Senior Manager, Strategic Communications

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Salary: $8,810.92–$13,202.50 CAD monthly

Company

hirify.global is a public research and teaching university, and its Faculty of Medicine delivers education, training, and research programs across British Columbia.

What you will do

• Develop and direct integrated communications strategies for undergraduate, postgraduate, and health professions education programs.
• Advise senior Faculty leadership on strategic communications, public affairs, government relations, stakeholder engagement, and reputational matters.
• Lead communications planning across distributed education sites, training hubs, programs, and regional stakeholders throughout British Columbia.
• Direct executive, media, internal, digital, web, government, and stakeholder communications priorities.
• Lead issues management and crisis communications, including risk assessment, response planning, and coordination with university communications functions.
• Establish communications metrics and evaluation frameworks, and use performance insights to improve impact.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum seven years of related experience, communications services experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strategic-level experience with communications and marketing, including developing, implementing, and evaluating communications plans.
• Demonstrated crisis communications and issues management experience with strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage sensitive information, and coordinate diverse stakeholders.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and respect for diverse perspectives.

Nice to have

• Experience with emerging digital and social media platforms.
• Experience working in complex academic, healthcare, or public-sector environments.
• Experience supervising employees or external communications service providers.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time staff position with ongoing employment.
• Work within a large, distributed Faculty of Medicine serving education and training programs across British Columbia.
• Collaborate with academic, clinical, government, health authority, and university stakeholders.
• Position is classified as Staff - Non Union.