Health Communications Assistant, Healthy Minds

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division Full time

**ABOUT THE JOB**

CMHA BC Division is looking for a Health Communications Assistant with excellent organizational, project management and communications skills to assist with the dissemination of our scholarships and bursaries program, as well as the Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses (HM|HC) team. HM|HC is a provincial community of practice (CoP) that connects campus stakeholders across post-secondary institutions in BC around the mandate of mental well-being and healthy relationships with substances. HM|HC work is done by employing health promotion principles and using a harm reduction framework. The Health Communications Assistant reports to the Co-Lead, Healthy Minds | Healthy Campuses.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Imports and exports data in the community-of-practice database.
- Posts new site content to healthcampuses.ca, does website maintenance and quality assurance, such as fixing links, managing files, preparing images, and editing to meet style guidelines.
- Writes informational and promotional copies for e-newsletters, social media, and other communication materials.
- Supports supervisor in arranging logístical details for learning events, both virtual and in-person
- Supports supervisor in creating/maintaining strategic partnerships and integrating student involvement.
- Monitors social media for news related to campus mental health.
- Organizes and schedules meetings and takes meeting minutes when required.
- Helps prepare regularly scheduled reports.
- Prepares materials for grantees, advisory committee members or delegates of learning events.
- Develops and maintains digital filing system.
- Reviews invoices from suppliers for accuracy and prepares cheque requisition forms for Manager approval.
- Performs other administrative and coordination duties as required.

**ABOUT YOU**

**Qualifications**
- This job is funded through the Canada Summer Jobs program. To be eligible, applicants must:

- be between 15 and 30 years of age at the beginning of the employment period.
- be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment
(Note, *International students are not eligible. Recent immigrants are eligible if they are Canadian Citizens or permanent residents), and
- have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations.

**Education, Experience, and Skills**
- Interest, knowledge, or experience working in health, health promotion, harm reduction, ideally in the non-profit sector.
- Familiarity with higher education and campus communities a strong asset.
- Experience with procedures involved in administration of grants, awards, or bursaries a strong asset.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent project management, time management, and organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to work remotely, meet deadlines and solve problems creatively.
- Familiarity and comfort with communication platforms (e.g., Mailchimp, X(Twitter)), collaboration apps (e.g., MS Teams), website content management systems (e.g., WordPress), as well as confidence learning new software or apps.
- Excellent working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Excel).
- Experience with social media on behalf of an organization or campaign.
- Experience in event planning, including conferences and organizing and facilitating meetings.
- Strong customer service skills and follow-through.
- Interest, knowledge, or experience working with concepts of equity, diversity, and cultural safety.
- Lived experience related to mental health and/or substance use problems is considered an asset.

**Our key values and principles**
- Inclusive
- Proactive
- Compassionate
- Steadfast
- Collaborative

**WORKING CONDITIONS**
- This is a 14-week term role and is located in downtown Vancouver. The position may be able to be extended.
- The usual work week is 30 hours.
- Combination of working from home and working from office required.
- The Administrative Coordinator is a unionized role with the Health Services and Support - Community Subsector Association. The hourly wage is $24.76-$26.38.
- CMHA BC will collect union dues on behalf of the Health Sciences Association.

**HOW TO APPLY**

ABOUT US

Founded in 1918, The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a national charity that helps maintain and improve mental health for all Canadians. As the nation-wide leader and champion for mental health and addiction, CMHA helps people access the community resources they need to build resilience and support recovery from mental illness and/or addiction.

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