Senior Communications Advisor – French Language Strategy

Senior Communications Advisor – French Language Strategy

Full-time Permanent

Remote

Annual Salary Range: $77,800 to $97,250

Closing Date:
October 30, 2026

Making a lasting impact. Work with purpose.

Join one of Canada’s Top 10 Charities of Impact. Indspire is a national Indigenous charity that invests in the education of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis students, empowering individuals, strengthening communities, and building a stronger country for all.

Indspire is seeking a Senior Communications Advisor – French Language Strategy to provide organization-wide leadership for its national French-language communications. Reporting to the Vice President, Communications & Marketing, the Advisor will develop and implement a national strategy that strengthens Indspire’s relevance, visibility, and relationships with French-speaking audiences and communities across Canada.

The role is responsible for ensuring that French communications are strategically planned, culturally and regionally appropriate, and equivalent in quality and intent to Indspire’s English-language communications. The Advisor leads French translation and localization, establishes standards and quality-assurance processes, supports francophone media engagement, and builds relationships with French-speaking community, education, government and sector partners.

English is Indspire’s primary working language. The successful candidate must be fully bilingual, with exceptional professional fluency in spoken and written French and English, and must be able to advise, write, edit, translate and present effectively in both languages.

• Developing and leading a national French-language communications strategy aligned with Indspire’s 2026–2031 Strategic Plan, organizational priorities and brand.
• Assessing French-language audience needs, regional considerations, channel opportunities and organizational readiness, and translating findings into a phased implementation roadmap.
• Advising the Vice President and senior leadership on French-language positioning, communications priorities, reputational considerations and opportunities to strengthen Indspire’s national reach.
• Establishing objectives, standards, measures and reporting for French-language communications across Indspire’s programs, campaigns, events and corporate initiatives.

• Leading the translation, adaptation and localization of priority communications, including web content, media materials, campaigns, executive communications, reports, event materials, digital content and stakeholder communications.
• Ensuring French content reflects the intended meaning, tone, audience and cultural context rather than relying on literal translation.
• Creating and maintaining French-language terminology, editorial standards, style guidance, templates and quality‑assurance processes for consistent organization-wide use.
• Reviewing and approving high‑profile French-language materials and managing external translators or specialized language vendors when additional capacity is required.
• Supporting efficient bilingual workflows by advising teams on planning, timelines, source‑content readiness and approvals.

• Developing and maintaining relationships with French‑language journalists, editors, producers, outlets and sector influencers across Canada.
• Identifying proactive media opportunities that increase awareness of Indspire, Indigenous learners, Indspire Awards Laureates, research and organizational priorities among French-speaking audiences.
• Drafting and localizing French-language news releases, pitches, key messages, media statements, briefing materials and…