Job Profile

AAPS Salaried
- Information Services, Level A

Job Title

Communications Specialist

Job Category

M&P;
- AAPS

Job Family Group

Staff
- Non Union

Department

Academy of Translational Medicine
- Leadership | Faculty of Medicine

Compensation Range

$6,143.67
- $8,830.25 CAD Monthly
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Job End Date

December 31, 2027

Posting End Date

November 24, 2026

This is a one-year term position.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Job Summary

The Communications Specialist enhances the awareness and positioning of the Academy of Translation Medicine (ATM) by leading the development of a communications and engagement strategy. This role further leads the planning, development, and execution of communication and engagement initiatives and events to the UBC and wider translational medicine and regulatory science communities. This role leads awareness-building and engagement initiatives that further the ATM’s mandate through communication campaigns and community engagement initiatives.



They will advance the ATM’s strategic goals through the implementation and delivery of communications materials highlighting the successes of ATM, and the services/supports provided, within the university and beyond on a national and global scale. They will engage with a variety of key stakeholder groups such as faculty, staff, students, alumni, industry, and other innovation groups relevant to the work of the ATM. They lead the planning, project management and reporting of communications strategies for the ATM (including consistent branding across all ATM products, website content, digital channels, print materials, promotions/media/graphics and more) to support the ATM’s growth and mission. They will also be heavily involved in communicating the success of the Regulatory Science Lab (RSL) via different communication channels. They will be critical to furthering ATM’s reputation as a translational medicine and regulatory science leader, attracting key funders and supporters around the world. They are a talented creative, with a passion for supporting the communication of research and science, and who can participate and contribute to an ambitious team with many moving parts.



They will work closely with ATM staff to advance the objectives and goals of the ATM through communication and event efforts and will ensure communication efforts are cohesive and consistent with the overall UBC and ATM brand.

Organizational Status

The University of British Columbia is a global centre for research and teaching, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. Since 1915, UBC’s entrepreneurial spirit has embraced innovation and challenged the status quo. UBC encourages its students, staff and faculty to challenge convention, lead discovery and explore new ways of learning. At UBC, bold thinking is given a place to develop into ideas that can change the world. Ranked among the world’s top medical schools with the fifth-largest MD enrollment in North America, the UBC Faculty of Medicine is a leader in both the science and the practice of medicine, making remarkable discoveries, and helping to create the pathways to better health for our communities at home and around the world. UBC Faculty of Medicine Vision: To Transform Health for Everyone The Faculty of Medicine
- comprised of approximately 2,700 administrative support, technical/research and management and professional staff, as well as approximately 600 full-time academic and over 10,000 clinical faculty members
- is composed of 19 academic basic science and/or clinical departments, 3 schools, and 26 research centres and institutes. Together with its University and Health Authority partners, the Faculty delivers cutting-edge programs and conducts research in the areas of health and life sciences. Faculty, staff and trainees are located at university campuses, clinical academic campuses in hospital settings and other regionally based centres across the province. The UBC Vancouver Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy

📌 Communications Specialist (Vancouver)
🏢 The University of British Columbia
📍 Vancouver