Senior Stakeholder and Community Relations Specialist

Overview

Do you excel at cultivating and fostering relationships with stakeholders and communities? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Stakeholder, Community and Indigenous Relations team as a senior specialist, Stakeholder and Community Relations.

In this role, you’ll leverage your expertise in managing various stakeholder and community relationships to provide strategic recommendations to our enterprise leadership regarding WorkSafeBC’s stakeholder engagements. You’ll focus on fostering relationships with key stakeholders, including employer and industry associations, regulatory bodies, labor unions, and community-based groups.

Your ability to engage effectively will be instrumental in advancing a balanced and strategic stakeholder and community relations strategy, ensuring our engagements are both effective and aligned with our organizational goals.

How you’ll make a difference: You’ll build understanding and trust that helps WorkSafeBC serve people across B.C.

Where you’ll work

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a model that combines the convenience of working remotely with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you’ll work primarily from your assigned local office, with some flexibility to work from your home in B.C.

What you’ll do

• Lead key stakeholder engagement projects and initiatives to ensure alignment between WorkSafeBC’s strategic priorities and stakeholder needs
• Analyze and provide recommendations and advice to leadership teams across the organization on a wide variety of stakeholder concerns and business needs, and ensure recommendations are timely, sound, and sensitive to the current political climate to mitigate potential concerns or issues
• Help inform WorkSafeBC strategy, policy, and operational decisions by providing insight into stakeholder perspectives
• Assist in the management and implementation of stakeholder outreach initiatives, including developing engagement strategies, timelines, drafting communications, and tracking responses for follow-up

Is this a good fit for you?

We’re looking for someone who can:

• Influence decision-making through accurate, timely, thoughtful written and verbal communication with all internal and external stakeholders
• Provide guidance and advice to team members at all levels of the organization to ensure stakeholder engagements align to WorkSafeBC’s experience framework
• Develop a deep understanding of WorkSafeBC and stakeholder business and political needs, perspectives, and pressures through consistent engagement activities.
• Manage and implement specific projects and initiatives by developing project/program plans, critically thinking through problems to develop opportunities

Your background and experience

• A university degree in business, political science, communications, public relations, or other relevant discipline.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in the stakeholder or public relations field
• This role requires occasional travel to events across the province.

We’ll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check
• Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada

WorkSafeBC’s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy is suspended effective January 9, 2023; however, we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who we are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What’s it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It’s challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflect the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our benefits

As a member of our team, you’ll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work – and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)

Learn more: Find out what we offer .

Salary: $92,918- $ 112,895/annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately; however, they must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments before the closing date.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply . If you require accommodation during the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.