Senior Stakeholder & Community Relations Specialist

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.

This is a temporary role for 18-month

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

Where you’ll work

The current vacancy can be based from one of our offices in Burnaby, Courtenay, Kamloops, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Nelson, Port Moody, Prince George, Richmond, Surrey, Terrace and Victoria BC

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a hybrid work model that combines working remotely, and in our offices, based on the operational needs of the position. For further information on the hybrid work arrangements, please refer to WSN — Hybrid Work

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

• 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
• Consistently model the appropriate level of organizational behaviors expected of all WorkSafeBC employees: responsive, respectful, fair, collaborative, accountable, and forward thinking

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
• International Association of Public Participation (IAP2) Certificate in Public Participation is an asset
• Experience with stakeholder relationship management software is an asset
• 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

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:

• 4 weeks of vacation
• Extensive health care and dental benefits
• Sick leave

Learn more: Find out what we offer.

Salary: $92,918 - $112,895/annually

Want to apply?

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

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

Any additional application materials must be received by email to HR Talent Acquisition (SM) by 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date of the competition.