Ontario NDP Lead Digital Officer – Toronto, ON

Office

Ontario NDP

Position

Ontario NDP Lead Digital Officer

Location

Toronto, ON

Description

The Ontario New Democratic Party seeks an energetic, organized and results-oriented Lead Digital Officer to run an ambitious online fundraising and organizing program. The Lead Digital Officer will oversee all outbound online communications from the Party. They will be responsible for email, social media, digital advertising and list growth. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing the overall digital strategy; setting digital goals and metrics; determining processes, tools, tech, and plan needed to achieve those goals; executing the plan and reporting to the Provincial Secretary.

Responsibilities

• Executing an ambitious fundraising plan and meeting project goals
• Building the Ontario NDP’s email and social lists
• Managing the calendaring, writing, editing, and approval processes for outbound email
• Review the web needs of the organization and oversee implementation of updates and new tools
• Ensuring all applicable digital areas have established KPIs and sharing metrics across management and team, responsible for measurement and review
• Overseeing tests to optimize landing pages and emails
• Other duties as required

Qualifications

• 5+ years high-level professional digital experience
• Digital organizing and fundraising expertise, including running a province wide digital program
• Demonstrated experience running a data-driven program
• Demonstrated strategic planning of cross-departmental, and/or organization-wide digital support
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated use of excellent writing skills
• Knowledge of the Ontario NDP
• Excellent judgement, a polite, engaging and enthusiastic manner
• Strong organizational, communication and problem solving skills and the ability to work under pressure and with
• hard deadlines
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to take direction and initiative as appropriate
• Willingness to work irregular hours, including occasional evenings and weekends

Preference given for:

• Statistical analysis and reporting experience
• Background in multiple areas of digital work (i.e. email, revenue, social media, design, development, etc.)
• Digital testing
• Bilingual, French & English

Salary

The Ontario NDP supports employment equity. Racialized workers, women, Aboriginal workers, LGBTQTS workers,

young workers, Francophone workers, and workers with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Compensation: This is a full time position that is compensated in accordance with the collective agreement between the Ontario NDP and COPE 343.

Closing date

2016-01-22 5:00 PM (EST)

Send resume, cover letter and salary expectations to:

Applications (including resume, cover letter and relevant references) should be sent by e-mail to the attention of Karla Webber-Gallagher, Provincial Secretary kwebberg@on.ndp.ca. Please include the job title in the subject line.

Note

Only those individuals selected for an interview will be contacted.