Specialist, Strategic Engagement and Communications

**Position**: Specialist, Strategic Engagement and Communications
**Status**:Permanent Full-time
**Salary range**:$70,000 - 85,000
**Location**: Remote office with the ability to travel to our office in Vancouver as required, and to communities for client work.

Castlemain is headquartered in Vancouver with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. Our team works remotely and enjoy optional access to our offices across the country.

**About the Castlemain Group**
At Castlemain, we work for and with Indigenous organizations and communities. We strive to build meaningful and productive relationships that serve the needs of our clients, and we are proud that many of our new clients choose to work with us on a repeat basis. Based on our expertise, our services are also sought after by all levels of government. With offices on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam in Vancouver, our team consists of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous professionals who bring together diverse backgrounds in communications and engagement, policy development, natural resource management, and sustainable economic development. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in the work we undertake.

At Castlemain our services are organized with one objective in mind: to achieve results for our clients. Our services are performed by an award-winning team that possesses a wide range of knowledge, experience, and skill. At Castlemain, the services we offer are organized within five practice groups: _Governance and Policy_, _Economic Development_, _Programs_, _Strategic Engagement and Communications, _and _Negotiation and Government-to-Government Relationship_.

**What we offer at Castlemain**
Our success is built on the drive, initiative and dedication of our clients and team. We are focused on providing a highly engaged client focused culture. Our team is passionate about driving the business and making a difference.
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits
- Professional development and training program
- Centrally located head office in the heart of downtown Vancouver on transit
- Flexibility for remote work during the current pandemic and beyond

**Summary**
Under the direction of the Vice President, Strategic Engagement and Communications, the Specialist, Strategic Engagement and Communications will be a primary point of contact with clients and will coordinate or manage project resources across the practice area and the company. The Specialist will have excellent written and oral communications skills and is passionate about partnering with Indigenous communities and organizations to support our client’s vision for the future.

The Specialist has demonstrated expertise in strategic engagement and/or communications, they lead client relationships and they manage people and resources inside projects. The Specialist also provides overall project support to other practice areas based on their experience and expert knowledge of strategic engagement and/or communications.

**Job responsibilities**
- Project Management Responsibilities_
- Work with the Castlemain leadership team to coordinate project resources;
- Manage a range of client projects from smaller projects to those of intermediate scope, complexity and duration;
- Work with the corporate team to ensure project time and expenses are accurately tracked;
- Develop work plans, budgets and schedules and manage all aspects of their execution during the lifecycle of a project;
- Act as the primary point of contact and work closely with our clients to keep them informed of progress and make relevant project decisions;
- Manage scope change and change order processes; and
- Develop and implement recommendations/solutions and ensure our clients receive the necessary assistance to carry project work forward.

**_Strategic Engagement /Community Engagement_**
- Provide expert advice to the Vice President, Strategic Engagement and Communications during the development of project proposals and during development of work plans with our Indigenous clients;
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of various community engagement processes and engagement practices and work together with the Vice President, Strategic Engagement and Communications to see this knowledge further strengthen the client work at Castlemain;
- Organize all aspects of strategic engagement events, which could range from community meetings, workshops, forums, and AGAs to large province wide or Canada wide summits;
- Communicate effectively with our clients;
- Work with our clients to develop communications and engagement strategies, which often include specific communications tactics and plans ;
- Maintain expertise and currency in industry leading information; and
- Write or oversee various research and/or communications documents, website content, press releases, client communications materials and more, both for clients as