Senior Content Developer- Willowbridge Community Services
1 year contract
4-day work week
Duties
Willowbridge Community Services is a not-for-profit organization offering developmental services and counselling across Hamilton, Brantford, Niagara, and Haldimand Norfolk. We believe that everyone deserves relationships, community, and celebration. Our mission is to bring positive change to life in our community through services, supports, and counselling so no one is left behind.
Willowbridge is seeking a skilled, imaginative, and values-driven Content Developer to become the voice of an ambitious new provincial initiative: Safe Relationships and Your Rights (SRAYR). This one-year contract is a unique opportunity to join a collaborative team that’s reshaping what safety, education, and empowerment look like for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across Ontario.
SRAYR is a co-designed, gender-based violence prevention project rooted in the lived experiences of people with IDD. Backed by over 20 partner organizations, the project is being built in collaboration with an advisory group of people with lived experience, alongside researchers, clinicians, communications experts, and advocates. Together, we are creating tools—including a plain language textbook, training and prevention programs, and campaign content—to teach about consent, boundaries, anatomy, healthy relationships, and personal safety.
As Senior Content Developer, you’ll co-create every element of this work with the advisory group—ensuring that content is accessible, relevant, and grounded in real experiences. From long-form materials to scripts, guides, and public messaging, your writing will help support learning, connection, and lasting change.
This is a chance to contribute your voice to something that matters—on a project urgently needed in communities across Ontario.
How You’ll Contribute
- Lead writing for education, training, and prevention content: Write the core materials for SRAYR’s learning and prevention programs, including a plain language textbook, learning guides, video scripts, and training resources. Work within a co-design model that includes direct feedback from individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to ensure content is clear, relevant, and empowering. Collaborate with research teams from Wilfrid Laurier University and Nipissing University to integrate evidence-based learning strategies into every element.
- Help shape the voice of the SRAYR project: Develop consistent, inclusive messaging across written formats—from curriculum to campaign content. Ensure the language used throughout the project is respectful, trauma-informed, and rooted in the values of safety, rights, and self-advocacy.
- Collaborate with partners across disciplines: Work closely with researchers, clinical experts, illustrators, video producers, and communications consultants to bring written content to life. Support a fully collaborative co-design model that values multiple perspectives and centers the voices of people with lived experience.
- Support public-facing communications and brand alignment: Contribute to social media posts, ad copy, newsletters, and reports that help share SRAYR’s work with the public. Support the Communications Manager in maintaining a clear and consistent tone across platforms and audiences.
- Ensure quality, accessibility, and alignment at every stage: Revise content based on feedback from internal teams, advisory groups, and partners. Maintain high standards of clarity, inclusion, and accessibility throughout the content development process.
Qualifications
Help us shape something powerful, practical, and long overdue—because everyone deserves to learn, be safe, and be seen.
- Post-secondary education in writing, communications, publishing, education, or a related field
- At least 3 years of experience developing long-form content such as books, learning guides, training manuals, or video scripts
- Strong writing and editing skills across plain language, narrative, and instructional formats
- Experience writing for accessibility and inclusion, with knowledge of plain language, AODA, and trauma-informed communication
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex information into clear, engaging content for diverse audiences
- Familiarity with co-design processes and working in collaboration with people with lived experience
- Strong organizational skills and ability to manage timelines, revisions, and multi-stage workflows
- Proficiency with digital tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and shared editing platforms
- Comfort using Canva, Mailchimp, and basic social media publishing platforms
- A commitment to gender-based violence prevention, equity, and disability inclusion—and a passion for using writing to support safety, voice, and advocacy
- Experience in the non-profit, education, disability, or gender-based violence sectors is considered an asset
Eligibility
- Vulnerable Sector Screening Required
Willowbridge is committed to supporting a culture of diversity and inclusiveness across the organization and particularly encourages people of all ethnicities, genders, sexual/gender identities, cultural backgrounds, abilities, and beliefs to apply. Accommodation in the recruitment process will be provided upon request.
Benefits
- Become part of an innovative 4-day workweek (4DWW) and work 32 work hours a week with no salary reductions.
- Generous vacation package starting at 4.5 weeks paid (18 days pro-rated for 4DWW), all statutory holidays, and additional paid days for a week-long holiday office closure.
- Full Benefits package and an RRSP plan with employer matching up to 5%.
- 1.4 cumulative sick-days (pro-rated for 4DWW) accrued per month that build into a sick-day accrual bank.
- Flexible working hours that meet your needs.
- Hybrid work arrangements that include both remote and in-person service provisions.
- Funded professional development, training, and certification opportunities as available.
- A management team that advocates for the wellbeing of staff, clients, and the community.
- Opportunity to be a change-maker in a positive, collaborative workplace that values leadership, innovation, and creativity.
How to Apply
Please forward your cover letter & resume in one PDF document with your name in the title to careers@willowbridge.ca by 4:30 p.m. on or before May 9, 2025. Note, applications that are not submitted to the email above will not be considered.
If you would like assistance with your job search or in applying to this position, please contact SOAR Community Services at 519-756-76650 or employerservices@soarcs.ca and let us know how we can help!