ASI Asia Pacific

Communications Manager – Outreach, Strategy

ASI Asia Pacific
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeVancouver • CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$80,000 - CA$85,000 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in digital communications and content strategy, with a strong focus on improving communication effectiveness and efficiency through analytics and AI tools. Proven ability to manage editorial calendars and collaborate across teams to enhance outreach and media engagement.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Digital CommunicationsContent StrategyGA4 AnalyticsEditorial Calendar ManagementMedia Relations

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Drupal

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead a practical review of APF Canada’s standing communications strategy and activities
  • Improve the reach, discoverability, effectiveness, and efficiency of communications supporting research outputs, programs, events, and network activities
  • Confirm priority audiences and desired outcomes
  • Assess newsletters, social media channels, and multimedia production and distribution
  • Recommend and implement improvements to content presentation, titles, summaries, metadata, SEO, PDF best practices, accessibility, reuse, and syndication
  • Improve KPIs, reporting cadence, and tracking using GA4, email metrics, and platform insights
  • Identify three-to-six high-value, low-risk AI and automation opportunities with human oversight and guardrails
  • Deliver a prioritized 12-month communications implementation plan and 90-day quick wins
  • Lead working sessions with communications, research, and programming teams
  • Provide ongoing senior-level support to the communications team
  • Conduct proactive outreach to domestic and international media across Canada and the Indo-Pacific
  • Pitch APF Canada experts to journalists and editors
  • Refine the media database and improve media tracking and listening
  • Manage the daily internal communications media brief for senior staff and program managers
  • Develop a lean KPI framework covering website, media, and social media reach, usefulness, and influence
  • Build a systematic content multiplier workflow for summaries, social posts, podcasts, and video shorts
  • Help implement and integrate a project management platform across offices in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and Singapore
  • Improve intra-organizational collaboration
  • Manage the editorial calendar in the project management platform
  • Maintain templates for editorial calendars, distribution checklists, event communications, asset production, and reporting

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 5-to-10 years of progressively senior communications experience
  • Experience in a think-tank, research institute, university, government, or non-profit setting is ideal
  • Demonstrated experience with digital communications, content strategy, social media, multimedia, and implementing AI/digital tools ethically
  • Demonstrated record of placing stories, op-eds, and expert commentary with national or international media
  • Experience building durable relationships with journalists and editors
  • Hands-on fluency with digital analytics and reporting, including GA4, email platform metrics, and social insights
  • Experience running an editorial or content calendar in a project management platform such as Asana, Monday.com, or ClickUp
  • Practical, responsible experience applying AI tools such as Claude to communications work
  • Clear grasp of where AI tools help and where they do not
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency in French is an asset
  • Familiarity with CMS platforms such as Drupal or Wix
  • Familiarity with media monitoring services such as Meltwater or Cision
  • Familiarity with email marketing platforms such as MailChimp
  • Eligible to work in Canada
  • University or technical institute degree, or advanced diploma, in communications, new/digital media, or a related field
  • Availability to work Monday to Friday during regular office hours from the Vancouver office on a hybrid schedule

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Comprehensive extended health benefits package
  • Vision care
  • Dental care
  • Paramedical services
  • Telemedicine
  • Employee & Family Assistance Program (E&FAP)
  • Hybrid work schedule with 2 days per week in the office
  • Possibility of contract renewal

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Hard Skills
Digital CommunicationsContent StrategySocial MediaMultimedia ProductionAI Tools ApplicationDigital AnalyticsEmail MetricsSEO Best PracticesKPI DevelopmentProject Management
Soft Skills
Exceptional Verbal CommunicationExceptional Written CommunicationRelationship BuildingCollaborationProactive Outreach
Tools & Technologies
GA4AsanaMonday.comClickUpMailChimpDrupalWixMeltwaterCision
Industry Keywords
Think-TankResearch InstituteNon-ProfitGovernmentUniversity