Manager, Visual Communications
COMPETITION NUMBER: 1180
CLOSING DATE: APRIL 10, 2025 @11:59PM MST
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS, ENROLMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
Join our dynamic team as Manager of Visual Communications! Reporting to the Director of Communications, the Manager of Visual Communications is our go-to on strategic creative services, ensuring our audiences know our college as we do — a place that transforms lives for the better. The Manager provides leadership to a professional team that works to bring the NorQuest brand to life and capture the essence of what sets the college apart. Through engaging storytelling, digital and print design, and proactive video and multimedia, the successful candidate will help highlight the many ways in which the college impacts our learners, communities, and province.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
- Provide leadership and strategic direction to the team and empower them in their work.
- Promote and foster a creative and inclusive work environment that encourages employees to work to their highest potential.
- Model NorQuest’s values (the Qs) and live NorQuest’s purpose (being a difference maker).
- Focus on people development by ensuring all employees have clear role expectations, a development plan, and set annual performance goals with meaningful career development conversations.
- Promote and enact a client-centric engagement model, positioning the team as trusted advisors to other areas of the college.
- Foster effective collaboration between Marketing and Communications in support of divisional and college business plans.
- Help shape and deliver an omni-channel strategy for internal communications that enables better access to information and enhances employee experience.
- Work collaboratively with student-facing areas of the college to create alignment and consistency in communications across the student lifecycle.
- Ensure policies and procedures are implemented and monitored, and that decisions and processes are coordinated and communicated within the team.
- Contribute to the development and oversight of the annual business plan, budget planning and forecasting, and quarterly reporting for the Communications division.
- Work closely with other leaders to identify creative needs in support of college strategic and operational plans.
WHAT YOU BRING:
- A degree in a related field is required.
- Five+ years in progressively senior roles.
- Experience managing creative services teams within complex organizations.
- Post-secondary experience considered an asset.
- Experience developing integrated visual communications strategies, aligned to organizational business goals and with a focus on impact and outcomes.
- Excellent understanding of various communications channels, platforms, and technologies.
- Excellent understanding of branding, copywriting, graphic design, layout, and publishing, video and multimedia.
WHAT MAKES YOU A DIFFERENCE MAKER
As a difference maker you bring:
- Demonstrated success as a dynamic leader and mentor.
- A collaborative management style and developing strong relationships with internal and external partners.
- Demonstrated strength in thinking strategically, delivering results, handling complexities, and dealing with ambiguities.
- Creative and innovative problem-solver with a commitment to quality, customer service and accountability.
- Proven leadership; demonstrated experience working with different levels of leadership to engage and influence positive outcomes.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills.
- Cultural sensitivity and excellent interpersonal and diplomacy skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines and multiple demands, and effectively prioritize.
- High degree of professionalism and ability to demonstrate exceptional judgement and decision-making autonomy.
SALARY: $89,708 - $112,166 reflective upon what you bring - AKA your education and experience. This is a full-time permanent position with immediate access to our great pension and benefit programs.
We offer flexible work options. We strive for balance between a flexible work environment, connectedness to the campus community, and ensuring NorQuesters are set up to succeed in their roles and responsibilities.
Additional Information: Pre-Employment Checks will be completed to assess the candidate’s suitability for a role. These checks may include (but are not limited to): references, criminal record check, academic verification, etc.
For applicants who have completed post-secondary studies from outside of Canada, it is recommended they obtain an assessment of their credentials from a recognized Canadian Credential Evaluator, such as:
- International Qualifications Assessment Service https://www.alberta.ca/international-qualifications-assessment
- World Education Services https://www.wes.org/ca/
We encourage applicants to include the assessment certificate as part of their application.
This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across NorQuest College, at the same or lower classification level.
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: We're on a journey to become an inclusive, anti-racist, and decolonized organization. NorQuesters are trailblazers – we are curious, creative, and innovative - our lived experiences are honoured, creating accessibility and a sense of belonging for everyone.
NorQuest 2030 We Are Who We Include shares our strength and difference comes from who is included, and along with our students we are learning and growing to listen deeply and say what we feel.
NorQuest College is committed to being an employer of choice for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people by recognizing, respecting, and supporting Indigenous people's self-determination through the institution’s work in decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenization.
Accessibility: At NorQuest, we are who we include. We strive to provide access and accommodation throughout the recruitment, application, and selection process. We want to create opportunities for you to confidently be your authentic self. If you would like an accommodation at any stage of the process, please reach out to Careers@norquest.ca.
Apply to Become a NorQuester: If this opportunity delights you and your expertise will shine in this role, we invite you to apply for this position online by uploading your resume and cover letter combined as one document.
PSST: Only candidates shortlisted for an interview will be contacted and we’ll make sure to do this within 28 days of the closing date.