WorkSafeBC
Job title:
Senior Stakeholder & Community Relations Specialist
Company
WorkSafeBC
Job description
Overview
We have two exciting opportunities for Senior Stakeholder & Community Relations Specialists to join our Stakeholder, Community, and Indigenous Relations team.
You’ll provide recommendations and advice to enterprise leadership relating to WorkSafeBC’s stakeholder relationships, including how to engage with key stakeholders, such as employer and industry associations, other regulatory bodies, labour unions, initiatives, and projects.
This role will be instrumental in supporting the implementation of a stakeholder and community relations strategy that is balanced and strategic.
How you’ll make a difference: You’ll build understanding and trust that helps WorkSafeBC serve people across B.C.
Where you’ll work
At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines the convenience of working remotely with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.
In these roles, you’ll work primarily from your B.C. home and occasionally in your assigned local office. Note: one role will be located in the Lower Mainland and one role will be located on Vancouver Island.
What you’ll do
- Lead key stakeholder engagement projects and initiatives to ensure alignment between WorkSafeBC’s strategic priorities and stakeholder needs
- Analyze and provide recommendations and advice to the leadership teams across the organization on a wide variety of stakeholder concerns and business needs, and ensure these recommendations are timely, sound, sensitive to the current political climate, and mitigate potential concerns or issues
- Help inform WorkSafeBC strategy, policy, and operational decisions
Is this a good fit for you?
We’re looking for someone who can:
- Influence decision-making through accurate, timely, thoughtful written and verbal communication with all internal and external stakeholders
- Assist in the management and implementation of stakeholder outreach initiatives, including developing engagement strategies, timelines, drafting communications, and tracking responses for follow-up
- Provide guidance and advice to team members at all levels of the organization to ensure stakeholder engagements align to WorkSafeBC’s experience framework
- Develop a deep understanding of WorkSafeBC and stakeholder business and political needs, perspectives, and pressures through consistent engagement activities.
- Manage and implement specific projects and initiatives by developing project/program plans, critically thinking through problems to develop opportunities
Your background and experience
- A university degree in business, political science, communications, public relations, or other relevant discipline.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in the stakeholder or public relations field
- This role may require occasional travel to events across the province
We’ll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:
- Consent to a criminal record check
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada
Who we are
At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.
What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?
It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.
Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.
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Our benefits
As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:
- Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
- 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increase based on years of service
- Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
- Optional leave arrangements
- Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)
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Salary: $90,211 – $109,607/annually
Want to apply?
- Applications are welcomed immediately; however must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
- Please note that we will start assessments before the closing date.
We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email when you submit your application.
Expected salary
$90211 – 109607 per year
Location
Canada
Job date
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 06:26:12 GMT
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