8 Jan 2012

Full-Time Digital/Social Media Strategist

Creative Niche Inc. –     itjobsToronto, Ontario, Canada

Job Description

We are currently seeking a senior-level Digital/Social Media Strategist to be an integral force within our client’s digital team. This critical role enables many of the agency’s event, communications and demand programs. As a day to day lead on some exciting digital client work, your abundant experience and enthusiasm about all things digital allows you to inspire and educate clients and colleagues about digital strategies to support marketing and communications programs.

You can counsel clients effectively while identifying new opportunities and play a key role in proposal development and pitch. Marshaling resources to oversee the development of a full spectrum web sites, communication platforms, social media, mobile, and overall digital strategy to clients is second nature.

Requirements:

  • A degree or diploma in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years experience and advancement in a digital agency environment

  • Engage senior clients, formulate and articulate great strategies that engage client stakeholders through digital and social media

  • Solid planning experience on multi-site communications platforms and a track record for providing strategic counsel and direction on overall content and delivery strategy including deliverable design, UE, architecture, data management and support

  • Expertise in delivering client digital marketing or communications solutions based in WordPress, and a knowledge of customizing themes, widgets, plugins, etc., would be a key asset

  • Familiarity and understanding of HTML, XHTML, CSS ASP, PHP and JavaScript of RSS/XML/MySQL

  • Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility, SEO, SEM

  • Strong understanding in interactive design principles

Qualifications:

  • Excellent communications skills and comfortable in a room of senior stakeholders

  • Creative thinking, effective problem-solving, attention to detail and an understanding of communications strategy and good design are critical

  • A passion for digital and social media excellence and design, immersed in the digital realm, balanced with proven experience client relationship management and counsel

  • Leadership quality communication (oral and written), administratively strong (time capture, understanding budgets, time management skills) and the ability to work under pressure are a must, as this is a deadline-driven business

  • Will thrive on creative business challenges, be able to think outside-the-box and boundaries, and have the ability to switch quickly between several projects driving them from start to completion to help guide production processes and setting agency best practice standards

 

How to Apply

All candidates will be expected to submit a portfolio with at least five (5) examples of previous work

Please apply for this position through our Online Registration System.

We appreciate your interest but due to time constraints we can only contact candidates in consideration. Creative Niche is dedicated to matching outstanding communication, design and interactive professionals with the right companies. If you are not contacted for the current role(s) for which you have applied, please be confident that your application will be electronically filed for future searches.

Job Categories: Creative Media. Job Types: Full-Time. Job expires in 15 days.

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