Position Type: Full-time
Compensation: Commensurate with experience, plus benefits

About the Centre for Social Innovation

The Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) is a collaborative workspace, community and social impact platform for people who are changing the world. Established in Toronto in 2004, CSI now operates 162,000 sq ft of space across four sites in Toronto and one in New York City. We support almost 1000 nonprofits and social mission organizations tackling a range of social, environmental and economic challenges and our mission is to catalyze social innovation by accelerating the success of our members while fueling a broader movement for social change.

Our ambitions are, um, ambitious!  We are determined to change the world and we have a plan, but we need you to help make it happen!  We have a vision to scale our platform to serve other shared spaces and to remove barriers, reduce friction and accelerate outcomes & connections for 1000’s of social mission groups each day.

Our founding values are collaboration, entrepreneurship and systems change and they are embodied in everything we do. We have the passion and drive of a young tech start-up but remain rooted in the social movements of the 60’s and 70’s. We are wildly optimistic while being deeply pragmatic. We are looking for someone who is recklessly committed to leveraging their enormous skills, smarts and emotional intelligence to having an impact - not just treating the symptoms, but rather getting at the root causes and actually shifting the game.  We are making social change and having fun doing it!

About CSI’s Director of Communications and Campaigns

CSI is seeking a genius strategist who embraces the cleverness of public relations, the power of persuasion and the passion of entrepreneurship. Oh yeah, and with a giant conscience. We need you to be a visionary pragmatist (kind of like us) who embodies the balance between mastery, strategy & scrappiness.

Our Director of Communications will join the brilliant (if we do say so ourselves) senior management team that leads the network of spaces, programs and our ambitions. You will balance strategy with implementation. It’s a small (but mighty!) team and we’ll need you to wear a lot of hats be it writing copy that captures our unique voice to designing and coordinating our content strategy. You will be responsible for CSI’s external communications efforts including marketing, public relations, communications, campaigns, etc. with the goal of positioning CSI globally, nationally and however it makes sense.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Create and execute our global communications strategy which includes, but may not be limited to branding, public relations, press releases, advertising, collateral materials, social media, sponsored events, market research and website design.
• Define and direct CSI marketing programs designed to build awareness, acquire and/or retain CSI members/partners and work in collaboration with our CSI TO team on local marketing efforts.
• Manage our community communications channels like Mailchimp, Mailman, Wufoo, social media, etc.  
• Develop and track metrics and success criteria
• Ownership of our website (we’re launching a new one in September!)
• Develop and lead our content strategy across all platforms (i.e. website, social media and our in house magazine, The Collider)
• Work with the media to scale our stories far and wide
• Ensure brand consistency across all platforms
• Develop and lead a long-term communications strategy that will support our organizational goals and programming
• Work with fundraising & program teams to architect and drive our fundraising campaigns  
• Lead and mentor your team members; identify training and development needs, set employe goals and objectives; manage performances.
• Manage relationships with our communications vendors including designers, developers, photographers, printers, cinematographers, etc.

Desired requirements for this position include:

• Alignment with our values (see here)
• Minimum 5 years experience in the field of communications
• Minimum 3 years experience with management
• Strong organizational, project management, time management capabilities and attention to detail
• Superior written, copywriting and oral communication, research and presentation skills.

We strongly support applications from diverse backgrounds and communities.

Submit your cover letter and resume as one pdf to HR at socialinnovation.ca

Deadline for submission is August 8th at 2:00 pm.

SOURCE: The Centre for Social Innovation