Senior Director, Communications and Strategy

Senior Director, Communications and Strategy

Job Category: Leadership

Requisition Number: SENIO
002115

• Posted :
  September 10, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Newmarket
Newmarket, ON L3Y 9C3, CAN

Why work for CMHA York Region?

We deliver quality mental health and addictions services that promote recovery and health, and end stigma.

Our Values:

• Responsive to the needs of our clients, their families, and our communities
• Respectful in how we meet the needs of our clients and staff in each interaction
• Committed to delivering the highest quality of care, every time
• Innovative in our approach to meeting our clients’ and communities’ needs
• Inclusive in how we work and serve our clients

Team Values:

• We create belonging
• We build better

We offer an inclusive, innovative, and high-performance work culture that helps us deliver transformational impact. The organization cares about the growth, safety and well-being of employees and offers:

• HOOPP (Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan)

We are looking for a Senior Director, Communications and Strategy!

Position: Permanent, Full-time, 35 Hours per Week. Evening hours and weekends may be required.

Salary: $-$ per annum.
* This represents the first and last step of a salary grid. Candidate experience and internal equity will be considered when determining the starting salary

Reason for Posting:A existing vacancy

Benefits: Full Extended Health & Dental, Life Insurance, EAP, STD, LTD, & Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP). Generous paid time off including vacation, sick, and personal days.

Location: The CMHA home office for this role is Newmarket, located at 1101 Nicholson Road, Unit 5, Newmarket, ON L3Y 9C3 and the incumbent may be required to travel to other CMHA Offices in York Region and South Simcoe as required.

Job Profile:

The Senior Director, Communication and Strategy will provide senior leadership for organizational communications and a defined portfolio of enterprise strategy responsibilities.

The role leads the Communications function while coordinating selected strategic planning, executive and governance support, organizational performance reporting, stakeholder engagement and cross-functional initiatives. Accountabilities requiring executive authority remain with the Chief Executive Officer or the accountable executive.

Duties:

Communications Leadership and Reputation:

• Lead organizational communications strategy,planning and delivery in alignment with organizational priorities.
• Provide oversight of internal and external communications, media relations, executive communications, public affairs, brand and reputation.
• Guide communications for organizational change, sensitive matters, service launches, campaigns, partnership sand community engagement.
• Identify and escape significant reputational risks, ensuring substantive legal, labour relations, privacy, clinical and operational decisionsremainwith the appropriate executiveor specialist.

Strategic Planning and Coordination:

• Coordinate defined elements of strategic plan development, implementation,monitoring and renewal under the authority of the CEO.
• Translate approved strategic priorities into coordinated workplans, milestones,accountabilitiesand reporting processes.
• Monitor progress against approved commitments andidentifyemerging gaps, dependencies, risks and opportunities for executive consideration.
• Support organizational intelligence by synthesizing sector developments, stakeholderinsightsand internal information into decision-support materials.
• Recognize that final enterprise strategy decisions, priority trade-offs and resource allocations remain with the CEO, Executive Leadership Teamor Board, as applicable.

CEO, Executive and Governance Support:

• Prepare executive briefings, presentations, key…