Marketing Writer Specialist

Are you passionate about processes, researching, writing, editing, and are a critical thinker?
- Are you a multitasker with the ability to juggle multiple deadlines and priorities while under pressure?
- Do you have seven to 10 years of experience in communications, marketing, or professional writing?
- Are you interested being part of a supportive team and growing in a company that encourages entrepreneurship?

JLR is a creative, tight-knit, and mentorship-focused community with unique opportunities for driven people with tenacity and spirit. Our organization is made up of diverse employee owners with specialized expertise in a wide range of disciplines. Joining the JLR team means joining a dynamic group of innovative engineering, architecture, and planning professionals and support staff. You will have the opportunity to help establish new clients and partner with existing ones to develop insightful solutions and see projects through from inception to completion.

If you are innovative and collaborative, thrive when presented with new challenges, and are eager to take your career in new directions, then JLR is the right environment for you.

**Your Role**:
Choose your own adventure Let’s talk about how your skills, experience, goals, and passions can find a home at JLR. Your role will include:

- Write and edit promotional content across the company for both internal and external use.
- Plan, research, and write press releases, maintain press list, and act as media liaison.
- Write and update website content.
- Coordinate content and strategy related to company presence at conferences and industry events.
- Develop diverse materials for external print and electronic distribution, such as advertorials, stakeholder and client presentations, brochures, onesheets, and ad copy.
- Maintain award list and coordinate and prepare award submissions.
- Develop internal corporate communications such as company news updates, internal FAQs, and other communications as needed.
- Write speeches and speaking notes.
- Provide social media support when needed.
- Develop and implement marketing strategies and provide in-house expertise.

**Why Join Us?**

We live, work, breathe, sleep, and thrive in the communities we build. We’re growing our presence in both eastern and western Ontario and all along the great lakes and St. Lawrence River corridor. We’re proud of our reputation and longevity in the Ottawa region and we love northern Ontario and the glorious bounty of the natural would. You should also know:

- We’re 100% employee owned with share ownership opportunities at all levels.
- Work-life balance is strongly encouraged, including flexibility with work hours and remote working (and you’ll benefit from remote working stipends to help offset the cost of setting up a productive home-work environment).
- We offer stable, long-term employment with opportunities for advancement based on merit, skill, and initiative and an “open-door” policy where communication is strongly encouraged.
- We foster a friendly, welcoming, and team-oriented atmosphere that encourages innovation and collaboration we have an established depth of technical and support resources that can efficiently and effectively deliver small and large multidisciplinary projects.
- We provide a flexible career direction with opportunities to choose your own path and interesting and exciting assignments ranging in size and type.
- We provide competitive salaries, reviewed annually.
- Health and dental benefits and RRSP/DPSP programs are offered immediately.
- Our merit-and-profit bonus program is our key to recognizing performance.
- Extracurricular social events are provided so we can all have some fun along the way (annual “Prom”, golf tournaments, sports teams, department lunches, summer BBQs, and much more).

**Application Instructions**
- At JLR, each of us contributes to inclusion and we all have a role to play. Our culture is the result of our behaviours, our personal commitment, our curiosity, how we collaborate, and the ways that we courageously share our perspectives and encourage others to do the same. In turn, our environment inspires us to try new things, speak openly, and be bold. It brings us together in ways that help us stand out. Our inclusive culture empowers all of us to connect, belong, and grow._