PolicyJobs OTT #9
Welcome to this week’s edition of PolicyJobsOTT. We asked His Royal Highness to personally deliver this week’s policy jobs newsletter but it looks like he was unavailable.👑🤷♂️
read, listen, watch
Lose yourself🎤🎶🔥
In the music: Lose yourself, composed exclusively from movie clips, somehow amazing 📽️📽️📽️
The moment: Get yourself so lost you have to get rescued from Mt. Fuji a second time (because you went back for your phone) 🗻🗻🗻
You own it: PPF report you may have missed on local ownership and local news 📰📰📰
Build baby build 🏗️🔨
Charlie Angus gives a lesson on drywalling 📚
How Madrid built its metro more cheaply than we do here🚇
New Zealand housing policy and how policy ideas travel across borders🏘️
the jobs
1. Vice President, Federal Government Relations — Canadian Bankers Association (CBA)
The CBA is hiring a Vice President to lead federal advocacy and shape public policy affecting Canada’s banking sector. This role builds relationships with federal officials, oversees engagement strategies, and coordinates input from member banks. Responsibilities include monitoring legislation, advising on policy, managing advocacy events, and contributing to budget submissions. Requirements include 10+ years in government relations, strong policy expertise, and fluency in both official languages. 🏦📜🤝
2. Government Relations Associate — Blackbird Strategies
This role at Blackbird Strategies supports government relations and policy work across sectors like health, justice, environment, and economic development. The Government Relations Associate will monitor political developments, conduct research, prepare briefing materials, and help coordinate advocacy strategies. The position plays a hands-on role in supporting a range of clients —including a particular focus on Indigenous governments and organizations— as they engage with public institutions and advance their priorities. 🗂️🏛️🌿
3. Parliamentary Affairs Advisor – Office of the Honourable Senator Réjean Aucoin — The Senate of Canada
The Parliamentary Affairs Advisor role supports Senator Réjean Aucoin’s legislative and policy work, with a focus on bilingual justice, minority language rights, and equity. Responsibilities include conducting policy research, drafting speeches and communications, monitoring Senate activity, and advising on strategic engagement. The position also involves representing the office at events and building relationships with key stakeholders. Fluency in French is essential; bilingualism is required. 📝🤝🏛️
4. Research Officer / Agente ou agent de recherche — Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE)
CAPE is seeking a bilingual Research Officer to support collective bargaining, labour policy, and member campaigns. Reporting to the Director of Negotiations and Research, the officer will design and conduct research, analyze employment and labour trends, draft proposals and reports, and provide expert advice on legislation and labour relations. The role includes survey design, data analysis, and preparing materials for committees and external stakeholders. It may also involve representing CAPE at inter-union or employer meetings. 🧠📊🤝
5. Research Associate — Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) is hiring a bilingual Research Associate to support two key projects: industrial policy and community transformations related to climate change and global trade. Working with research directors and staff, the role involves organizing and synthesizing research, data analysis, creating visuals, writing background documents and policy briefs, and assisting with external engagement and event planning. This position is a one-year contract with possibility of renewal. 📊📚🌍
Eds: This posting says “hybrid workplace based in Montreal” but it also says “remote work arrangements are negotiable” —so we’ll leave you to figure it out.
6. Associate Director of Canada Government Relations — ONE
ONE is a global, nonpartisan organization fighting for a more just world by demanding the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa. The Associate Director of Canada Government Relations will lead ONE’s government relations work in Canada and will be responsible for designing and delivering strategies to ensure ONE achieves impact through its policy analysis and engagement on our key policy issues. They will work closely with North America team to design and lead integrated change strategies and help identify trends and issues regarding international development, and global health to develop innovative actions and leverage Canadian government efforts to maximise ONE’s impact. 🌍💸🩺
7. Senior Policy Analyst - Languages & Learning — The Assembly of First Nations
The Senior Policy Analyst - Languages & Learning will conduct research and analysis, and provide recommendations for policy development, interpretation, and application for the inclusion of First Nations Languages and Learning. They will gather and analyze statistical information, assess existing research, and write reports on findings and conclusions with high complexity requiring expertise knowledge. Based on their research and analysis, they will makes recommendations in the development of policies. ✍🔠📊
8. Director, Public Affairs — The Alzheimer Society
The Director, Public Affairs drives The Alzheimer Society’s federal public affairs strategy in close collaboration with Federation (provincial) partners, prioritizing trust-building, partnership, and consistent information-sharing. Focused exclusively on federal issues and national priorities, the Director develops consistent national messaging adaptable for provincial and local contexts. This role supports all national government relations and advocacy strategies, including national campaigns, federal elections, budgets and funding opportunities, Ministerial mandates, and federal agency agendas aligned with ASC leadership priorities. 🧠🧠🧠
9. Senior Specialist, Policy Analysis — CMHC
CMHC’s Policy Results and Operations team is seeking a Senior Specialist, Policy Analysis. In this role, the successful candidate will provide strategic and expert advice on policy development in support of fundamental decisions that shape future directions. They will articulate policy positions, provide strategic expert advice and recommendations, and develop substantive materials for senior management and the Minister to influence decision making. 🏘️🏗️🗣️