Job Description

Under the direction of the Area Presidency and the Area Communication & Publishing Director, the Manager of Public Relations leads a team that builds relationships of mutual understanding with leaders, influencers, and organizations to help the Area Presidency and Church leaders across the area. The manager accomplishes this by:

- Defining the relationship building portion of the communication strategy. It will include a plan to establish relationships with people, communities, and organizations to help achieve area priorities and the mission of the Church
- Establishing and strengthening the reputation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and promoting religious freedom
- Creating activities and events focused on connecting Church leaders across the area with key opinion leaders to lift and bless this area of the world
- Training and supporting volunteer communication councils in their efforts

Job Description

Under the direction of the Area Presidency and the Area Communication & Publishing Director, the Manager of Public Relations leads a team that builds relationships of mutual understanding with leaders, influencers, and organizations to help the Area Presidency and Church leaders across the area. The manager accomplishes this by:

- Defining the relationship building portion of the communication strategy. It will include a plan to establish relationships with people, communities, and organizations to help achieve area priorities and the mission of the Church
- Establishing and strengthening the reputation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and promoting religious freedom




- Creating activities and events focused on connecting Church leaders across the area with key opinion leaders to lift and bless this area of the world
- Training and supporting volunteer communication councils in their efforts

Responsibilities

Lead the team that develops the outreach portion of the communication strategy that will build, maintain, and strengthen critical relationships with government, interfaith, and community leaders and their staff at national and local levels:

- Establish relationships between key opinion leaders and Church leaders that align with the priorities of the First Presidency and the Area Presidency (such as strengthening families and youth or protecting religious freedom).
- Develop, maintain, and prioritize a list of key contacts across the area with whom the Church should seek to build and maintain relationships of mutual understanding.
- Oversee the training of national and local communication councils to build, maintain, record outreach efforts, and provide ongoing support to communication volunteers.
- Assure that the necessary permissions to visit with heads of state are received from Church headquarters well in advance of outreach visits.
- Develop the effort to monitor and report key issues related to religious freedom or other legislative matters across the area. This should be done in close collaboration with the Area Legal Counsel, Director for Temporal Affairs,



and partners such as the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University:
- Identify key opinion leaders for the annual International Law and Religion Symposium or regional religious freedom symposia together with the Area Legal Counsel to propose to the Area Presidency.
- Organize religious freedom or other relevant events together with other organizations to build and continuously strengthen key relationships.
- Inform leaders and influencers on relevant key issues.

- Coordinate government relations and communication initiatives in the area:

- Coordinate closely with the international government relations team in Salt Lake City and the Church hosting team, who often host visitors from the Area.
- Work closely with the international government relations offices in Washington D.C., Current York, Geneva, and Brussels and all global area offices.
- Provide relevant speaking points for outreach visits to opinion leaders and members of the diplomatic corps from the Area, wherever in the world these visits may occur.
- Assure all diplomatic outreach is captured in the Connect customer relations database.

- Oversee the effort to identify and develop relationships with key members of the media across the area to encourage the sharing of Church messages, community involvement, and inspiring actions of Latter-day Saints:

- Develop a prioritized list of key national journalists and help communication councils do the same at the local level.
- Help train communication councils on working with the media.
- Provide spokesperson training to councils and Church leaders and develop relevant speaking points that ali

📌 Manager, Area Public Relations (Toronto)
🏢 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
📍 Toronto