Communications Officer

Communications Officer

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to inspire everyone who attends our campus – artists, leaders, and thinkers – to unleash their creative potential.
We acknowledge, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minhrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai.

We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

The Communications Officer at Banff Centre is a natural planner, a passionate pitcher, an in-house storyteller, who thrives in collaboration.
The Communications Officer prepares, implements, and evaluates external communications plans for Banff Centre in collaboration with specific program, event, service, and administrative areas. The objective of this position is to provide support to the Director of Communications for all external communications relating to events and programs as well as creating the content and storytelling needs of Banff Centre.

The role is responsible for researching, writing, editing, and proofreading content from a variety of internal sources, as well as coordinating and commissioning content from external contributors when appropriate.
A primary focus of this position is to strengthen Banff Centre’s presence across owned and earned communication channels by developing engaging stories, securing media coverage, increasing participation in events, and encouraging applications to programs. A key member of the Communications team in creating and executing unified marketing and communications plans.

Reporting to Director of Communications, below are some key accountabilities:

• The Communications Officer works with the Communications Coordinator to maintain a media clippings library, is a key user of our media monitoring service, and is responsible for media coverage reporting to the Board of Governors.
• Working closely with the Director of Communications, this position drafts news releases and related pitches, as required.
• This position assists in responding to inquiries from the media, organizing media visits to Banff Centre, and writing and leading campus media tours.
• The Communications Officer will have a particular focus on event-related media relations and coverage, working closely with Production on story opportunities for local and provincial media, including drafting speaking notes for pre-show introductions and coordinating event photo and video capture.
• Media outreach and pitching will include public awareness of Banff Centre programs, faculty, and educational outcomes, and will entail working alongside the Communications Coordinator in press material creation.
• The Communications Officer will assist the Director of Communications on crisis communications plans for Banff Centre.

• The Communications Officer will develop and execute Banff Centre’s Content Strategy in close collaboration with the Content Producer.
• They will implement editorial guidelines for all owned content, including articles for web and print, video, audio, and in-person content channels.
• In collaboration with the Content Producer, the Communications Officer will co-manage the content…