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Key Technical Skills Project Planning and Scheduling: Developing detailed project plans, timelines, and schedules. Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating project risks. Resource Management: Allocating and managing resources effectively to ensure project success. Budget Management: Planning and controlling project budgets and costs. Quality Management: Ensuring project deliverables meet the required quality standards. Stakeholder Management: Engaging and communicating with stakeholders to ensure their needs are met. Responsibilities In the Communications Team, you will coordinate all external marketing, communications and creative services projects, ensuring appropriate resources are available and timelines are observed. Project Planning As project leader for communication projects, you will develop and facilitate project plans and schedules, align schedules with available resources, brief the project team on goals, coordinate the review of drafts, proofs from creative, and ensure optimal use of internal resources. Media Placement In liaison with the media placement agency, advertising agency, or creative/design studios, you will implement media plans, set schedules, provide budget allocations, coordinate approvals of media buy recommendations, placements and advertisement schedules, ensure creative assets are supplied and monitor advertising schedules against the overall project budget. Production Process Source, interview, and negotiate with suppliers and production vendors, analyze quotations to provide cost estimates, generate purchase requisitions, reconcile invoices against quotations, monitor project progress, document project phases and create summary reports, track and monitor project budgets, manage production docket system, coordinate proofreading and inspection of pre-press artwork to ensure quality. Requirements Completion of a recognized diploma in Business Administration, Communications, or related field from an accredited post-secondary institution. Minimum of three (3) years directly related and recent experience and should include project management. Thorough knowledge of procedures involved in print production, including pre-press and printing technology, digital and social media. Thorough understanding of the use of communications media (collateral, web, advertising - print, radio, TV, online) to achieve clients objectives. Ability to assess and evaluate the quality of suppliers work and evaluate estimates for accuracy. Strong communications planning and project management skills with sound budgeting and time management skills, including the ability to work effectively under tight deadlines with minimal supervision. Strong knowledge of written and digital project management tools. Excellent verbal and written communication and proof-reading skills. Strong knowledge of computer systems operations, environment and peripherals and various applications software in use in the department (Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign & suite of MS Office products). #J-18808-Ljbffr