Senior Multimedia Specialist

Position Status:
Full-Time Regular
Department:
External Relations
Employee Group:
Teamsters Local 31

Location:

4515 Central Boulevard, Burnaby
Salary Range/ Wage Rate: PG T29 $ 4,054.93 - $4,794.43 bi-weekly

Our External Relations Department is seeking a Senior Multimedia Specialist who can transform organizational priorities into compelling stories, experiences, and multimedia initiatives. As a senior creative lead, you will guide high-profile projects and productions from concept to delivery, providing strategic advice, creative direction, and hands‑on expertise to advance Metro Vancouver's communications, engagement, and brand objectives.

You are an experienced and dynamic creative leader who can bridge strategy and execution. You excel at taking complex issues and organizational priorities and crafting engaging stories and experiences for diverse audiences. You are equally comfortable advising senior leaders, directing creative teams, and delivering hands‑on production work. You thrive in collaborative environments and are experienced in building consensus among diverse stakeholders and navigating complex organizational structures to move projects forward.

• Oversees and directs the delivery and development of high profile videos and other assets to support engagement and education for Metro Vancouver management plans and major multimedia projects; and provides project scope formulation and implementation for these multimedia projects.
• Writes treatments, briefs and scripts for videos, websites, and other media; determines and develops approach and techniques for the same; identifies content, goals and objectives; and provides multimedia strategic direction for various strategies, activities, programs, and projects.
• Plans, assigns, checks and supervises the work of the multimedia team engaged in professional and technical work; implements new directions and workflows; organizes the day to day management of the studios as well as event productions on and off site; directs the work of consultants; and works with social media responders to support Metro Vancouver’s social media program.
• Develops multiple complex strategies for production of multimedia assets; manages multiple projects, events, and productions that may involve confidential information; provides strategic recommendations and execution; develops distribution strategies and packages to ensure assets are available for presentations to the general public and the media as required.
• Participates in the budgetary costing of programs and projects; monitors budget expenditures; oversees the maintenance and adherence to production schedules; develops briefs and manages the brief approval process; develops work plans; tracks production; manages and formulates the production budget, scope, and timing; consults with staff to ensure work is completed; and approves all multimedia tactics, content and materials to ensure alignment with existing corporate goals and objectives.
• Directs creative graphic, motion, print, digital and video; defines creative strategies for new initiatives; creates story-driven communications moments to support corporate strategy, vision, and brand positioning; and ensures creative assets for events or conferences are suitable for web, print, digital, and video production.
• Develops research and methodology for new technologies, social platforms, digital communications and design trends; designs testing scenarios for evaluation; collaborates with others to create production concepts; makes technical and creative recommendations to ensure alignment of creative vision and corporate objectives; oversees development, design, creation, editing, maintenance and evaluation of multimedia digital assets; and collaborates…