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International Institute for Sustainable Development is hiring a

Publishing Officer

🇨🇦 Winnipeg, MB, CA 📝 FULL-TIME 🎯 MID LEVEL

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning independent think tank working to accelerate solutions for a stable climate, sustainable resource management, and fair economies. Our work inspires better decisions and sparks meaningful action to help people and the planet thrive. We shine a light on what can be achieved when governments, businesses, non-profits, and communities come together. IISD’s staff of more than 120 people, plus over 150 associates and consultants, come from across the globe and from many disciplines. With offices in Winnipeg, Geneva, Ottawa, and Toronto, our work affects lives in nearly 100 countries. We are currently looking for a publishing manager to work in our Winnipeg office.

About the Position

We are very excited to be adding a Publishing Officer to our IISD communication team. The position will offer a flexible and challenging work environment with lots of room to grow.

The Publishing Officer will be a key figure at IISD, working directly with IISD’s research and policy staff across the world. The successful candidate will work closely, and report to the Deputy Director, Communications to ensure IISD’s publishing processes and communications team operations run efficiently and successfully.

This position has a wide range of responsibilities, and we encourage anyone who feels they are up to the task to apply. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, willing to learn on the job, and can easily adjust to changing expectations.

Responsibilities

Publishing process management

  • Work with the Deputy Director, Communications to co-manage the full publishing process for IISD outputs, including the coordination of editing, design, translation, and print. These outputs include but are not limited to reports, briefs, business cards, signage, video, posters, and proposals.
  • Work collaboratively with various internal and external stakeholders on IISD publishing outputs, ensuring a positive and collaborative process from start to finish.
  • Assign publishing work to internal and external team members to ensure outputs are completed in a timely manner and all IISD publishing process standards are met.
  • Co-manage publishing process expectations by providing accurate timeline estimations and creating work-back schedules for publishing outputs.
  • Review designed publishing outputs with a keen eye for detail.
  • Design/document clean-up of Microsoft documents when required.

Website posting and monitoring

  • Post and monitor IISD publications on IISD’s various websites, in both Drupal and WordPress content management systems.
  • Assist the Deputy Director, Communications in monitoring IISD websites, ensuring that best practices and set guidelines are followed.

Operations

  • Manage and track publishing invoices and credit card charges.
  • Ensure all publishing invoices are approved and paid in a timely manner.
  • Reconcile IISD communication team credit card expenses.
  • Assist the Deputy Director, Communications with overall IISD communication team operations, including but limited to team onboarding, meeting logistics, budget monitoring, and updating team informational and guidance assets.

Merchandise

  • Work with the Deputy Director, Communications on IISD and IISD-ELA merchandise production, planning, and dissemination.
  • Use various online shipping tools (predominantly Canada Post) to ship merchandise orders across the world in a timely manner.
  • Oversee general inventory of all IISD and IISD-ELA merchandise and update accordingly through the IISD-ELA online store and payment software.

Other tasks

  • Fill in for the Deputy Director, Communications when needed.
  • Assist various teams with meeting/event coordination when needed.
  • Assist the Deputy Director, Communications with travel arrangements for the IISD communications team when needed.
  • Participate actively in weekly publishing team meetings and bi-weekly communication team meetings.

Other duties as needed.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Completion of post-secondary education (college or university). Education related to project management, or library or information science would be considered an asset.
  • 3–5 years related on-the-job experience.
  • Extensive experience working in a Windows-based environment (Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, Teams).
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  • Proven ability to keep track of multiple projects at once.
  • Proven ability to work under pressure with short deadlines.
  • Meticulous attention to detail.
  • Ability to prioritize and multitask while remaining efficient and organized.
  • Ability to be responsive, accurate, and timely with problem resolution.
  • Must be open to feedback and be able to take direction.
  • Comfortable working with a large team in a remote environment.
  • Strong project management skills
  • Willingness to work overtime or after hours when needed.

Assets

  • Editing experience.
  • Design experience (Word, PPT, InDesign, Photoshop).
  • French and/or Spanish language skills.
  • Experience working in content management systems (Drupal and WordPress).
  • Experience working on an e-commerce website.
  • Openness to learning new skills on the job.

Location: This position will be a hybrid home/office role based in Winnipeg (a minimum of 1–2 days a week in the office weekly will be required).

Starting salary: $58,000 to $63,000 (salary commensurate with experience)

Deadline for application: February 16, 2023.

Start date: Negotiable. The earliest start date will be March 1, 2023

Application Procedure

All submissions must be in English. Accommodations for job applicants with disabilities are available on request.

Candidates must hold appropriate work authorization for Canada.

Applications will only be accepted through Bamboo HR.

Please include the following:

  • A CV (no longer than two pages)
  • A cover letter (one page)
  • IISD Voluntary Self-Identification Questionnaire (optional)

Only those candidates we wish to interview will be contacted. Resumes will be kept on file for 1 year.

IISD has implemented a COVID-19 vaccination policy that requires employees who are required or choose to be at an office or participate in in-person team events or in-person meetings/events to be fully vaccinated. Anyone unable to be fully vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or a disability that prevents them from being fully vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.

IISD is committed to fostering a more equitable and sustainable world and welcomes candidates who uphold our values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In addition, to correct the conditions of social injustice and disadvantage in employment around the world, we encourage candidates from historically marginalized groups, including women, Indigenous Peoples, people with disabilities, people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, and those who identify themselves as 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply for this position. Preference will be given to the equity-deserving groups during the hiring process. We offer reasonable accommodations in our recruitment process and seek applicants' advice on how best to accommodate their needs. Please self-identify and answer our employment equity questionnaire on our applicant tracking system when you apply.

International Institute for Sustainable Development

International Institute for Sustainable Development iisd.org

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) is an award-winning think tank championing sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing problems. Our mission is to promote human development and environmental sustainability.

Established in 1990, IISD has offices in Canada and Switzerland, and our work impacts economies, communities, ecosystems, and lives in over 100 countries.

Our global reach allows us to bring networks together to build skills, share ideas and deliver results that last. We work at all levels, from intergovernmental forums to regional and local governments, to civil society and the private sector.

As an independent think tank, we cut through political divisions to build broad-based coalitions and offer a voice of reason in an increasingly polarized world.

🏷 Details

Posted on
January 24th 2023
Department
Communications
Compensation
$58,000 to $63,000 (salary commensurate with experience)
Experience
MID-LEVEL
Type
FULL-TIME

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