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Bring your impactful communications to our impactful portfolios. We're expanding and need a Senior Associate, Communications to meet growing business demands. If you gain satisfaction from helping readers to understand complex ideas, helping teammates to articulate their thoughts and helping the team to meet goals, this job may be perfect for you.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the Head of Reporting and Communications, the Senior Associate, Communications works across all teams to communicate the impact of our work and our impact portfolios to our clients and prospective clients - delivering clear, compelling communications materials. The work is varied, involving planning, writing, editing, designing, analyzing, amplifying and marketing. A creative, competent behind-the-scenes doer, the Senior Associate, Communications both leads projects and learns from others, shares skills and gains new ones, works on their own and with others. In all cases, they're held accountable to deliver quality work that meets audience needs and our needs.

This is a new role for us, an expansion of our team. There's lots to do and we're excited to work with the new hire to focus the tasks around their skills and career interests. This is a great job for an experienced communicator who is excited to grow alongside us and help a small team do big things.

PRIMARY DUTIES

We expect the job will be mostly communications work, with up to a third of time spent on marketing (with that split dependent on the successful applicant's skillset).

The communications tasks will be focused on helping to deliver current communications materials:

• Work with teammates to write, edit and design client-facing and public-facing purpose-driven communications materials centered around the audience. Our current key materials are quarterly and annual reports about client impact portfolios and our impact funds, investment memos, web content, blog posts, social content and a monthly newsletter. Creating these materials may involve working with the Senior Associate, Impact Reporting on analysis and visualization. We expect the Senior Associate, Communications to take a leadership role in delivering some of these materials, supported by the Head, Reporting and Communications
• Support all teams by designing and editing a range of smaller reports, presentations and documents
• Implement enhancements to our visual identity, and support colleagues to operationalize those enhancements
• Gather, analyze and report on communications metrics

The core marketing work is focused on showcasing our leadership and the value and effectiveness of our work:

• Work with the Head of Reporting and Communications and the Head of Relationship Management to design and deliver a marketing plan to help us reach new audiences. Implementing that plan likely involves:
• Creating advertising (for social, for sectors newsletters and magazine)
• Showcasing our leadership in impact portfolio management and impact measurement, through new pitch decks, new reports and creative visualizations
• Increasing our presence on social media, particularly during key events for the team

QUALIFICATIONS

On your resume, we ask that you demonstrate the following:

• Training, a degree and/or at least five years of relevant work experience in communications, editing, design work or similar
• Experience with reader-focused, reader-responsive communications
• Interest in and some knowledge of impact investing, institutional investments and/or investor relations
• Experience delivering public-facing engaging communications/marketing as well as more narrow-focused reporting-style communications
• Experience analyzing data/information and communicating your analysis
• Design experience
• Software experience, whether web, database, design or writing tools
• Proficiency in English; proficiency in French is considered an asset
• That you are legally able to work in Canada

During the interviews we will be reviewing, assessing, and covering the following:

• Your interest in and ability to communicate about impact investing
• Your understanding of our key audiences
• Your understanding of the systemic problems we're trying to tackle through impact investing
• Your ability to think critically, solve problems and communicate solutions
• Your time and project management skills
• Your interest in undertaking a wide variety of tasks. Not ever-changing! But also not set and static
• Your comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving and self-directed work environment
• Your belief in our company values of honesty, generosity, empathy, curiosity, integrity and grit

WORKING AT RALLY ASSETS

There are many benefits to working at Rally:

• You'll have a job that is in accordance with your values and will be able to contribute on a daily basis to make the world better
• Staff development is guided by individuals' interests and skills rather than simply the official job description
• You get to work alongside a caring team. We respect that staff have busy personal lives and we strive to support everyone to have a good work-life balance
• We support the welfare of team members through health and wellness benefits
• We offer opportunities for professional development
• Your compensation will consist of both a base salary and performance bonus
• Vacation entitlement starts at 20 days a year
• Not in Toronto? Not a problem. While most of the Rally team lives in the Toronto area, we appreciate there are many other wonderful towns and cities in this country. We have clients and partners across this country and are intentionally working to develop staff teams outside of Toronto

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Interested individuals should apply through our online application portal by October 6. Please indicate where you came across our posting. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview. No phone calls please.

Preparation tip: Cover letters are not needed but the application portal contains a question we'd like answered: Why are you interested in communicating about impact investing? In addition, we ask that you provide a sample of your communications work.

COMMITTED TO INCLUSION

Rally Assets Inc. is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion. We intentionally strive to have a workforce that mirrors the diverse demographics in this country. We encourage all applicants to apply regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or Indigenous status. Studies have shown that women, people of colour, people with disabilities and people from LGBTQ2S+ communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway, as you may be the ideal candidate we are looking for. If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know via Isarta. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.

ABOUT RALLY ASSETS

Rally Assets is an impact investment management firm. The firm helps investors generate positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Rally creates impact funds and other portfolios to enable foundations, other institutional investors, family offices and individual accredited investors to invest in alignment with their values. Through its joint venture in Realize Capital Partners, Rally is a fund-of-funds manager for the Government of Canada's Social Finance Fund. Rally is a Portfolio Manager and Exempt Market Dealer registered in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec with the respective provincial securities commissions. Rally is a certified B Corporation. Certified B Corporations meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose

Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000 a year plus bonus

Expected Start Date: November 2024

Application Deadline: Sunday October 6, 2024