly.

This job is based in the City of Whitehorse, in the beautiful Yukon.

Who we are…

The French Language Services Directorate (FLSD) is a team of twenty-six client-focused professionals dedicated to empowering departments to serve and inform Yukoners in French. We foster strong partnerships with other departments and stakeholders, provide strategic advice rooted in language policy and planning, and offer centralized services such as translation, training and bilingual communications advice.

The opportunity…

The Bilingual Communications Branch seeks a strong leader with a strategic mindset to empower, inspire and supervise a team of five communications professionals. This team supports client departments and FLSD units in achieving their bilingual communications goals. Providing leadership and expertise on high-profile and sensitive projects that often have multi-department or government-wide impacts is a key element of this role.

If you're a highly motivated individual who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced work environment, strives to foster a client-focused and collaborative culture, enjoys leading a team of busy professionals, and is excited to be part of the growth of our organization, you will be a good fit for this position.

Essential Qualifications

Important application requirements:

Please submit your resume in English clearly demonstrating how you meet each of the following qualifications:

Completion of post-secondary education in communications, public relations, journalism, marketing, or a related field.
Experience supervising or managing a team, including providing guidance, mentoring, performance management, and delegating tasks effectively.
Experience developing and implementing communications strategies.
Experience providing communications or strategic advice.
Experience handling high-profile or sensitive projects that require a strategic approach, is an asset.
Experience leading cross-functional teams or coordinating work across multiple departments or stakeholders is an asset.
Experience in communications functions within a government setting is an asset.

Candidates who have education, training, and/or experience equivalent to the essential qualifications listed above may be equally considered.

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Suitability

To best support the achievement of key strategic and business objectives, candidates may be assessed on:

Thinking strategically
Demonstrating client focus
Developing people
Influencing others

Job Specific skills:

Ability to create and implement new approaches and lead change
Commitment to creating and maintaining a client-focus and collaborative culture
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Strong organizational skills
Ability to work well under deadline pressure and manage multiple competing priorities
Organizational awareness; sensitivity and understanding structures, processes, culture, relationships and issues

Additional information

Conditions of Employment: N/A

Relocation to Whitehorse will not be provided and remote work is not available for this position.

Job requirements: Bilingual, French and English.

This position is office based and is occasionally required to work weekends and evenings to attend public engagements, special events or in case of public emergencies.

For any questions

About the position, write to Nancy Power, Manager, Bilingual Communications, French Language Services Directorate, at nancy.power@yukon.ca.

About the recruitment process, write to Katrina Russell, Human Resources Advisor, at katrina.russell@yukon.ca.

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