Date Posted: 05/02/2025 Req ID: 42650 Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts and Science Department: Citizen Lab Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto) Position Number: Description: About us: The Faculty of Arts and Science is the heart of Canada's leading university and one of the most comprehensive and diverse academic divisions in the world. The strength of Arts and Science derives from our combined teaching and research excellence in the humanities, sciences and social sciences across 29 departments, seven colleges and 46 interdisciplinary centres, institutes and programs. We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty. The diversity of opportunities and perspectives within the Faculty reflect the local and global landscape and the need for curiosity, innovative thinking and collaboration. At Arts and Science, we take pride in our legacy of innovation and discovery that has changed the way we think about the world. Your opportunity: The Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy proudly offers 14 teaching programs in a variety of areas of global expertise. As part of the University of Toronto, we are home to exceptional faculty, experts, and researchers from around the globe, and over 40 academic centres, labs, and programs. Our goal is to build a unique, world:renowned research, teaching, and public engagement centre that shapes the new field of global affairs from Canada. Our School unifies those who are passionate about global affairs to discuss the problems of a fast:changing world. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research at the intersection of digital media, global security, and human rights. Under the supervision of the Communication Strategist, the Digital Communications Specialist is responsible for developing, executing, implementing, and evaluating the Citizen Lab's digital communications activities in order to mobilize research knowledge and support the Lab's communication strategy. The incumbent will be responsible for translating Citizen Lab research into engaging and informative visual and written content, tailoring communication outputs to a variety of digital channels, and target audiences. The ideal candidate for this role is someone who is able to work effectively both individually and within a team environment while coordinating tasks showing creativity, initiative and strong judgement. Your responsibilities will include: :Producing and disseminating communications/marketing materials to support the Labs objectives :Implementing a digital media plan that supports marketing/communications strategy :Planning, writing, editing, and designing content for newsletters, web, and social media to promote research activities :Analyzing and evaluating communication metrics to support the optimization of campaign and content performance. :Maintaining website content according to strategic communications objectives and user feedback :Liaising with departmental staff to support effective content/story development :Producing visuals to communicate scientific data and research findings :Serving as a resource to others by providing (non:supervisory) job:related guidance Essential Qualifications: :Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, Professional Writing or a related discipline :Minimum four (4) years'recent and related experience in communications, journalism, or marketing in a research lab environment, including experience developing and implementing compelling communications/marketing plans and content for a variety of mediums, including digital, and social media, to increase knowledge mobilization. :Demonstrated experience conducting post:campaign evaluation and analysis. :Experience in communicating research knowledge/findings. :Experience identifying media and publ