Summer Associate (Contract)

Job Responsibility:

The business

When businesses or organizations have a pressing challenge, McMillan Vantage has the senior expertise with a deep understanding of what you need to know, when you need it most. Our vision is to become the firm of choice for clients requiring government relations, strategic communications, public policy, brand strategy, and campaign services. McMillan Vantage is unique in Canada thanks to our strategic partnership with one of Canada's leading national business law firms—McMillan LLP. Learn more here.

The role

The Summer Associate is a full-time contract role beginning June 2, 2025. The contract term is 14 weeks, but there is some flexibility to shorten or extend the contract. It is a paid full-time role (40 hours/week).

The successful candidate has likely been involved in campaigns at different levels of government, student government, influencing, and/or actively involved in grassroots community organizations. Given this is an entry-level role, our ambition is for the candidate to seek new experiences, knowledge, and feedback with an openness to learning and change. Our hope is that the successful individual is looking to build a career in government relations, public affairs, or communications consulting.

McMillan Vantage will provide you with training that will expose you to client service, but it is critical that this individual is a self-starter.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Developing excellent first drafts of materials such as PowerPoints, key messages, briefing or issues notes, key messages, and social media content under the direction of more senior consultants
• Monitoring of applicable federal and provincial press conferences, government announcements, funding programs, and question period debates
• Track news, political trends, and key issues relevant to clients
• Assist in identifying and mapping key decision makers, influencers and stakeholders on key issues
• Providing account support such as organizing meetings, producing call summaries and creating project schedules / to do lists
• Learning about new sectors and issues in support of McMillan Vantage new business development

The qualifications and competencies

• A recent graduate of a post-secondary institution with a degree in political science, history, public policy, or a related field. However, we welcome applicants who are enrolled in or are graduating from a Master's program
• Proven experience working independently with strong time and project management skills
• Excellent verbal, writing, and editing skills in English (French is an asset)
• Interest in learning on your feet and continuously improving
• Share in our commitment to advancing The Vantage Way and producing the highest quality of work for our clients
• Understanding of content marketing tools is an asset but not required

The details

Please apply by submitting a resume and thoughtfully answering the Application Questions below. Note that we can tell when you have used AI to answer the questions.

We thank all applicants in advance. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.