Location: Anywhere in Canada
This role is an opportunity to have a major impact in shaping climate and energy policy in Canada.
As our Communications Manager, you’ll help Clean Prosperity spread the word about effective pathways to achieving Canada’s climate targets.
Clean Prosperity is a Canadian climate policy organization that advocates for pragmatic solutions to reduce emissions and grow the economy.
We’ve made meaningful contributions to Canadian climate policy. The Communications Manager will play an important role in expanding our reach and influence.
We are passionate about what we do, and seek the same in a Communications Manager. We offer a fun, flexible, inspiring, creative, and collaborative work environment.
Clean Prosperity is committed to diversity in its hiring processes. We welcome applications from members of visible minorities, First Nations, Métis, Inuit, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to help provide a diverse range of perspectives and lived experiences.
The role
You’ll be using your ingenuity, determination, and exceptional writing skills every day to help us craft the public communications that will be instrumental in achieving our policy objectives.
That includes attention-grabbing tweets, compelling op-eds in national media, dynamic presentation decks for decision-makers, and major research reports that change how people think about climate policy.
You will need to be a great storyteller who can turn technical topics into narratives that are engaging and persuasive.
This role reports to the Communications Director.
Your work will include:
- Distilling complex information into a wide range of content, from op-eds to press releases to presentation decks
- Compiling our media digest, drafting our newsletter, managing our social media, and updating our website
- Supporting our policy research, including writing and editing reports, and helping with layout and design
- Pitching Clean Prosperity’s policy messages to journalists
- Developing and managing communications strategies and plans
- Keeping our communications work organized, and coordinating external service providers
- Occasionally, support tasks like planning events, producing webinars, and drafting fundraising applications
Skills and experience needed
We encourage you to apply if you meet most, but not necessarily all, of the following criteria:
- Minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience
- Demonstrated high level of comfort with at least three of the following five fields: climate, energy, economics, business and finance, politics and government
- The ability to assimilate complicated ideas and explain them to others in an accessible, compelling way
- Excellent writing and editing skills, especially the ability to communicate clearly, succinctly, and persuasively
- Great social media skills, especially on X and LinkedIn
- Undergraduate degree or higher
- Desirable: experience designing presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides or similar
- Desirable: experience in graphic design and web content development
- Fun to work with!
Location, hours, and culture
We are a virtual team — you are welcome to work anywhere in Canada. You will have a home office budget to ensure that you have a comfortable and effective setup.
We keep standard working hours, but are much more concerned about results than about how you organize your time. We are a family-friendly organization: staff have flexibility in how they schedule their working hours.
Even though we’re virtual, you will interact regularly with the team. We hold weekly staff meetings, virtual happy hours, and two in-person staff retreats per year.
Compensation and benefits
Salary range for this position is $85,000–$100,000 per year, commensurate with experience. We also offer:
- Four weeks paid vacation annually
- Health insurance (including dental and vision)
- Home office budget
How to apply
Send an email to CommsMgr@cleanprosperity.ca with the subject “Application for Communications Manager” that includes:
- Your resume
- A cover letter that explains why you want to work with us and why you’d be a good fit
- A writing sample of no more than 1000 words that’s relevant to our work
- If you have design skills, include a portfolio of no more than five pieces of work
We will accept applications on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
We thank all applicants for their interest. We will only contact applicants who we are considering for an interview.