Join our team! Now hiring: Communications Coordinator

Luke’s Place is seeking a full-time collaborative Communications Coordinator, with a minimum of 3 years’ experience to engage in such activities as leading implementation of our communications toolkit, creating promotional materials, managing our websites, creating effective social media campaigns, and managing a weekly blog. This position requires an on-site presence at our Oshawa office. 

Responsibilities:

  • Assist in developing and executing a comprehensive communications plan to support organizational objectives and initiatives 
  • Create compelling and persuasive content for various communication channels, including press releases, newsletters, websites, blogs, social media and marketing materials 
  • Manage the organization’s social media presence, ensuring timely and engaging posts to interact with the audience and grow our online community 
  • Ensure all promotional materials comply with organization standards and branding
  • Respond to media inquiries and maintain relationships with journalists and other members of the press 
  • Build and maintain relationships with media contacts, stakeholders, and partners to enhance the organization’s visibility and reputation 
  • Create annual reports that promote the organization’s work and accomplishments to stakeholders and donors 
  • Develop a variety of unique campaigns including the promotion of our work and fundraising campaigns 
  • Fulfill any communication requirements of grant proposals and maintain regular statistics on engagement with online resources and social media posts 
  • Maintain the organization’s websites ensuring content accuracy, and optimizing user experience 
  • Maintain and implement communications toolkit   

About us

Luke’s Place is an award-winning centre of excellence in family law support for women who have been subjected to intimate partner violence. We provide legal support services and summary legal services to hundreds of women and their children across Ontario every year and share our expertise with thousands of service providers.

Luke’s Place conducts research to understand the impact of legal and related systems and processes on women’s lives. We engage in advocacy to share these findings and improve these systems and processes. Luke’s Place envisions a family law system that promotes healthy safe families, living free from abuse, and the threat of abuse. 

Application:

Luke’s Place, in accordance with its gender responsive anti-oppressive framework, welcomes and encourages applications from women, especially within equity-seeking groups. We use the term women to include all self-identified women including two-spirited, non-binary, cisgender, or transgender women.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment, so we strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification outlined but read this posting with excitement.

Priority will be given to candidates with experience related to Violence Against Women.

How to apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit a letter of interest along with their resume in confidence to the attention of Samantha Warden, Program Manager at careers@lukesplace.ca.  Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.

At Luke’s Place we are committed to fostering a healthy and positive work environment.  In accordance with the Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Right Code, we encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs throughout all stages of the selection process.  If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform the representative from Luke’s Place of any accommodations you may require to ensure your equal participation.