Responsibilities

• Define and direct an integrated PR and communications strategy that strengthens brand reputation, supports business objectives, and scales effectively across markets, disciplines, and regions. Establish priorities, success metrics, and governance to ensure consistency and impact.
• Partner with executive and senior leadership to shape and align leadership communications, including thought leadership, firmwide messaging, and change management. Serve as a trusted advisor on narrative, tone, and positioning to support leadership visibility and organizational alignment.
• Provide strategic direction for how PR and communications leverage digital platforms and emerging channels. Partner with the Digital Marketing team to align messaging with broader campaigns, use audience insights to inform channel strategy, integrate multimedia storytelling including video, audio, and interactive formats.
• Serve as the firm’s senior communications strategist, responsible for shaping and protecting the narratives that define Colliers Engineering & Design’s work, values, and impact. Develop storytelling frameworks and messaging standards that translate complex technical expertise into clear, compelling narratives, ensuring consistency, differentiation, and credibility across disciplines, markets, and audiences.
• Set the strategy and standards for firmwide internal communications that build alignment, trust, and engagement. Guide messaging related to growth, change, and strategic priorities, ensuring clarity and consistency across leadership and regions.
• Set media strategy and priorities, directing outreach that elevates the firm’s visibility in priority markets and disciplines. Cultivate senior-level media relationships and guide the team’s proactive and responsive engagement.
• Lead communication strategy during sensitive or highvisibility situations, partnering with executive leadership to ensure timely, credible, and consistent messaging.
• Lead and develop a distributed PR and communications team, setting clear expectations, priorities, and standards of excellence. Create the structure, workflows, and coaching culture needed to deliver consistent, high-quality communications at scale.
• Manage and mentor a mid-size growing team of corporate and regional PR and communications professionals.
• Guide workload prioritization, project planning, and coaching to ensure timely and highquality delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or related field.
• Experience operating in a large, distributed organization where communications must scale across regions, disciplines, and leadership levels.
• 15+ years of experience in public relations, corporate communications, or marketing communications including experience developing national strategies and managing distributed teams. Proven ability to lead through influence and drive measurable results at scale. Ideally within the AEC or professional services industry.
• Demonstrate effective organizational and prioritization skills.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and within deadlines.
• Strong work ethic and commitment to a high level of quality and accountability.
• Display professionalism in handling sensitive and confidential information.
• Proven track record of building high-performing teams and delivering measurable PR results.
• Strong understanding of technical subject matter and the ability to distill complex information into clear, audience-appropriate messaging.
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with technical leaders and aligning communications strategies with business objectives.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills across various formats.
• Skilled at managing complex projects, competing priorities, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Media savvy, with a sharp understanding of today’s communications landscape.
• Strategic thinker with a proactive, solutions-driven mindset.
• Ability to read, write and understand English for purposes of comprehending written job-related communications and verbal instructions and interactions.

Preferred

• Preferred to have an on-site presence at one of our East Coast-based offices, with the opportunity for a flexible hybrid work arrangement.