Communications Officer- Adaptation and Community

4 weeks ago

Ottawa, Canada Federation of Canadian Municipalities Full time

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) is the national voice of municipal governments, representing the interests of cities and communities with the federal government.

**Position**

**Communications Officer**

**Department**

**Growth & Development - Green Municipal Fund (GMF) - Communications**

**Classification**

**Level 4**

**Salary**

**Our salaries generally range from $66,000 - $74,000, and are based on qualifications and experience**

**Languages**

**English required, French is an asset**

**Term**

**Permanent Full-Time**

**Location**

**Hybrid (Ottawa)/Remote (Canada)**

**Why GMF is the place for you**

At GMF, we empower our people to create change where it has the most impact - municipalities. GMF is a $1.6 billion permanent endowment from the Government of Canada, managed at arm's length, making it nimble and available for higher-risk, higher-impact initiatives. A further $530M investment into GMF to support the National Adaptation Strategy was announced in November 2022. Our team is committed to helping local governments switch to sustainable practices faster. GMF is the cornerstone program of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).

Our unique mix of funding, resources, and training gives municipalities the tools they need to build resiliency — and create better lives for Canadians. Through GMF, municipalities have reduced carbon emissions; built better transportation assets; constructed efficient and resilient buildings; diverted waste from landfill; made previously unusable land available for development; and improved soil and water quality.

**You in this role**:
Under the general direction and supervision of the Manager, Communications - Adaptation, the Communications Officer develops and implements communications and marketing plans and provides communications and marketing services in support of FCM’s Green Municipal Fund.

At GMF, we empower our people to create change where it has the most impact - municipalities. GMF is a $1.6 billion permanent endowment from the Government of Canada, managed at arm's length, making it nimble and available for higher-risk, higher-impact initiatives. A further $530M investment into GMF to support the National Adaptation Strategy was announced in November 2022. Our team is committed to helping local governments switch to sustainable practices faster. GMF is the cornerstone program of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM).

Our unique mix of funding, resources, and training gives municipalities the tools they need to build resiliency — and create better lives for Canadians.

We are hiring for two roles:

- Communications Officer for GMF’s new Local Leadership for Climate Adaptation initiative, which provides funding and skills development support to communities to adapt and build long-term resiliency to the impacts of climate change.
- Communications Officer to provide communications services to GMF’s new Growing Canada’s Community Canopies initiative which is aimed at supporting the planting of trees in and around communities across the country.

The Communications Officer leads and contributes to the development of communications and marketing products and activities such as digital promotion, social media content, website content, digital communications, videos, case studies, reports, presentation materials, digital images and other resources, in both official languages.

The Communications Officer contributes to the development, monitoring and evaluation of communications and marketing strategies, plans and trends. They also support the assessment of communications activities and recommends measures, processes and tools for quality assurance, effective dissemination of resources and continuous improvement.

The work at FCM includes FCM becoming an even more member-driven organization that balances the realization of its goals with a people-centered approach. The incumbent embodies FCM’s commitment to being a healthy, diverse, inclusive, and anti-racist organization. As a member of the team, the Communication Officer works in a manner that embraces these values, the corporate culture and the passion for FCM’s mandate.

**What you’ll be doing**:

- Creates and/or edits copy for promotional and social media content in both French and English
- Coordinates the production of communications tools (e.g. web content, promotional material, social media content, e-bulletins, reports, presentations, guidebooks, case studies, videos) from concept, design, writing, editing and translation through to production, quality assurance and publication;
- Substantively edits, copy-edits and conducts quality assurance, ensures appropriate document structure, grammatical accuracy, adherence to editorial standards and FCM style guide in both French and English;
- Contributes to the development and maintenance of FCM-wide editorial and design standards for communications materials;
- Gathers analytics related to social med

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