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About the Role

You will support communications mandates from planning through execution, helping teams bring client work to life while building a strong foundation in client service. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who wants broad agency exposure, enjoys practical execution, and is motivated to learn by doing.

Responsibilities

• Support the day-to-day delivery of integrated communications programs across media relations, stakeholder engagement, public affairs, digital, social, and corporate reputation channels.
• Develop and contribute to high-quality communications materials, including media pitches, press materials, briefing notes, key messages, social media copy, newsletters, client updates, and executive-ready summaries.
• Conduct research, environmental scans, and monitoring across business, media, policy, competitor, stakeholder, and social/digital landscapes to identify insights, trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Support media relations activities, including media list development, journalist research, pitch coordination, coverage tracking, and preparation of media briefing materials.
• Use AI-enabled and digital tools responsibly to support research, content development, brainstorming, summarization, workflow efficiencies, issues tracking, reporting, and audience insights, while applying fact-checking, privacy awareness, and sound judgment.
• Prepare client-facing reports, project updates, and campaign summaries that translate data, media coverage, and engagement metrics into clear, actionable insights.
• Coordinate logistics and project management for meetings, events, stakeholder engagements, internal working sessions, and awareness campaigns, including agendas, briefing materials, vendor coordination, timelines, approvals, budgets, and status documents.
• Support campaign planning, new business proposals, team brainstorming, and cross-practice collaboration while staying current on business, AI, media, and communications trends.

Requirements

• 2-3 years of experience in public relations, communications, corporate communications, marketing, public affairs, or a related field; agency experience is an asset.
• Post-secondary education in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, business, political science, or a related discipline.
• Strong writing and editing skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Familiarity with social media platforms, media monitoring tools, and digital communications channels.
• Interest in corporate communications, reputation management, media relations, public affairs, business issues, and integrated campaigns across sectors.
• Comfort using AI-enabled tools, such as ChatGPT, to support research, writing, summarization, and workflow efficiency, with appropriate fact-checking and judgment.

Skills

• Writing
• Editing
• Attention to detail
• Social media platforms
• Media monitoring tools
• Digital communications channels
• AI-enabled tools
• Research
• Content development
• Summarization
• Workflow efficiency
• Fact-checking
• Judgment
• Organization
• Managing competing priorities
• Proactive
• Resourceful
• Collaboration
• Adaptability
• Learning

Location

• Toronto, Ontario

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Associate
• Early career

Education Level

• Post-secondary education in communications, public relations, marketing, journalism, business, political science, or a related discipline

Salary/Compensations

• $50,000-$62,500 CAD

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Hybrid work environment
• Supportive, collegial office culture
• Broad exposure to client work
• Opportunities to work on high-profile mandates
• Professional development
• Coaching
• Growth opportunities

About the Company

• For 50 years, NATIONAL has worked alongside organizations as they navigate change, protect reputation, and solve the business challenges that matter most.
• In Toronto, our Corporate team supports clients across sectors and works closely with colleagues across practices to deliver integrated communications programs, from media relations and stakeholder engagement to issues management, digital, and campaign support.
• NATIONAL Public Relations provides creative communications solutions that move people in thought and actions.
• We bring together a team of 300 seasoned professionals, who are committed to helping organizations of all sizes and in all sectors understand their challenges and opportunities and solve the issues they are facing.
• For 47 years, NATIONAL has been at the center of issues and industries that matter, leading change for today and tomorrow.
• NATIONAL is Canada’s leading public relations firm, with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Saint John, Halifax and St. John’s.
• Its network includes Time & Space, a leader in media strategy, data analysis, planning and execution.
• NATIONAL Public Relations is an AVENIR GLOBAL company, the largest Canadian-owned global communications firm, ranked among the 25 largest in the world with offices in 23 locations across Canada, the U.S., Europe and the Middle East.

Equal Opportunity

• NATIONAL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Should you require any accommodation during the selection process, please inform us.