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About the Role

We are looking for a Communications & Design Production Specialist to support our Communications department in this one year contract opportunity. You will play a key role in advancing the school’s acquisition, retention, stewardship, and fundraising goals through the production of high-quality, timely, and strategically aligned communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of recurring communications projects across the annual calendar, including reports, campaigns, event materials and institutional documents
• Establish and enforce workback schedules, ensuring stakeholders meet content deadlines
• Prepare final deliverables to required specifications (print-ready files, optimized PDFs, digital resolution, email assets)
• Design and produce high-quality materials including annual and donor reports, fundraising collateral, event material, admissions and outreach materials
• Support website updates and content changes
• Create high quality and strategic digital communications collateral and messaging, including social media content and campaign assets
• Support communications and collateral for major school events (e.g. Open House, Awards Programs, fundraising campaigns), with onsite event support as required
• Maintain and update Mailchimp contact databases and campaign structures

Requirements

• 4–6 years of hands-on design and marketing and communications experience, preferably in an educational, design or not-for-profit environment
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects with fixed deadlines across print and digital channels, including photography and video production
• Strong familiarity with production workflows for campaigns, reports, and institutional communications
• Strong understanding of print production specifications and file preparation
• Working knowledge of content management systems (CMS) for website updates required
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to enforce deadlines
• Strong written and visual communication skills

Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere)
• Experience with Mailchimp or similar email marketing platforms an asset

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Contract
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 4-6 years

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in communications or graphic design-related field or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

• $86,700

Benefits

• Eligibility for group benefits
• Pension plan
• Participation in the University of Toronto’s Joint Membership Club
• Access to the University’s library and other amenities

About the Company

• Igniting Minds to Create Meaningful Impact in the World
• Established in 1910 by the University of Toronto, UTS continues to pursue excellence in teaching and learning through our affiliation with Canada’s top-ranked university.
• Nestled within the U of T campus, UTS is an inclusive, all-gender student population of just under 700 students in grades 7 through 12.
• Canada’s only independent school with a selection process based on a carefully considered identification of merit and potential contribution to school life along with a robust bursary program.
• UTS graduates can be found in leading university programmes worldwide and in careers that make a difference in an incredible array of impactful fields.
• A team of people who are innovative, dynamic, collaborative and progressive, in a culture that is inclusive and celebrates individuality and new ideas.

Equal Opportunity

• University of Toronto Schools is firmly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.