Communications specialist Offres d'emploi - Bradford West Gwillimbury, ON

Communications Writer

Date Posted : 04 / 04 / 2025

Req ID : 42393

Faculty / Division : Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Department : APSC Admin. Units

Campus : St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Position Number : 00032465

Description : About us :

U of T Engineering is Canada’s #1 engineering school and among the world’s best. Our diverse community includes more than 5,200 undergraduates, 2,600 graduate students, 340 staff, 270 faculty and over 50,000 alumni. Through innovations in engineering education and research, we prepare the next generation of global engineering leaders to address the world’s most pressing challenges. The Faculty’s Engineering Strategic Communications team is a dynamic group of award-winning communications professionals who are driven to find fresh, authentic and relevant ways to share the stories of U of T Engineering students, staff, faculty and alumni. We embrace a diversity of perspectives in our design and execution of integrated communications initiatives that advance U of T Engineering's strategic priorities, strengthen our relationships with key stakeholders, and expand our reach and engage new audiences.

Your opportunity :

As the communications writer, you are thrilled by finding a unique story and telling it in a way that excites and inspires your audience. You take a holistic approach to storytelling, considering the best use of multimedia and channels that enable you to reach your audiences most effectively. An outstanding writer, skilled interviewer and strategic thinker, you excel at finding fresh news hooks and fascinating story angles that illustrate impact and advance strategic goals. You are excited by scientific and technical topics — you're energized by finding an accessible way to explain how colloidal quantum dots work, how engineered hydrogels could help reverse blindness, or how students are designing new artificial intelligence algorithms for a self-driving car. You seek out diverse voices to highlight different experiences that uphold our commitment to equity and inclusion. Outside of long-form writing prowess, you also bring the skills to write advertising and marketing copy that will help catch the attention of our various audience members. And are adept at navigating multiple projects on competing deadlines and are keen to contribute your communications experience and expertise to lead the design of communications campaigns underpinned by excellent content. You thrive as a key contributor and producer on a highly collaborative team, and are a trusted advisor to your colleagues and peers, helping them find creative and effective ways to achieve their own goals.

Your responsibilities will include :

• Writing news and feature stories; coordinating the preparation of images and copy for story generation.
• Developing advertising and marketing copy for a variety of channels including print, social, digital and web.
• Conducting interviews with leaders, faculty, staff and students for external publication.
• Writing and editing copy and content to advance communications objectives.
• Researching and recommending story ideas that advance priorities and initiatives.
• Implementing plans across a broad range of marketing / communicationchannels.
• Liaising with departmental staff to support effective content / story development.
• Advising contacts on the development of effective marketing campaigns.

Essential Qualifications :

Assets (Nonessential) :

To be successful in this role you will be :

Closing Date : 04 / 14 / 2025, 11 : 59PM ET

Employee Group : USW

Appointment Type : Budget - Continuing

Schedule : Full-Time

Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone :

USW Pay Band 11 $75,223. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $96,196. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation / Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.

Job Category : Communication / Media / Public Relations

Lived Experience Statement

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Diversity Statement

The University of Toronto embraces Diversity and is building a culture of belonging that increases our capacity to effectively address and serve the interests of our global community. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized persons, women, persons with disabilities, and people of diverse sexual and gender identities. We value applicants who have demonstrated a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and recognize that diverse perspectives, experiences, and expertise are essential to strengthening our academic mission.

As part of your application, you will be asked to complete a brief Diversity Survey. This survey is voluntary. Any information directly related to you is confidential and cannot be accessed by search committees or human resources staff. Results will be aggregated for institutional planning purposes. For more information, please see http : / / uoft.me / UP .

Accessibility Statement

The University strives to be an equitable and inclusive community, and proactively seeks to increase diversity among its community members. Our values regarding equity and diversity are linked with our unwavering commitment to excellence in the pursuit of our academic mission.

The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities.

If you require any accommodations at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact [email protected] .

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