Job description: Digital Communications Assistant
Location: Montreal
Duration: Fixed term contract 12 months
Reports to: Web and Analytics Manager
Job Purpose: Support internal stakeholders with their content requirements by editing, updating and styling daily content requirements on ifrs.org in line with our internal brand, style and editorial guidelines.
Support the Communications Department in helping to encourage public engagement in the IFRS Foundation’s portfolio of online activities.
Background
The communications and external affairs team is responsible for the IFRS Foundation’s communications strategy and implementation. The role is focused on the website and social media channels, to build content to update users on all Foundation activities and to support the Foundation’s growing online requirements.
Principal tasks
• Manage daily website updates based on guidelines
o Work within the webteam ticketing system
o Prep and manage content within the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) CMS to support daily business as usual
o Quality assure all content for accuracy, grammar and punctuation
o Liaise with other teams to approve content
o Publish content across all communication platforms
• Undertake effective website improvement and SEO tasks
• Support any new structural website requirements
• Ensure accuracy of all links
• Maintain a record of bugs and errors
• Ensure consistency of application of content
• Populate our social media channels and track interactions
• Support the Webteam and Communications in making informed content decisions
• The web team is effectively the gatekeeper of all the Foundation’s content, so a strong sense of responsibility and ownership of high-quality content is required
Additional tasks
Support the broader Communications team with ad hoc tasks, including:
• Gathering analytical information
• Internal image management
• Research
Qualifications and experience
Essential:
• Previous experience in a web editing role, preferably with an editorial background
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of using web CMSs
Advantageous:
• Knowledge of AEM
• Previous experience in content sign-off responsibility
Skills, attributes and experience required
• Experience of working with CMSs and/or databases, ideally AEM
• Experience of updating websites daily and/or web-based content project work
• Strong editorial skills
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with a wide range of colleagues
• Attention to detail
• Strong collaborative skills to work as part of a team, as well as the ability to be self-motivated
• Process driven
• Ability to manage workload effectively to meet deadlines
• High level of computer literacy
The organisation
The IFRS Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established to develop—in the public interest—high-quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted standards for general purpose financial reporting and to promote and facilitate their adoption.
The standards—IFRS® Accounting Standards and IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards—are set by the Foundation’s standard-setting bodies, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the more recently formed International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). IFRS Accounting Standards are required in more than 140 jurisdictions.
The two boards are overseen by the IFRS Foundation Trustees, who in turn are accountable to a Monitoring Board of public authorities.
In November 2021, the Trustees announced the creation of the ISSB and the consolidation of the Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) and the Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) into the Foundation. This process was completed on 1 August 2022 and the addition of the new board has taken the Foundation from a ‘one board/two locations’ organisation to a ‘two boards/several locations’ organisation (with offices across multiple time zones, including San Francisco, Montreal, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo) with a significant increase in overall headcount. The ISSB has issued its first two inaugural standards in June 2023 and jurisdictions are now considering theme for adoption.
To Apply
Please send your application materials to: recruitment@ifrs.org Please include the following information or your application may not be considered:
• the job title/position you are interested in (in the subject line of your email);
• Detailed CV/resume; and
• covering email/letter detailing how you meet the specified role requirements and your salary expectations.
Closing date: Ongoing
Due to the number of responses we receive, we are unable to respond individually to each application. If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
