Job Description

Job Description

YOU’RE A NATURAL storyteller .

Posted: 04-22-2025

Closing: When Filled

Location: Edmonton Admin

For you, being a great communicator is more than just being an excellent writer (which you are) or knowing your way around both online and offline communications. It’s about truly connecting with your audience—putting yourself in their shoes, understanding their journey, and building trust. Most of all, you’re a master storyteller who uses insight, creativity and compassion to create copy that makes someone say: “They get me.” And you really do. You also have the ability to take large complex – and sometimes sensitive – topics and distill them down to the core messages and updates, while pushing your content through communication channels which will be most impactful to your audience.

WHAT MOVES YOU

• You’re a master multi-tasker who can juggle projects and priorities with ease.
• You bring creative flair to all your projects, nailing the brief every time.
• You write with clarity, elegance, simplicity and evocativeness—and always know the right tone for the right piece.
• You have an innate understanding of how to pull key threads from a complex conversation and distill them into easily digestible communications.
• You stay on top of industry trends, developments and best practices in communications.
• You’re an excellent editor with an eagle eye for typos. You probably spell-checked this posting!
• You work just as well on your own as you do in a team.
• You’re not only comfortable with change, you embrace it. And you like to help others through it too.
• You have strong executive presence and not afraid to ask for the information you need to write the best communications possible.
• You have a knack for understanding business strategy and connecting it to your frontline’s purpose.
• You’re a proud word nerd who knows the difference between license and licence.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Report to the Vice President, Corporate Purpose.
• Work in partnership with our internal communications team and our executive team to get information you need to keep the organization up to date with our strategy.
• Research, write and edit stories for the executive team.
• Use your knowledge of the Canadian Press Style Guide to create and edit content that’s written in AMA’s unique brand voice.
• Build an executive editorial calendar, ensuring news is effectively communicated in a timely way.
• Measure and monitor the effectiveness of executive communications.
• Work within tight deadlines to deliver compelling, story-driven executive content to and stakeholders.

WHAT YOU'VE DONE

• You have a Bachelor’s degree or post-secondary diploma in a related field such as journalism, English or professional writing.
• You have a minimum of 3 years of writing or content development experience.
• You have executive-level communications experience.
• You have a strong background in writing and editing a range of content, including long form/magazine, video scripts, writing for the web, image editing and content management.
• You have proven expertise in writing and editing brand content.
• Podcast experience an asset.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible benefits.
• Outstanding employer-paid Retirement Savings Program.
• Great AMA discounts.
• Unlimited learning opportunities.
• Paid vacation and other paid time off including a Volunteer Day and Me-Day.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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