Senior Manager of Communications & Marketing, CHILD-BRIGHT Network

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Salary: $7,158.42–$10,292.25 CAD monthly

Company

hirify.global employs the position as the administrative home of CHILD-BRIGHT, a pan-Canadian research network focused on improving life outcomes for children with brain-based developmental disabilities and their families.

What you will do

• Lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of the CHILD-BRIGHT communications plan and related project work plans.
• Advise network programs, researchers, trainees, committees, and leaders on audiences, messaging, accessibility, channels, timing, and communications risk.
• Research, write, edit, and coordinate reports, newsletters, impact narratives, presentations, briefing materials, award nominations, and other communications products.
• Oversee website, email, social media, and other digital channels, using analytics and audience feedback to improve reach, discoverability, and engagement.
• Coordinate brand, media, stakeholder, event, grant, funding proposal, and knowledge-mobilization communications.
• Direct communications staff, contractors, vendors, translators, designers, web providers, and other service providers while monitoring schedules, budgets, quality, and deliverables.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline and at least five years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience managing communications plans and projects in a complex, multi-stakeholder organization or network.
• Strong research, writing, editing, plain-language, presentation, storytelling, interpersonal, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Experience coordinating websites, email, social media, marketing, events, public engagement, external contractors, and service providers.
• Knowledge of accessible and inclusive communications practices and experience working with people with lived experience or community partners.
• Commitment to respecting diverse perspectives and developing knowledge and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of health research, patient-oriented research, research funding, knowledge mobilization, scientific writing, or brain-based developmental disabilities.
• Ability in French.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, content management systems, email marketing systems, social platforms, web analytics, and content discoverability practices.
• Interest in responsible applications of AI and emerging technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Work across institutions and programs with scientific and operational leaders, researchers, families, partners, funders, and communications professionals.
• Collaborate with lived experience partners and community stakeholders to co-design or inform communications.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy within approved network priorities, standards, and governance processes.
• Full-time staff position represented as non-union employment.