Director, Corporate Communications

NATIONAL•Toronto, ON

6d•CA$103,500 - CA$115,000•Hybrid

About The Position

At NATIONAL, we are driven by purpose, creativity, and connection. For 50 years, our teams across Canada have helped organizations navigate change, build trust, and shape conversations that matter. As one of Canada's largest independent communications consultancies, we partner with leading public and private organizations to solve complex business challenges through strategic communications, corporate affairs, capital markets expertise, and creative thinking. Our Toronto team is looking for a senior communications leader with a strong background in financial communications, capital markets, and investor relations. This role is a good fit for someone who enjoys advising senior clients, making complicated business issues easier to understand, and working in a collaborative, fast-paced consulting environment. If you are a trusted advisor who likes solving complex challenges, building lasting client relationships, and helping grow a dynamic practice, we would like to hear from you. This is a hands-on senior advisory opportunity for someone who wants to be both strategic and practical, commercially minded and collaborative, and comfortable advising clients when the stakes are high. As Director, Corporate Communications, you will provide senior strategic counsel to executives, boards of directors, and investor relations teams. You will lead complex client mandates across corporate and financial communications, investor relations, capital markets initiatives, reputation management, crisis files, transaction communications, disclosure support, and special situations. You will also play an important role in growing our practice. That means identifying and leading new business opportunities, expanding existing client relationships, mentoring colleagues, and connecting clients with the right expertise from across NATIONAL's practices and offices.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in financial and corporate communications, capital markets, investor relations, strategic communications, or a consulting or corporate advisory environment.
Demonstrated experience providing strategic counsel to senior executives and leading complex communications or capital markets mandates, including crisis files.
Exceptional writing, presentation, and strategic communications skills, with the ability to develop compelling messaging across multiple channels.
Proven experience leading client relationships, managing budgets, and delivering complex projects in a fast-paced consulting environment.
A strong understanding of capital markets, financial communications, and the evolving media and digital landscape.
A bachelor's degree in Communications, Business, Finance, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related discipline.
Comfort using AI-enabled tools, for example, ChatGPT.

Nice To Haves

Experience advising publicly traded companies, investor relations teams or capital market participants is considered an asset.
Familiarity with the Canadian capital markets landscape is also an asset.
Bilingualism in English and French.

Responsibilities

Provide senior strategic counsel to executives, boards of directors, and investor relations teams.
Lead complex client mandates across corporate and financial communications, investor relations, capital markets initiatives, reputation management, crisis files, transaction communications, disclosure support, and special situations.
Identify and lead new business opportunities.
Expand existing client relationships.
Mentor colleagues.
Connect clients with the right expertise from across NATIONAL's practices and offices.
Help clients communicate clearly in moments that matter to their business, their investors, their employees, their regulators, and other important stakeholders.
Bring sound judgment, strong business instincts, and a clear understanding of how markets, media, investors, disclosure, and reputation intersect.
Lead complex client mandates from planning through execution, making sure the work is thoughtful, high quality, delivered on time, and managed on budget.
Build strong, enduring client relationships.
Identify opportunities to expand existing mandates.
Lead new business opportunities that contribute to the growth of the Firm.
Manage project planning, financial management, and resource allocation so that client objectives are met and the work runs smoothly.
Collaborate with colleagues across NATIONAL's practices and offices to deliver integrated communications solutions that meet evolving client needs.
Mentor, coach, and develop team members, helping foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
Stay close to capital markets trends, regulatory developments, and emerging communications practices so that your counsel is current, practical, and grounded in the realities of the market.
Help strengthen NATIONAL's presence in the Canadian capital markets and financial communications community.