The Team

The Corporate Communications department promotes and protects the Norton Rose Fulbright Canada brand. The team supports employee communications and engagement, media relations and social media, working in alignment with its counterparts in Marketing & Business Development and Digital & Design. The Corporate Communications Advisor will report to the Corporate Communications Manager.

Regardless of specific role, all members of the Communications department need to understand, anticipate and address considerations for a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and work collaboratively with their colleagues across the team.

The Role

The Corporate Communications Senior Advisor primarily leads external communications with a focus on social media. It also provides support to national efforts and works closely with Communications colleagues across the country. The Corporate Communications Advisor leads strong content strategy and delivery for all of the Canadian NRF social media channels, ensuring content is relevant and valuable within all channels.

This position is a mix of content production, strategy and copywriting with little oversight and involves representing the organization, influencing senior stakeholders and audiences and deploying strategic initiatives. Developing and maintaining the social media content strategy and standards for tone and voice of our properties and channels is also crucial while establishing best practices, establishing templates, social media training for firm members, and implementing editorial calendars.

Responsibilities

• Works with Communications and members of the Marketing and Business Development Team to build content, social media strategies, execute and promote content placement and amplification campaigns
• Converts complex content into socially relevant and consumable information with a deep understanding of social media amplification channels
• Supports the Corporate Communications Manager on ad-hoc content creation, review and deployment
• Tracks social media activities and provides regular analysis
• Executes and pro-actively manages content placement and amplification through the use of editorial calendars and channel mapping
• Produces quality copy that incorporates best practices for digital use across various channels
• Analyzes and provides reporting and insights from implemented content based campaigns. Uses insights to optimize and enhance future campaigns
• Works collaboratively with the Digital & Design team to create synergy between textual and visual elements
• Develops and delivers high impact cultural, wellness, and diversity messaging
• Writes content and provides recommendations for the practice / leaders when required

Skills and qualifications

• Minimum of six years of relevant work experience in corporate communications and in a business/professional services environment
• Bachelor's degree in journalism, marketing, communications, creative writing, related field or equivalent training/experience
• Strong writer who can craft content in different tones, voices and styles
• Strong understanding of website technology, web analytics, monitoring and reporting tools, social and email marketing including SEO, SEM, and social media platforms
• Active interest and experience in social media including LinkedIn and Twitter
• Ability to work independently and the confidence to make recommendations to partners and senior leaders
• Critical thinker with strategic mindset and strong editorial and reputational judgment and issues management experience
• Acts proactively and resolves problems and to manage reputational risk
• Bilingualism an asset

Please note that Norton Rose Fulbright Canada requires all Firm members to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 prior to entering the workplace. Applicants who receive an employment offer will be required to provide proof of full vaccination upon arrival to the Firm as a condition of employment. Norton Rose Fulbright has a duty to accommodate those who are unable to get vaccinated due to religious, medical or other protected grounds. For applicants who require an accommodation, please contact canvanhrtalent@nortonrosefulbright.com to discuss further.

Norton Rose Fulbright

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm. We provide the world's preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3500 lawyers and other legal staff based in more than 50 cities across Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa.

Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; transport; technology; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our sector experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses.

Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.

Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices.

Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity is an important firm value. We are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment and to providing a workplace which is free from discrimination and harassment. This means that all job applicants, employees and partners will receive equal treatment regardless of race, colour, ethnic or national origins, sex, marital status, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

To apply, please visit the Careers page of our website at www.nortonrosefulbright.com. We thank all candidates for their application, but will be contacting only those whom we select to invite for an interview.

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP has an accommodation process in place that provides accommodations for employees with disabilities. If you are unable to apply for a position online or require any further accommodations during our recruitment process, please contact canvanhrtalent@nortonrosefulbright.com.

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