Communications Advisor Job Listing at City of Edmonton in Edmonton, AB (Job ID 52221)

Description

Join us in playing a pivotal role in shaping Edmonton's future! The City of Edmonton is seeking a dynamic Communications Advisor to develop and execute high-impact communications strategies for transformative economic development and downtown revitalization projects. This is an exceptional opportunity to drive public involvement, enhance the City's profile and attract significant investment.

In this position, you will raise awareness of the City's efforts to create a vibrant and livable downtown, while helping empower local businesses to thrive. Your creative content strategies will be crucial to the success of Urban Planning and Economy's goals and objectives. You'll also help lead strategic, integrated marketing and communications plans in collaboration with other teams from across the organization in order to amplify public awareness of the City's economic development efforts (including economic growth, investment and development).Your ongoing mission: manage public expectations and solidify the City's reputation as a business-friendly powerhouse.

What will you do?

• Provide strategic marketing and communications advice to program areas, ensuring a commitment to moving ideas and projects forward in a positive and collaborative spirit
• Lead the charge in developing integrated communications plans, leveraging strategic communications, marketing, engagement and external relations activities
• Maintain a panoramic view of corporate, departmental and branch issues and priorities, keeping a line of sight into City Council, stakeholder groups, professional associations and other orders of government, in order to fuel your communications strategies
• Engineer marketing and communications activities that effectively share information, ignite public engagement opportunities, celebrate project milestones and protect and enhance the City's reputation
• Deliver timely and responsive issues management, crafting powerful key messages, speaking notes, and briefing notes that cut through the noise
• Unleash your creativity, using innovative tactics and working with internal and external design, web and creative teams using approved City visual identity guidelines both internally and externally
• Write, edit, review, coordinate and manage a wide array of marketing and communications products, including integrated marketing and communications plans, content strategies, news releases, ads, web content, signage, fact sheets, social media posts, blog posts, stories, newsletters, reports and videos, as well as other materials that will amplify our message
• Proactively take the reins on media relations, planning and coordinating rapid responses to media inquiries, proactively identifying issues and preparing spokespeople and spearheading media events

For more on this portfolio, see edmonton.ca/business-economy.