Director of Communications

**SEIU HEALTHCARE CANADA** **Director of Communications** Permanent, full time | In office at Richmond Hill, Ontario | Application deadline: November 23rd, 2026. Applications received after this date will be reviewed on a rolling basis. **About SEIU Healthcare Canada** SEIU Healthcare Canada is the healthcare union that wins with and for its members. We are more than 70,000 frontline workers who care for people in hospitals, long-term care, retirement homes, and home and community care. We are change makers. We challenge a system that too often treats care workers as an afterthought, and we refuse to accept the status quo as the limit of what is possible. We are building a union around the member. That means bold, innovative action and milestones that open new ground for working people. It means relationships with employers, governments and allies that advance our members' priorities. It means growing our membership and developing the leaders and activists who carry this work forward, with the tools, training and education members need to shape decisions and take control of their future. Our values guide how we do it. Everyone is included, because diversity, equity and inclusion define who we are. We build authentic connection through honesty and transparency. We take courageous action and speak our truth, no matter what. We activate the power of our members. And we are stronger together, in a union where every person can thrive and make a meaningful impact. **Our Commitment to Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression** SEIU Healthcare is committed to advancing anti-racism and anti-oppression throughout the work of our union. We strive to identify and address systemic racism, discrimination, inequity, and other barriers affecting our members and their workplaces. Through member representation, education, workplace leadership, organizing, and collective action, we work to build the capacity of members and leaders to advance equity and create meaningful, lasting change in their workplaces, their union, and their communities. **The Role** We are creating a new senior role to bring the union's communications together. Reporting to the Executive Vice-President, the Director leads a creative team of eight, sets communications strategy, and partners with every department to reach members, the public, the media and government. We need a builder first. You will bring talented design, writing, digital, photo, video and web staff together as one accountable department with clear systems. You will also be a strategist with sharp political judgment, and a leader who holds everything the union publishes to a high standard. **Key Responsibilities** **Team Leadership and Systems** * Lead, manage and develop a team of design strategists, brand journalists, a new media specialist, a digital media strategist, a photographer and a web architect, and build a respectful, healthy team culture * Build one intake, approval and project management system for all commu