Content and Creative Specialist

Internal/External Posting Notice

Title: Content and Creative Specialist

Department: Policy, Campaigns & Communications

Status: Full-time, unionized

Location: Ottawa, ON Canada

Immediate Supervisor: Manager, Communications

**Salary**: $71,937.83 - $93,410.60

Level: Band 3

Application Deadline**: February 17, 2025**

Oxfam Canada is an affiliate of the international Oxfam Confederation networked in over 85 countries as part of a global movement for change. Our mission is to build lasting solutions to poverty and injustice with a focus on improving the lives and promoting the rights of women and girls. We work directly with communities, partners and women's rights organizations to challenge the systems that perpetuate inequality and keep people poor. Together we seek to influence those in power to ensure that women trapped in poverty have a say in the critical decisions that affect them, their families and entire communities. That’s why we believe that ending global poverty begins with women’s rights.

Oxfam Canada offers a generous compensation and benefits program, but more than that, we offer the opportunity to be a part of our global movement for change. If you advocate for gender equality, are passionate about women’s rights, and share our values of Equality, Empowerment, Solidarity, Inclusiveness, Accountability, and Courage - we want you on our team

**SCOPE OF POSITION**:
The Content and Creative Specialist will work in close collaboration with other Oxfam Canada staff to produce compelling content and stories to demonstrate Oxfam Canada’s value and impact and inspire the public to support us. As a passionate communicator, the Content and Creative Specialist is responsible for developing our content strategy, and produce stories in various formats for different channels to engage and mobilize a variety of audiences around Oxfam’s mission and vision. The Content and Creative Specialist will be a key contributor to raising awareness around the injustice of poverty and inequality, encourage engagement, deepen Oxfam’s value proposition and inspire philanthropic giving.

Reporting to the Manager, Communications, they will contribute to the organization’s broader communications goals as outlined in the Communications Strategy. They will help steward the Oxfam brand in Canada and contribute to the development of effective communications products that engages our key stakeholders. Strong storytelling, design, digital and editing skills are principal requirements of this role.

**MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES**: (This is not an exhaustive list of duties to be performed)

**Strategy, Planning and Execution**:

- Leads development and execution of annual content strategy, in line with Oxfam Canada’s communications strategy and public engagement strategy
- Leads conceptualization and execution of content collection strategy and maintains digital asset management system
- Leads conceptualization and production of creative assets and content (i.e. blogs and stories, campaign branding, photo essays, video production, multi-media/interactive stories)
- Participates in planning sessions with cross-department stakeholders to develop marketing, communications, outreach and advocacy plans and products
- Liaises with other teams, working groups and units within Oxfam Canada, ensuring communication, engagement and support is provided as required
- Promotes and advocates for an integrated, multi-channel marketing communications approach across the organization
- Contributes to strategies that increase Oxfam’s supporter base
- Provides support to revenue generating activities
- Leads special projects as required
- Stewards Oxfam’s brand

**Communications Materials Production**:

- Produces blogs and stories and annual report
- Creates social media creative assets
- Develops content to showcase Oxfam Canada’s anti-racism, JEDI and decolonization work
- Develops graphics, infographs, brochures and other materials as needed, consistent with the Oxfam brand and leveraging the global toolkit
- Creates and/or edits videos and other multi-media products
- Serves as social media spokesperson for Oxfam Canada
- Provides digital support in website maintenance and social media
- Provides editing support by reviewing materials prepared by others, upon request
- Stays abreast of current trends and best practices in public communications and marketing

**Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning**:

- Monitors the external environment and contributes to the evaluation of outcomes of communications and outreach activities, providing recommendations and refining plans and strategies as required
- Ensures tracking, evaluation and reporting on Oxfam Canada’s marketing and communications programs
- Contributes to the development and monitoring of marketing and communications budgets
- Where relevant, manages communications and marketing consultants and contracts

**REQUIRED EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & COMPETENCIES**:

- University degree in communicati