Senior Events Outreach Advisor
Senior Events Outreach Advisor
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Job Description
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is the statutory body responsible for regulating Ontarios capital markets in accordance with the mandate established in the provincial Securities Act and the Commodity Futures Act. The mandate of the OSC is to provide protection to investors from unfair improper or fraudulent practices to foster fair efficient and competitive capital markets and confidence in the capital markets to foster capital formation and to contribute to the stability of the financial system and the reduction of systemic risk. This mandate is performed through policy operational and enforcement activities. The OSC also contributes to national and global securities regulation development.
We offer a diverse fair and flexible work environment and take pride in our challenging and rewarding work.
14month Maternity Leave Backfill
Summary
The Senior Events & Outreach Advisor is responsible for producing and overseeing high profile corporate events on behalf of the organization. These include events with national and international speakers/attendees hosted by the OSC and CSA of reputational significance.
Events must be of upmost quality and professionalism to meet/exceed attendee speaker and Government expectations and best position the OSC in todays everchanging market.
The Senior Events & Outreach Advisor is a versatile and experienced communications professional who delivers and oversees high quality large scale corporate thoughtleadership events targeted to diverse audience groups including retail investors and senior market participants consistent with the communications strategy of the OSC. This role draws on excellent strategic planning organizational and operations skills and can clearly guide and deliver from start to finish corporate events that enhance the reputation of a major government regulatory agency. The person in this role is committed to surveying considering and analyzing feedback from each event to ensure superior quality with each subsequent event.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Corporate event oversight: provide corporate event planning and implementation for a variety of organizational projects including but not limited to thoughtleadership conferences policy roundtables international events all staff engagement meetings stakeholder receptions and specialized offsite retreats.
- Provide leadership by working across multiple branches and channels manage budgets procurement and the delivery of information and materials for a variety of internal and external audiences.
- Event editorial oversight: Manage editorial aspects of corporate events (e.g. Employee Meetings and stakeholder conferences) including researching speakers and topics developing event scripts and producing high quality collateral including programs and designing presentations.
- Relationship management: represent the OSC (and where necessary the CMRA) as the key point of contact and liaison between the organization and major event venues and external thirdparty suppliers. Negotiate favourable terms and deliver costeffective event solutions that reflect positively on the OSC as a senior market regulator. Represent the organization with senior market participants Board members media and international speakers attending or speaking at OSC events each with their own expectations of the event and their importance.
- Internal communications: Produce OSCAll staff events delivering against event objectives project plan and overseeing all logistics as the inhouse event professional ensure the events objectives are met.
- Operations planning: Serve in senior capacity across Commission on event planning including procurement (RFPs CIFs and liaising with GCO (legal) and accounting) and promotion (including reports and events) for all corporate events. Advise on best format best practices budgetary considerations for corporate events often 18 months to two years in the making. Develop strong working relationships with colleagues throughout the organization and within the emerging CMRA.
Qualifications
- University degree college degree or equivalent preferably in communications event planning or a related field.
- Minimum seven to ten years of experience in communications or event planning at the corporate or agency level;
- Experience in research planning and logistical delivery of various communications events as well as related materials and support;
- Comfort with dealing directly with external event suppliers (including venues) as well as senior market participants on the day of events;
- Experience working with external print and design vendors;
- An understanding of the current issues facing the Ontario Securities Commission and the Canadian regulatory landscape would be an asset
- Exceptional project management skills to support the efficient planning and organization of corporate communications initiatives ensuring consistency for the OSC/CSA;
- A high degree of professionalism particularly in situations demanding adaptation to change and the need to execute despite potential unknown variables.
- Ability to organize complex tasks and set priorities in a dynamic changing environment that requires a senior voice of reason who remains positive and calm under high pressure public situations;
- Ability to systematically break down complex or multidimensional problems or processes; able to assess solutions and determine their value based on success criteria risk and impact on desired organization results
- Computer literate word processing spreadsheets graphics specialized/proprietary applications Mircrosoft Office Suite (Word PowerPoint Excel) Adobe Design Standard (Photoshop Illustrator InDesign) HTML website content management software familiarity with event app softwares such as Eventmobi event survey and event registration softwares.
Behaviours/Attributes
- You have exceptional communication project and event management and interpersonal skills (particularly with senior level csuite leaders);
- You are able to build collaborative relationships with subject matter experts internal stakeholders and senior management;
- You are good at prioritizing tasks and duties meeting strict deadlines and can respond easily to changing demands having planned in advance for different outcomes or scenarios;
- You are responsive to direction and constructive criticism; and
- You are selfmotivated and able to work independently within a team environment and at times with limited direction proven ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion and integrity.
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We thank all applicants for their interest in the Ontario Securities Commission. We will contact those selected for an interview.
The OSC is committed to diversity and providing an inclusive workplace and providing accommodation in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Human Rights Code. It is our priority to ensure employment opportunities are visible and barrierfree to all underrepresented groups including but not limited to Indigenous Black and racialized groups people with disabilities women and people from the 2SLGBTQI community to achieve an employee demographic profile reflective of the demographic profile of Ontarians.
The OSC is a proud partner with the following organizations: Ascend Canada BlackNorth Initiative Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion and Pride at Work Canada
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
