Web support and communications specialist Job in a University

Job Title: Web support and communications specialist
Job Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Job Ref.: J0114-0508 
Company/Employer: The University of Ottawa
Job Type: Contract
Job Reports To: Executive Director and Assistant Director, Sustainable Prosperity and Institute of the Environment
Salary (Grade: NC7) Hiring salary range; $55,828-$69,784, Salary Range Max; $76,762
About Us
The University of Ottawa aspires to employing a staff that fully represents the diversity of Canada’s population. As a result, it is committed to employment equity principles and aims to provide an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Therefore, the University encourages you to fill out the optional section that covers employment equity when you create your profile.

Job Purpose:
Performs a variety of communications tasks and responsibilities, including creating and implementing electronic communications plans and campaigns, and managing the Sustainable Prosperity (SP) and the Institute of the Environment (IE) websites. Also work closely with the Sustainable Prosperity communications manager.

Job Requirements:

• Knowledge and experience relating to website development and content management normally acquired through postsecondary education or equivalent experience. 
• Knowledge and considerable track record in designing and using social media tools and developing and implementing social media strategies
• General understanding of SP and IE research issues and topics 
• Minimum of two years’ experience in designing and managing websites and web content
• Extensive experience using computer systems and software such as Windows, word processors, spreadsheets, electronic agendas, online databases, email and the Internet

Key competencies required at the University of Ottawa:

• Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise 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.

Other competencies:

• Ability to work collaboratively with immediate colleagues as well as with administrators across the campus and external service providers
• Ability to work on a number of projects simultaneously, while delivering high-quality outcomes
• Strong judgment, tact and diplomacy
• Ability to initiate and manage projects with minimal supervision 
• Strong ability to communicate in clear, user-friendly and effective formats and styles
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 
• Ability to work with range of individuals with differing levels of technical proficiency
• Excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work under pressure with firm and critical deadlines
• Ability to meet own objectives in accordance with team objectives
• Bilingualism — English/French (spoken and written)

Note: Contract of approximately one-year. Eligibility to benefits will be determined upon hiring.

This position is excluded from all union accreditation units. All applications will be considered equally.

Schedule with an average of 35hrs/week.

CODL certificates can be considered an asset. Don’t forget to add them to your resume.

We thank all candidates for applying. We will only contact candidates selected for further consideration.

If you are invited to continue the selection process, please notify us of any particular adaptive measures you might require. Any information you send us will be handled respectfully and in complete confidence.
Remember to upload a current version of your CV into the My documents section of your career profile (please include the job ID number, i.e. J0000-0000, in the title of your document).

Deadline Date: 26/01/2014

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