Digital Communications Specialist

1 week ago


Waterloo, Canada KidsAbility Centre for Child Development Full time

**Digital Communications Specialist**
- Full-time, Contract | October _27_, 2025 - October _27_, 2026_
- Location: Waterloo_

**About KidsAbility**:
We are a not-for-profit, equal opportunity employer supporting over 17,000 children and youth to reach their social, physical, communication and behavioural goals each year. Providing early and exceptional family-centred services in the Waterloo and Guelph-Wellington regions, we believe that by living our values, our impact can be profound, and together, we can build brighter futures. We’re looking for the right people to join our team; supporting children, youth, and families.

At KidsAbility, we offer:

- Ongoing training and development opportunities, empowering you to enhance your skills
- A supportive, collaborative, and inclusive work environment dedicated to family-centred care
- Organizational commitment to innovation and research; continually evolving our approaches so we may serve with purpose and value
- Initiatives to support your well-being including social events, opportunities to give back to your community and access to Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Comprehensive benefits and optional group RRSP program, short
- and long-term disability income protection benefits, and generous vacation package and paid personal leave days

**About the Opportunity**:
Areas of responsibility include but are not limited to:

- Management of all KidsAbility-managed web properties, creating and curating webpages, managing updates, ensuring accuracy and relevance of content, SEO
- Creates and delivers KidsAbility’s social media plan, including measurement and analytics.
- Lead content development for KidsAbility Centre for Child Development, responsible for researching and delivering a wide range of content (i.e., news and feature stories, newsletters, website content, social media posts, advertisements, and video scripts).
- Responsible for ensuring all communications meet AODA and other legislative requirements.
- Assists in the delivery of KidAbility’s Strategic Plan.
- Offers communications support to the Director of Marketing and Communications.
- Works collaboratively with employees across the organization, including the KidsAbility Foundation and KidsAbility School, to enhance KidsAbility’s overall digital presence, build brand awareness and demonstrate community impact.
- Ensures all content created complies with KidsAbility’s policies and brand guidelines.
- Assists in the organization and implementation of special events as needed.
- Prepares and analyzes monthly digital media analytics to measure the impact of KidsAbility communications activities.
- Possess a valid driver’s license and have access to a reliable vehicle with public liability and property damage coverage

In addition to the above qualifications, the following skills and experience will be strong assets:

- Degree or diploma in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism or combination of relevant education and experience.
- 5+ years of experience writing content for a wide range of communication channels, including print, website, and social media in a not-for-profit or public sector environment.



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