Communications Coordinator

**Position**:Communications Coordinator

**Location**:Conestoga College - Various Campuses

**Reporting to**:Marketing & Communications Manager

**Time Requirement**:35 hours per week (some evenings and weekends may be required)

**Pay Band (to start)**: $44,250 to $52,125

**Company Overview**

Conestoga Students Incorporated (“CSI”) was founded in 1973 and is the official student association representing more than 21,000 students at all Conestoga College campuses. All full-time fee-paying students are the owners and customers of CSI, and we are dedicated to serving the students to the best of our ability.

Working on CSI’s full-time team would give you access to the following benefits and perks:

- Competitive salary based on job market data
- Bonuses
- Health & dental benefits
- RRSP contribution plan
- Tuition reimbursement for part-time studies
- Reimbursement for work-related travel expenses
- Paid time off to observe culturally significant events
- Flexible work hours and remote work (up to 50% of work week)

**Position Overview**

The Communications Coordinator is responsible for the supervision and outputs of all staff on the Communications and Content team, leading external communications, press releases, and speeches given by executives/employees, as well as owning all communication aspects of web, social media presence, and content. Their expertise allows them to collaborate and co-develop marketing and communication plans, marketing goals, and promotional activities. The Communications Coordinator ensures the accuracy of our brand and company with consistent branding and corporate identity across all marketing and communication platforms.

The Communications Coordinator may also provide supervision and direction to other staff in the coordination of marketing and communications functions and processes. In carrying out supervisory responsibilities, the Communications Coordinator must cultivate and maintain a diverse and inclusive environment in which the variety of participants’ backgrounds, experiences, places of origin, racial/ethnic identities, sexual identities, gender, ages, and more are heard, respected, and valued by everyone.

This position reports directly to the Marketing & Communications Manager. In carrying out the duties of this position, a great deal of responsibility is exercised with final overview by the Marketing & Communications Manager. It is also important that the Communications Coordinator works extremely closely with the Marketing & Communications Manager to ensure that they are up to date on the basic overall operations of CSI’s marketing and communications functions. In all activities, it is crucial that the Communications Coordinator recognizes that service to employees and students is a top priority.

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Supervision of Staff
- Day-to-day management of part-time and co-op marketing and communications staff
- Create and conduct job-specific training for all new and current part-time and co-op staff who report to the Communications Coordinator, ensuring all legislated training and other necessary training is completed before working first shift on the job
- Create and monitor weekly work schedules for the part-time and co-op staff who report to the Communications Coordinator
- Edit and approve hours of work, submitting bi-weekly to the Human Resources department.
- Ensure all documentation is accurate and submitted to Human Resources department
- Plan and schedule regular staff meetings in conjunction with other department supervisors

Day to Day Duties
- Develop all external communications - press releases, speeches given by executives/employees, company presentations, etc.
- Final editing & proofreading of all external communications/marketing - press releases, speeches given by executives/employees, company presentation, training programs, paper media, social media, website, etc.
- Ownership of all social media and website content; providing final edits, approvals, and postings for all platforms. (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, website, web forms, influencer program, etc.)
- Develop strategies to curate the Conestoga Student Inc. membership through community-building initiatives.
- Monitor CSI social media for accuracy related to services, representation, activities and updates
- Respond to student comments or inquiries on social media
- Direct the classroom presentations program
- Assist in ensuring the marketing and events goals & targets are met as outlined in the annual CSI marketing & communications plan
- Collaborating with Events Coordinator and the Marketing & Communications Manager to develop targeted marketing campaigns
- Annual revision of college student guides and documents ensuring CSI accurately represented
- Ownership of the social media contest rewards, prizing, gift bags, etc.
- Ensure all communication distributed to students and college are compliant with AODA
- Ensure sold sponsorship space is accurately incl