Senior Communications Consultant – Defence 365 Program

Location: Carling Campus, 60 Moodie Drive, Ottawa, ON
Duration: 48 weeks
Estimated effort: 1,725 hours
Language: Bilingual (English and French), advanced oral, comprehension, and written
Security: Reliability Status

Procom is seeking a Senior Communications Consultant for a 48 week contract with our Government of Canada client. This role is for a bilingual enhanced communications skilled who is comfortable working onsite.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Help develop and implement the Program communication plan for geographically dispersed organizations going through organizational transformation
- Provide communications advice that supports communication initiatives and strategies
- Create communications and training support materials
- Develop and implement creative communication and information products, using a variety of tools, techniques, and media to convey information, ideas, and results
- Make sure the right people receive information on time
- Prepare reports in clear, professional language
- Encourage and listen to feedback, internally and externally, so communications land clearly
- Structure external communications to project an appropriate corporate image
- Protect the confidentiality of organizational and client information and data
- Identify target audiences to shape stronger messages
- Identify communications impediments and barriers




- Advise on policy and program development approaches and on internal and external communications planning options
- Teach SharePoint Online to end users
- Help maintain SharePoint and web page content

MANDATORY REQUIREMENTS

- Master of Journalism degree from a recognized Canadian university
- At least 3 years of experience within the last 5 years as a Communications Advisor in a Government of Canada environment, including:
- Developing communications plans and materials to support a Government of Canada program for a department with at least 8,000 employees
- Developing web-based communications materials that comply with Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) Canada.ca guidelines
- Conducting website ROT (Redundant, Outdated, Trivial) analysis and reporting on Government of Canada web pages
- Providing communications training and education sessions to Government of Canada end users

- Bilingual (English and French) with advanced oral, comprehension, and written proficiency

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

This employer uses both human and technology-assisted tools to support candidate screening and assessment. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

This posting is for a public sector assignment. Compensation will be determined through the competitive bidding process and will be within the approved rate structure for this assignment.

📌 Senior Communications Consultant (Ottawa)
🏢 Procom
📍 Ottawa