Agricorp
Team Leader, Communications
Agricorp, Guelph, ON
Agricorp is looking for a Team Leader, Communications to join the Strategic Management & Communications team.
The Role
The Team Leader, Communications, provides supervision and leadership to a group of communications professionals to ensure productive and coordinated performance as they achieve their business objectives. This includes proactive and professional leadership within the team to recommend and execute work plans, and implement programs and initiatives as directed by the Senior Manager, Corporate Communications. In this role, you will be responsible to:
Job status: Permanent
Salary: $79,981 - $94,095
Work status: Full time in office, remote and hybrid work arrangements are available
Location: Must live in Ontario to perform this role
Qualifications
Key Competencies
Background
Agricorp, an agency of the government of Ontario.
Agricorp delivers government programs. These programs help protect the livelihood of over 47,000 Ontario farmers against the many risks farm businesses face every day. Our employees are skilled professionals who respond when industry and government need us, manage public funds with great care and integrity, and deliver a quality customer experience.
Agricorp helps grow Ontario agriculture. We underwrite $7 billion in risk each year. The agency was established in 1997, and in our first 25 years we made $7.5 billion in payments to farmers when they needed it most.
Apply online
To apply for this position, please go to www.agricorp.com and select Careers. Click on Current Opportunities.
Please submit your application for this position by October 4, 2024.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted directly.
The Role
The Team Leader, Communications, provides supervision and leadership to a group of communications professionals to ensure productive and coordinated performance as they achieve their business objectives. This includes proactive and professional leadership within the team to recommend and execute work plans, and implement programs and initiatives as directed by the Senior Manager, Corporate Communications. In this role, you will be responsible to:
- Provide leadership, coaching, mentoring, training and performance reviews for team of communication specialists and consultants
- Ensure that the team uses corporate communications best practices, standards, tools and techniques for planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating projects and operational functions
- Provide advice and effective corporate communications expertise in alignment with organizational strategy with the public, government and stakeholders
- Provide tactical and operational management to deliver team work plan in line with department business plan
- Provides expertise on all aspects of the corporate communication process including research, approach, planning, writing, editing, proofreading, approvals and evaluations to ensure that all published communications are consistent with corporate positioning
- Understand, link and analyze information to understand and raise issues through the appropriate channels, identify options and making sound decisions
- Lead corporate communications on large cross-divisional teams, small department outcomes, and outputs
- Understand the public environment and government policy and processes in order to make informed recommendations
- Liaise and collaborate with other departments across Agricorp to understand their high-level business processes
- Participate in the hiring of your own team
Job status: Permanent
Salary: $79,981 - $94,095
Work status: Full time in office, remote and hybrid work arrangements are available
Location: Must live in Ontario to perform this role
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or college diploma program in a related field, such as communications, marketing or equivalent experience
- 5-7 years' experience in communications and marketing, specializing in both customer and corporate communications
- Experience in the agri-food industry or public sector an asset
- Supervisory/leadership experience (e.g., providing work direction, coaching, and providing input to selection, performance reviews and development) an asset
- Familiarity with Agricorp programs an asset
Key Competencies
- Corporate Communications - Effectively communicating corporate messages to target audiences.
- Achieving quality results - Focuses efforts on managing one's self to achieve high quality results consistent with the organization's standards and measures, while managing risk.
- Initiative - Identifies and deals with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise.
- Leading Teams - Leads and supports the performance of a team towards achieving excellent results.
- Critical Judgment, Decision Making and Problem Solving - Uses critical judgment to make decisions and solve problems involving varied levels of complexity, ambiguity and risk.
- Planning & organizing - Developing, implementing, evaluating and adjusting plans to reach goals, while ensuring the optimal use of resources.
Background
Agricorp, an agency of the government of Ontario.
Agricorp delivers government programs. These programs help protect the livelihood of over 47,000 Ontario farmers against the many risks farm businesses face every day. Our employees are skilled professionals who respond when industry and government need us, manage public funds with great care and integrity, and deliver a quality customer experience.
Agricorp helps grow Ontario agriculture. We underwrite $7 billion in risk each year. The agency was established in 1997, and in our first 25 years we made $7.5 billion in payments to farmers when they needed it most.
Apply online
To apply for this position, please go to www.agricorp.com and select Careers. Click on Current Opportunities.
Please submit your application for this position by October 4, 2024.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted directly.