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About the Role
Leads a team to build relationships of mutual understanding with leaders, influencers, and organizations to support the Area Presidency and Church leaders across the area. This involves defining communication strategies, strengthening the Church's reputation, promoting religious freedom, and organizing events to connect leaders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the team that develops the outreach portion of the communication strategy to build, maintain, and strengthen relationships with government, interfaith, and community leaders.
- Establish relationships between key opinion leaders and Church leaders aligned with organizational priorities.
- Develop, maintain, and prioritize a list of key contacts for relationship building.
- Oversee the training of communication councils to build, maintain, and record outreach efforts.
- Assure necessary permissions are received from Church headquarters for outreach visits.
- Develop efforts to monitor and report on religious freedom and legislative matters.
- Identify key opinion leaders for symposia and propose them to the Area Presidency.
- Organize events with other organizations to strengthen key relationships.
- Inform leaders and influencers on relevant key issues.
- Coordinate government relations and communication initiatives within the area.
- Coordinate with international government relations teams and global area offices.
- Provide speaking points for outreach visits to opinion leaders and diplomatic corps.
- Ensure all diplomatic outreach is captured in the Connect customer relations database.
- Oversee the identification and development of relationships with key media members.
- Develop a prioritized list of key national and local journalists.
- Train communication councils on working with the media.
- Provide spokesperson training and develop relevant speaking points.
- Ensure messaging alignment on global issues with Church headquarters.
- Ensure outreach interactions are recorded in the Connect customer relations database.
- Travel monthly to the Canada Area Office, travel to Ottawa as needed, and travel to Church Headquarters in Salt Lake City Utah, USA as needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a communication-related field or equivalent experience.
- Master's degree preferred.
- At least 7+ years of experience.
- Proven track record of effective people management with at least two years' experience.
- Experience in developing, designing, and executing strategic outreach plans.
- Ability to understand critical issues such as religious freedom and legislative matters.
- Strong understanding of the Canadian political system and organizations.
- Strong people skills and experience in building relationships with key opinion leaders.
- Extensive experience with a wide variety of communication channels.
- Strong understanding of public relations and relationship building.
- Skilled at utilizing research methods and strategies to address practical problems.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas and processes straightforwardly.
- Ability to build and develop a team of relationship staff.
- Excellent writing and editing skills in English.
- Ability to think critically and solve problems.
- Ability to function in a team setting and collaborate.
- Competency in Microsoft Office suite and CRM tools like Salesforce.
- Must be legally authorized to work in Canada without sponsorship.
- Must be able to reside in the greater Toronto, Canada region.
Skills
- Bilingual English and French capabilities
- French language capability
Location
- Etobicoke, ON, Canada
- Ottawa, Canada
- Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years of experience
- 2+ years of people management experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in communication-related field or equivalent
- Master's degree preferred
About the Company
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints