Description:
Reporting to the Director, Strategy & Governance, the Communications & Grants Specialist is an integral part of CMHA-ER’s communications team. This position crafts and delivers our message to the community, promoting CMHA-ER and mental health as a cause. This role is an opportunity for the successful candidate to bring creativity to the role, reimagining our communications and granting proposals, contributing to securing funds for the organization, and promoting the cause of mental health in our community. The successful candidate will be a self-starter who can juggle multiple priorities and deadlines, work well with internal and external stakeholders, and create compelling messages and content that promote mental health for all.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
External Communications and Marketing
- Provide leadership and direction in the development, implementation and evaluation of marketing, communications, advocacy, design and production, and fund development strategies.
- Lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of communication strategies focusing on customer attraction/retention, public/media awareness, and positive government relations.
- Lead the planning and implementation of fundraising events, in consultation with the fund development team.
- Establish and foster relationships with external stakeholders to support CMHA-ER’s advocacy, marketing, communications and fund development activities and events.
- Serve as a representative for CMHA-ER, communications, marketing, and fund development related community initiatives.
- Promote CMHA-ER programs and services to key audiences including funders and other supporters, current and prospective participants and their families.
- Research, write, and execute grant applications, corporate proposals, and partnership agreements, for funding.
- Share stories and authentically present the lived experience of mental health through the people we support.
Guide public relations and media outreach.
- Engage with and provide relevant content to diverse audiences on the topic of mental health.
- Website content development, ensuring it is aligned with CMHA-ER’s brand, up to date, accurate, consistent, and engaging.
- Coordinate the development and production of key documents such as the Annual Report, and collateral material to promote CMHA-ER and its programs.
- Manage email marketing and outreach, including the list of supporters and CASL compliance.
- Craft internal and external communications including monthly newsletter.
- Working collaboratively with social media and marketing consultant on consistent basis to ensure content is aligned with CMHA-ER’s vision.
- Content development through multimedia tools, including video, audio productions, graphics (using programs like Canva) and visualizations of program data and information (or work with external contractors to produce these). In particular, content that presents the stories of people with lived experience of mental health.