Follow us on LinkedIn Job Type: Employee Duration in Months (for fixed-term jobs): N/A Job Family: Business Strategy and Planning # of Open Positions: 1 Faculty/Service - Department: Telfer School of Management Campus: Desmarais Hall Union Affiliation: N/A Date Posted: May 01, 2025 Applications must be received BEFORE: May 26, 2025 Hours per week: 35 Salary Grade: Non-Union Grade NM3 Salary Range: $129,272.00 - $161,590.00 About the Telfer School of Management The Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa is located in the heart of Ottawa and is the proud academic home of some 4,300 students,200 faculty members, over 100 staff members, and over 30,000 alumni. At Telfer, everything we do from teaching to research, to policy advice is firmly aligned with helping Canada reach its potential. We believe that better business practice means a better Canada and that a better Canada means a better world. Position purpose: Formulates the Telfer School of Management’s long-term business plan by framing clear strategic choices, soliciting the perspectives of stakeholders, driving to alignment, and articulating a comprehensive corporate business strategy. Promotes and enhances the public profile of the University’s Telfer School of Management by providing strategic direction and leadership for: internal and external communications & marketing; development of strategic initiatives and partnerships; and advisory support to senior executives. Provides leadership, expertise, strategic and tactical advice to senior executives. Responsible for the development and implementation of innovative communications and marketing strategies and major events with the objective of raising the profile of uOttawa’s Telfer School of Management internally and externally on a local, national, and international scale. Leads a team of professionals involved in multiple marketing and communications projects and activities. Leads the prioritization of work assignments and manages the efforts of team members. Recruits, mentors, trains, develops, manages, and evaluates staff ensuring capable and engaged resources. In this role, you will: Strategic Direction: Leads the development of strategic direction for the faculty activities and research by setting priorities, processes, defining audiences, adopting various methods and establishing key performance indicators. Partnership Management: With the objective to identify new partnerships and high-impact initiatives, and enhance communications/marketing activities, provides strategic communications planning and expertise to clients (i.e., professors, researchers, students, internal partners) and key stakeholders (i.e., industry leaders). Is responsible for overall business development including identifying gaps in the faculty priorities and portfolios leading to the identification and negotiation of strategic partnerships. Expert Advice: Develops strategic ideas and insights that reflect relevant market conditions and challenges and knits these together into a coherent strategy for the faculty. Manages and monitors the faculty’s strategic planning process and drives implementation and execution of the strategy for the faculty. Provides expert advice on best practices and resources that improve recruitment, reach and engagement with internal and external audiences. Stakeholder Engagement: Creates and articulates long-term project-specific communication plans targeted for internal dissemination and buy-in. Directs the communications efforts of the Dean and Vice-Deans, the broader uOttawa by developing compelling key corporate messaging about the Faculty’s priorities to key target audiences, influencing stakeholder engagement. Market Analysis: Responsible to anticipate the future and mobilize the faculty to meet its challenges. Senses and monitors trends and events in higher education and related industries. Planning: Leads the planning and management of faculty events, such as partnership announcements, research conferences & symposia, VIP conferences, etc., to enhance the visibility of the Telfer School of Management. Leads special projects including various analysis that support the faculty’s strategic aim and priorities. Client Outreach: Maintains direct ties with uOttawa corporate communications, external clients, including academic and community leaders, elected officials, media, granting agencies and research organizations in order to promote the Faculty’s activities within the broader community and to identify potential outreach and collaboration opportunities. Budget Management: Elaborates, manages and controls the communications and marketing budget to ensure the optimal use of resources in order to meet the Faculty’s priorities and goals efficiently. Human Resources Management: Designs, establishes and maintains an organizational structure and staffing level to effectively accomplish the Faculty's goals and objectives. Oversees recruitment, training, supervision and evaluation of Communications and Marketing staff. External Liaison: Hires, manages and oversees the work of external suppliers, such as freelance writers, translators, photographers, videographers, and designers, for the production of printed and audiovisual material, among other communications tools. What you will bring: Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Ten (10) years of leadership and management experience in communications and marketing, including significant progressive experience of providing strategic communications advice to senior executives. Five (5) years of human, financial, resource and project management as well as demonstrated ability to resolve conflict successfully. Extensive experience in the development and implementation of strategic communications and marketing plans, including digital and print strategies, media relations, advertising, and events management. Extensive experience leading strategic initiatives in particular demonstrated ability to develop strategic, metrics-based marketing and recruitment planning and execution. Proven abilities in building partnerships and/or collaborative working relationships with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders. Proven ability to socialize an organization’s strategy with executives and key stakeholders in order to build consensus on key issues. Excellent ability to co-ordinate a variety of tasks under pressure, managing priorities, meeting strict deadlines and following up on deliverables. Demonstrated initiative, autonomy and excellent leadership skills to foster commitment and cooperation within the communications team. Sound judgment, initiative, tact and diplomacy, as well as a high level of discretion in handling confidential information. Ability to quickly assimilate complex information and to translate this information into plain language for a variety of audiences. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills in English and French (written and verbal). Strong skills in leading, motivating and coaching professional communications teams. #Li-MP1 Key Competencies at uOttawa: Here are the required competencies for all or our employees at uOttawa: Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realize an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities. Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible. Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them. Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team. The University of Ottawa embraces diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are passionate about our people and committed to employment equity. We foster a culture of respect, teamwork and inclusion, where collaboration, innovation, and creativity fuel our quest for research and teaching excellence. While all qualified persons are invited to apply, we welcome applications from qualified Indigenous persons, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, women and LGBTQIA2S+ persons. The University is committed to creating and maintaining an accessible, barrier-free work environment. The University is also committed to working with applicants with disabilities requesting accommodation during the recruitment, assessment and selection processes. Applicants with disabilities may contact hrtalentmanagement@uottawa.ca to communicate the accommodation need. 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