Senior Officer, Marketing and Communications Part-time Job

Reporting to the Marketing and Communications Manager, the incumbent plans, develops and implements marketing strategies for the faculty and staff. Coordinates the faculty's social media, actively develops promotional tools for services, programs and events, and programs and events, and ensures that the faculty's visual identity is respected.

 

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Promotional Strategies: Establish strategies to promote faculty services, programs and activities taking advantage of social media, print media, the University's network of marketing groups and others as needed. Participates in the planning of various events organized or scheduled at the faculty to provide marketing support and anticipate needs.

• Production of promotional materials: Identify the needs and expectations of staff members in relation to faculty events, services and activities. Create promotional materials for faculty events and services, such as promotional posters. Provide graphic design services for faculty projects. Select, design, order and establish distribution parameters of promotional materials for the faculty and its events.

• Evaluation: Monitor and track marketing campaigns, including the preparation of reports and analysis. Provide feedback and suggest improvements for future promotional activities. Review trends and keep abreast of best practices in marketing, particularly in the context of the university and higher education faculty. 

• Visual identity and increased visibility: Develop a visual identity for the faculty and occasionally for larger events, such as a faculty-organized conference. Maintain an up-to-date list of internal and external events that involve the faculty and/or staff in order to establish appropriate strategic marketing plans.

 

What you will bring:

• Postsecondary education in marketing, in a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• At least one year’s experience in marketing or in similar duties.

• Ability to work with minimum supervision, take the initiative, and remain self-motivated.

• Proven ability to be diplomatic and tactful.

• Organizational skills, with the ability to work well under pressure to meet deadlines. 

• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.

• Creativity and ability to translate an idea from concept to graphic design.

• Experience in using various graphic design software.

• Experience in using computer hardware and software such as word processors, spreadsheets, databases, email, and the Internet.

• Bilingualism – French and English (spoken and written).

 

 

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 is home to a dynamic community of over 50,000 students, faculty and staff, who live, work and study in both French and English. Our campus is a crossroad of cultures and ideas, where bold minds come together to inspire game-changing ideas. We believe in the power of representation, and that increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff supports this objective. Our goal is to provide students with the best possible learning experience, in an environment that reflects the diversity of its people, their ideas, and their identities.