Communications Advisor

For over 75 years, Medavie Blue Cross has been a leading health and wellness partner for individuals, employers and governments across Canada. As a not-for-profit organization, we proudly invest in communities to help address some of Canada’s most pressing health care challenges. We are one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures, one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Life & Health Insurer of the Year for 2021 and an Imagine Canada Caring Company. 
 
Our 2,400 professionals work across six provinces, united by our shared values of being caring, accountable, responsible, innovative and community-minded. We’re committed to ensuring our employees thrive in our award-winning, collaborative culture focused on ensuring health, wellness, and personal and professional growth through a variety of programs and support across our organization.
 
Together with Medavie Health Services, we are part of Medavie — a national health solutions partner with over 7,700 employees. Our mission is to improve the wellbeing of Canadians.
Job Title:
Communications Advisor
Department:
Talent and Communications
Competition:
86705
Internal/External:
Both
Employment Type:
Full Time Permanent
Location:
NS, NB, QC, ON Remote
Salary:
Competitive Compensation
Reports To:
Manager, Corporate Communications
 
 
Reporting to the Manager, Corporate Communications, and as a member of the corporate communications team, this role will add strategic value across all of Medavie’s operating companies sharing timely, transparent, value-add information regularly. The Communications Advisor, External Relations, contributes to providing meaningful updates to managers and team members, assessing the environment, curating scans, and monitoring stakeholder trends and media.
This role has the ability to grow within Medavie under the support of a great team. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of communications monitoring channels and social media best practices.
Health and dental benefits begin on day one when joining the organization and Medavie supports a flexible work environment, providing both hybrid and work in office set-ups. Both an annual health and medical spending account are also included.
 
Main Responsibilities
-Development and ownership of a strategic plan and approach to monitor media channels, news, the environment in Atlantic Canada and across the country.
-Manage internal cascade for daily media monitoring reports.
-Responsible for the corporate media monitoring systems.
-Manage escalating urgent or relevant news to the manager as required.   
-Identify and maintain a big picture view of the environment in which the organization operates, sharing trends related to health, business and government.
-Monitor social media channels for engagement and draft responses for review.
-Develop relationships internally across multiple departments and business partners.
-Liaise with team members responsible for blog posts, social media and other internally focused content streams.
-Support writing meaningful and engaging content to support external and brand teams where required.
-Able to work with team members in a hybrid of work from home (WFH) and work from office (WFO) environments across multiple geographic locations.
-Coordinate and support virtual internal leadership meetings, stakeholder event attendance and group sessions.
-Support contract tracking and subscription lists.
-Support other requirements for external communications needs where required.
Required Qualifications
-Post-secondary education in Communications, Public Relations or other related field and up to two years of related experience.
-Exceptional written communication skills, including editing, proofreading and attention to detail.
-A strong understanding of strategic approaches and influences in the health sector.
-An interest in current and government affairs.
-A storyteller with an ability to take complex information and distill into digestible, engaging pieces.
-Strong editing skills including (but not limited to): news releases, web content, email, speaking remarks and scripts for events, social media updates and articles, etc.
-Up-to-date understanding of innovations in social media channels and communications practices, particularly new platforms/digital channels.
-Experience in working in a large, corporate environment is considered an asset.
-Ability to recognize and escalate issues as they arise to the manager.
-Ability to work with confidential and sensitive subjects/issues in a professional manner.
-Solid time management skills, with the ability to balance multiple priorities and produce materials to meet tight deadlines.
Other Skills
-Team player with a strong focus on supporting colleagues, trying new approaches and delivering results.
-Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
-A self-starter and problem-solver who works independently and as part of a geographically dispersed, virtual team.
-Understanding of best practices to communicate across a diverse, remote employee-base.
-Advanced skills with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Webex as well as social media platforms.
-Flexible to work outside of normal hours as required.
Language Skills
-Bilingualism (French and English) is considered an asset, but not required, for this position.
 
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 
Medavie Blue Cross strives to foster a culture where everyone is enabled to achieve their full potential - a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) where we live our values every day in the way we treat each other, our members and the communities we serve. Accessibility is a top priority.
For applicants with disabilities, we provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Medavie Blue Cross Human Resources staff of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation. All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
We would like to thank all candidates for expressing interest. Please note only those selected for interviews will be contacted.