• Job Description

  Req#: 40006

  Date Posted: 10/07/2024
  Req ID: 40006
  Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
  Department: UTM:Office of Communications
  Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
  Position Number: 00044643

  Description:

  About us:
  
  U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

  
  Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning anddiscovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

  
  This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
  
  Your opportunity:
  
  The Office of Communications is the proactive voice of the University of Toronto Mississauga. It handles all broad-based marketing initiatives on campus including branding, visual identity standards and advertising. Working collaboratively and strategically with academic and administrative units across the campus as well as with our community partners and media, we enhance understanding and support of U of T Mississauga nationally and internationally.
  
  The Communications team seeks a Managing Editor who understands the power of effective storytelling, and can use that skill to create high-quality, timely digital and print materials that support the campus’s strategic communications objectives. Reporting to the Director, Marketing and Communications, this individual will write and edit for the UTM home page, act as campus editor for University of Toronto Magazine, createinternal newsletters, and coordinate production activities for other communications and marketing materials. Using critical thinking and professionalism, this individual will liaise with creative professionals and vendors, handle competing deadlines and build strong relationships with internal and external colleagues.
  
  Your responsibilities will include:

  • Developing production schedules, including milestones, critical path, deliverables and reporting projects
  • Overseeing production operations related to communication activities
  • Overseeing the production of promotional and marketing materials
  • Drafting and editing content for print and/or online communications channels
  • Producing promotional and outreach materials
  • Overseeing work of short-term contractors

  Essential Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Journalism, Communications, English or a related field, or an acceptable combination of equivalent experience
  • Minimum five (5) years related experience in a strategic communications role, developing content plans, writing news and features and copyediting
  • Minimum three (3) years related experience managing marketing and communications projects
  • Superior writing, editing, copyediting and proofreading skills are essential requirements
  • Excellent research and reporting skills
  • High level of proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, content management systems and experience with new/emerging media and information technology
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload, work effectively under pressure, manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines
  • Excellent and rapid writing skills and experience translating complex concepts across a broad range of topics into stories that appeal to a general audience
  • Demonstrated ability to uncover and develop stories and find creative ways to tell those stories in terms of style and platforms
  • Experience delivering high-quality content in a range of formats across platforms
  • Ability to manage conflicting priorities and shifting deadlines
  • Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with a range of contributors to the website and magazine to help ensure a regular stream of excellent content

  
  Assets (Nonessential):

  • Knowledge of the University of Toronto or other university environments is highly desirable
  • Knowledge of digital asset management
  • Knowledge of Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop and InCopy

  
  To be successful in this role you will be:

  • Adaptable
  • Communicator
  • Meticulous
  • Multi-tasker
  • Organized
  • Resourceful

  Closing Date: 10/16/2024, 11:59PM ET
  Employee Group: USW
  Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
  Schedule: Monday to Friday 8:45am-5:00pm and occasional evenings and weekends
  Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
  USW Pay Band 15 -- $95,627. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $122,290. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
  Job Category: Communication/Media/Public Relations
  Recruiter: Jessica Halteh

  Lived Experience Statement
  Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

  This role is currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.

• About the company

  The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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