Job Description

Senior PR Specialist, Buildings (Temporary) - ( 230003OR )

Description

Grow with the best. Join a smart, creative, and inspired team that accomplishes operational excellence. The Stantec community unites more than 25,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

Your Opportunity

We need a storyteller. A passionate communicator. A creative professional. A trustworthy counselor. Why? We\'re Stantec - a global company of architects, engineers, and scientists that designs with community in mind. The Stantec community unites more than 25,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

To join our global PR team, we\'re seeking an experienced professional who knows social media and media relations inside and out. Can you write with the best of them? Thrive in a fast-paced environment? Build and carry out campaign plans? Great! You\'re the team member we\'re looking for.

We have a spot for a Senior Public Relations Specialist on our team, and it\'s got your name written all over it. This role requires someone who has serious skills when it comes to PR-a team player who always thinks strategically, can see creative stories and bring them to life, provide counsel to leadership, and respond quickly to shifting priorities.

In this role, you\'ll provide direction on media relations, social media strategy, content marketing, issues/crisis management, and reputation management in partnership with practice Marketing & PR/Communications colleagues and leadership. Combining your business savvy and PR genius, you\'ll look for creative ways to tell the most critical stories stemming from our Buildings teams.

This is a temporary position, anticipated to be 12 months duration.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Senior Public Relations Manager, some of the activities you\'ll focus your energy on include, but are not limited to:

Partnering with Buildings Marketing colleagues globally to develop and implement an integrated marketing and PR plan that tells the Company\'s news and brand story across multiple channels

Developing a strong understanding of the built environment, company\'s brand, client needs, key differentiators, and market trends

Communicating with national industry publications to contribute expert articles and blogs, and to seek editorial coverage

Developing and managing communications initiatives involving news releases, social media outreach, content marketing, research, interviews, media training and spokesperson support, media monitoring and tracking, and other support on special projects and events

Overseeing media outreach and preparing practice leadership by developing briefing documents; identifying opportunities and issues; and developing relevant remarks, speeches, and talking points for them

Providing social media and communications training for internal groups

Qualifications

Your Capabilities and Credentials:

Detail-oriented and organized, with exceptional prioritization skills

Ability to effectively balance multiple priorities

Fundamental understanding of the media landscape (traditional, social)

Excellent interviewing, written and verbal communication skills

Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment, as well as to work autonomously

Familiarity with photography and video preferred

Ability to quickly establish credibility with multiple audiences and articulate clearly within tight deadlines

Strategic mindset and strong business acumen

Requirements:

Professional writing (samples required)

Campaign planning and facilitation

Social media strategy and administration

Education and Experience:

Bachelor\'s degree in communications, public relations, English, journalism, or marketing.

Minimum 5 to 8 years of public relations experience in corporate or agency preferred.

Stantec is a place where smart, caring people come to build on each other\'s talents and make an impact on the world. Find your fit. Apply today.

Benefits Summary: Full-time and part-time employees will have access to health, dental, and vision plans, a well-being program, health care spending account, wellness spending accounts, group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, group tax-free savings account, life and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, short-term/long-term disability plans, emergency travel benefits, tuition reimbursement, professional membership fee coverage, and paid time off.

Temporary/casual employees will have access to group registered retirement savings plan, employee stock purchase program, and group tax-free savings account.

Primary Location : Canada-Ontario-Toronto

Other Locations : Canada-Ontario

Work Locations :

Toronto ON

Organization : BC-1516 Public Relations-Corporate-Canada

Employee Status : Temporary

Job Level : Individual Contributor

Travel : No

Schedule : Full-time

Job Posting : Sep 8, 2023, 11:07:10 AM

Req ID: 230003OR

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