Communications Advisor

**Mission**:
**Competition Info**:
Competition Close Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025 at 11:59PM

Calendar: 12 Month Calendar

**Salary**: Exempt P1 $96,800 - $118,100

FTE: 1.0, 35 hours per week

**Additional Information**:
Advisors work closely with senior leadership (superintendents and directors), an elected Board of Trustees, internal clients, various levels of government, external agencies and community partners on a wide variety of high-profile communication, engagement and corporate partnership initiatives and projects that directly impact the reputation and success of the CBE.

**Position Description**:
**Purpose**

Advisors work closely with senior leadership (superintendents and directors), an elected Board of Trustees, internal clients, various levels of government, external agencies and community partners on a wide variety of high-profile communication, engagement and corporate partnership initiatives and projects that directly impact the reputation and success of the CBE.

An advisor is a highly skilled, strategic and experienced professional whose performance earns the confidence of senior leaders (service unit and school-based), other internal clients and promotes public and employee confidence in the CBE.

To succeed, an advisor must be:

- A strategic thinker with the confidence to provide advice and counsel to senior leaders and clients on communication, engagement or corporate partnership issues, plans, strategies and tactics.
- Able to lead highly effective initiatives that:

- align with the CBE’s Education Plan, values, operational expectations, administrative regulations and operational priorities.
- ensure the communication, engagement or partnership initiative aligns to best practices as well as legislated and associated requirements.
- Able to contribute to reducing the organization’s exposure to risk and protect the organization’s reputation.
- Able to support CBE’s labour relations strategy by planning and responding to labour action, including collective bargaining.

**Accountability**

To succeed, the advisor will:

- Work independently, or as part of a team with senior leadership, trustees and internal clients to plan, initiate, execute, and evaluate internal and external projects that align with defined system objectives.
- Independently lead complex projects with varying scopes and objectives.
- Provide strategic advice and counsel to senior leaders.
- Build, execute and evaluate short and long-term partnership plans in alignment with CBE’s Education Plan, system priorities and objectives.
- Contribute to the development and execution of initiatives in support of collective bargaining efforts.
- Develop tools and tactics in support of CBE’s labour relations strategy, specifically related to potential job labour action.
- Respond rapidly to emerging issues associated with collective bargaining and labour action, enabling CBE’s labour relations strategy.
- Understand the CBE’s Education Plan, other key guiding documents (e.g. annual CBE budget, Student System Accommodation Plan), Dialogue Framework, Partnership Strategy, CBE policies, operational expectations, administrative regulations, collective agreements, and legislation.
- Identify emerging issues and organizational risks and develop the strategies to respond.
- Balance a demanding workload while adjusting to shifting priorities, urgent issues and unforeseen events.
- Develop, implement and evaluate strategies, plans and tactics, while strictly adhering to organizational protocols, deadlines and budget.
- Design and deliver professional development and collaborative learning opportunities for system leaders in a variety of areas such as key message development, media training, community engagement, social media protocols, website best practices.
- Support school-based leaders and other internal clients on communication, engagement and partnership initiatives.
- Represent the department on short and long-term internal committees.
- Provide support and advice regarding government relations, strategic advocacy and event management.
- Collaborate with members of the department and other service units to provide strategic support and planning for identified priorities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement related to communication, engagement, partnerships or other department and system priorities.
- Plan and execute high profile system, joint government and/or partnership events.
- Identify and act on opportunities to continually improve.
- Maintain the confidentiality of information and adhere to policy and regulatory/ legislative requirements (including the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act).

**Major responsibilities**

Advisors plan, lead and support initiatives from inception through to execution and evaluation. Depending on the area of focus, these responsibilities can include but are not limited to:
Communication
- Write briefing notes, communication plans, speaking notes and key messages for senior