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About CKUA
CKUA is recognized as Canada’s first public broadcaster, and it continues to inspire and guide a world-wide community of loyal arts and culture enthusiasts along a journey of musical discovery every day. CKUA offers more than 45 expertly curated multi-genre musical programs, plus other enriching arts and cultural content on-air and online. CKUA serves 380 communities across Alberta with FM Radio and reaches listeners around the world with live-streaming and digital content through CKUA.com, the CKUA App, and social platforms. We are an inclusive, creative, hardworking group on a musical mission to enrich lives and support the arts.

Marketing Coordinator (Graphic Design)
Location: Edmonton, AB | Hybrid | Full-Time| Union Position

About the Role
The Marketing Coordinator (Graphic Design) plays a central creative role within CKUA’s Marketing and Community Relations team. This position is responsible for bringing CKUA’s brand to life through high-quality graphic design and visual storytelling across digital, print, and on-air channels. The work is hands-on, design-led, and deeply connected to CKUA’s mission as a donor-supported, community-focused arts and culture organization.

The Marketing Coordinator (Graphic Design) strengthens CKUA’s in-house design capacity, and creates, adapts, and manages visual assets internally and ensures consistency, quality, and responsiveness across campaigns, programming, fundraising, and community initiatives.

Reporting to the Communications and Marketing Manager, this role collaborates closely with colleagues across Marketing, Content, Fund Development, and Events. It is well suited to someone who enjoys translating ideas into compelling visuals, working across multiple formats, and contributing creative expertise within a fast-moving and collaborative environment.

How you’ll make an impact
You will help shape how CKUA shows up visually across all touchpoints by creating strong, on-brand design assets that support programming, fundraising, events, and audience engagement. This includes graphic design for digital campaigns, social media, web, email, print materials, merchandise, swag, as well as on-air promotion.
A significant focus of this role is delivering high-quality design work internally. You will lead the creation and adaptation of visual assets, ensuring CKUA has the in-house capability to execute design needs efficiently, consistently, and creatively. Your work supports timely campaign delivery and strengthens CKUA’s visual identity so as to build in-house bench strength in this area.

You will collaborate with Marketing and Content colleagues to develop creative concepts and translate them into finished assets, ensuring visuals align with campaign goals, audience needs, and CKUA’s brand standards. This includes supporting fundraising and revenue-generating initiatives, such as the CKUA store, by creating materials that help engage, inform, and inspire audiences and donors.

You will also contribute to digital and social media execution by designing shareable graphics, short-form visual content, and campaign assets that support engagement across CKUA’s channels. Working alongside the broader team, you may support real-time content capture needs during events, campaigns, or special initiatives.

Your work helps ensure CKUA’s visual storytelling is consistent, thoughtful, and reflective of the organization’s values, strengthening connection with audiences and supporting long-term sustainability.

What You Bring
You bring strong graphic design skills and enjoy applying them across a range of formats, platforms, and timelines. You are comfortable taking ideas from concept through completion and take pride in producing polished, professional design work that meets both creative and practical needs, with collaborative and long-term technical compatibility in mind.

Equally important, you bring a grounded, community-centric approach to your work. You build trust easily, work well with a wide range of personalities, and contribute positively to team dynamics. Colleagues experience you as approachable, respectful, and constructive, someone who helps ideas move forward.

You communicate clearly and thoughtfully, balancing creative perspective with a natural openness to feedback. You are able to take direction, ask clarifying questions, and adapt your work based on input, while also offering ideas and solutions that strengthen the final outcome. Your presence helps create a working environment where collaboration feels productive and supportive.

You have demonstrated experience with graphic design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Experience with motion or video tools such as Premiere Pro, Final Cut, or similar is an asset. You are comfortable working within brand guidelines while also contributing creative ideas and visual solutions.

You have experience creating assets for digital and print use, including social media graphics, web visuals, email campaigns, promotional materials, and event or campaign collateral. Familiarity with platforms such as WordPress, Mailchimp, Canva, or social media scheduling tools is an asset, particularly as it relates to adapting design work for different channels.

You manage competing priorities with steadiness and care, remain solution-focused when timelines shift, and approach challenges with curiosity and collaboration. You understand that strong design work is both a technical skill and a relationship-based practice.

You build positive, respectful working relationships and approach your work in a way that reflects CKUA’s values of Community, Diversity, Inclusion, Creativity, Curiosity, and Authenticity. Your awareness of how visual communication and interpersonal dynamics impact diverse audiences and colleagues is reflected in both your design choices and how you show up day to day.

Your background may include work in graphic design, marketing, communications, digital media, or related creative roles. Formal education is welcome but not required. Relevant professional or lived experience that demonstrates strong design capability and collaborative practice is valued.

Additional Details
This is a full-time, unionized position with terms and conditions governed by the Collective Agreement between CKUA and IBEW Local 2228. This position is based at CKUA’s office in downtown Edmonton, located in the historic Alberta Hotel, with a hybrid working environment. Flexibility is important with some evening and weekend work that will occasionally be needed, especially during events or special initiatives.

The pay range for this position starts at $26.39 per hour, based on a 40-hour work week, and includes a comprehensive benefits package including pension plan. CKUA provides more than just a paycheque, and offers a creative, community-focused workplace where design and storytelling play a meaningful role in connecting audiences through music, arts, and culture.

How to Apply:
If you’re ready to support CKUA’s mission and help create community connections through music, arts, and culture, we’d love to hear from you.
Please apply online through ADP at ckua.com/careers. Please also provide a sampling of your work so we can get a sense of your style and approach!

We will begin reviewing applications right away and will continue until we meet the right candidate.

CKUA welcomes applications from all qualified individuals. We are particularly interested in and encourage applications from equity-seeking communities, including women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities/expressions.

CKUA is a donor-supported arts organization that inspires and connects through the power of music, arts, culture and story. With a focus on musical discovery, we showcase the best creative work from Alberta and beyond and deliver it on-air, online and in-person.

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Treaty 6 territory is the traditional gathering place for diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Blackfoot, Métis, Nakoda, Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway, Saulteaux/Anishinaabe and many others whose histories, languages and cultures continue to influence our vibrant community of Amiskwaciwaskahigan, also known as Edmonton. Treaty 7 is the traditional lands of the Blackfoot Confederacy which includes the Siksika, Kainai and Pikani, the Tsuut’ina and the Stoney Nakoda nations including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Wesley nations. We also recognize the Métis people and the Inuit who make their home in Mohkins’tsis, also known as Calgary.