Elexicon Energy is the fourth-largest municipally owned electricity distributor in Ontario. Our mission is to provide our customers with reliable, affordable energy services and to continuously improve to meet their needs, while ensuring the needs of our shareholders are met through sustainable growth.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in journalism, policy, public affairs, political sciences, international relations, environmental, social, or media sciences is a plus.
• Experience in government relations. Experience in corporate communications and/or experience working at a level of government (provincial/municipal) would be an asset.
• Possesses strong interest in relationship building and communicating complex ideas in ways that build trust and drive action.

• Reporting to the Manager, Marketing, Communications and Public Affairs, this role will support the team with executing the stakeholder engagement strategy and analyze and monitor the implementation of national and provincial energy policies, regulations and laws.
• Synthesizes complex information into a wide range of written and visual communication products such as reviews of briefing notes, policy positions, presentations, backgrounders, whitepapers, microsites, research articles and other correspondence to support stakeholder relations initiatives.
• Maintain records of engagement and policy activities, including tracking action items arising.
• Build network of municipal and/or provincial contacts, as well as with industry associations, to ensure two-way communication, including technical advice on the implications of, and recommended response to, new and emerging policy/legislative/regulatory issues.
• Support Manager in the development and execution of advocacy and engagement related initiatives.
• Prepares and delivers presentations and represents Elexicon Energy at local, provincial, federal and international meetings and conferences.
• Support crisis communications planning and response for critical issues as well as major outage situations
• Draft content for news releases, internal memos, speeches, newsletters, web content, and social media posts as required