Communications Specialist

**About Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada**

Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) is one of the most influential accounting organizations in the world. Working with the provincial, territorial and Bermudian regulatory bodies, CPA Canada supports the profession and represents Canadian CPAs at the national and international levels.

Nationally, CPA Canada acts in the public interest to promote transparency in financial markets, prepare CPAs for a rapidly evolving business environment through extensive guidance and programming, and contributes to standard setting and policy making. Globally, CPA Canada works together with international bodies to build a stronger accounting profession worldwide.

**Canada’s Standard-setting Boards and Oversight Council**

Canada’s standard-setting Boards and Oversight Council comprise the Reporting and Assurance Oversight Council, Accounting Standards Board, Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, Canadian Sustainability Standards Board and the Public Sector Accounting Board.
- The boards establish and maintain standards on accounting, auditing and sustainability disclosures to serve the public interest.
- The oversight council appoints board members and oversee and provide input into the boards’ activities, ensuring that the process for setting standards functions as it should.

Members of the boards and oversight council are mainly volunteers and represent a wide range of individuals with various backgrounds from both the private and public sectors, such as financial statement preparers and users, auditors, academics and regulators.
- The diverse makeup of the boards and oversight council volunteer members ensures that differing viewpoints are considered when developing standards.
- This enables the boards and oversight council to serve the public interest through a process free of undue influence from specific professions, organizations and other groups.

**About the opportunity**

As Communications Specialist in the Standards Group, you will contribute to independent standard-setting in Canada to develop high-quality financial and non-financial reporting and assurance standards for Canadians. You will leverage your expertise to provide marketing communications support to the Standards Group staff (the teams working with Canada’s Standard-setting Boards and Oversight Council) for various communications vehicles and marketing requirements, from web content to event planning/marketing and many other opportunities.

**This hybrid role offers the flexibility to work remotely and can be aligned with our Vancouver, Ottawa, or Toronto CPA Canada offices**. **The targeted annual salary range for this position is $72,000 to $80,000 and is commensurate with experience.**

**What you'll do**

In this role, you will:

- Develop both organic and paid social media campaigns that support board objectives. Engage with audiences on social media platforms and analyze performance to optimize engagement.
- Participate in video and audio production activities (e.g., onsite vendor management during video shoots, posting to YouTube).
- Research (e.g., audience identification, identifying new tools/approaches for communication).
- Participate in event (onsite) and vendor management as required, including stock image sourcing, booking and coordinating photographers for events.

**What we're looking for**
- Completion of a post-secondary degree/diploma in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or related field.
- 3-5 years relevant work experience.
- Comprehensive understanding of the role of communication principles and practices within an organization.
- Exceptional research, writing, editing and presentation skills.
- Experience developing and implementing communications plans, including various forms of internal and external communications vehicles such as printed materials, social media, video, and digital/web.
- Well-developed technical skills in Microsoft Office products; knowledge of digital and social media communications tools (e.g., Google Analytics, HubSpot, Hootsuite).
- Sound judgement: strong communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills as well as the ability to establish effective work relationships with internal and external stakeholders and colleagues.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills to manage multiple projects and priorities on time and to adapt to changing situations.
- Strategic and creative thinking; ability to motivate and coordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives.

**What it's like to work here**

At CPA Canada, we are proud to foster a welcoming and inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity and promotes health and wellness for all employees. We believe in offering a flexible and balanced work environment, where staff can thrive both professionally and personally. Our headquarters are located**in downtown Toronto, with regional offices in Vancouver, Ottawa, and Montreal. As part of the CPA Canada