The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) provides provincial and national leadership in public health through surveillance, detection, prevention and consultation and provides both direct diagnostic and treatment services to people with diseases of public health importance.

The BCCDC is an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), which plans, manages and evaluates selected specialty and province-wide health care services across BC. PHSA embodies values that reflect a commitment to excellence. These include: Patients first * Best value * Results matter * Improvements through knowledge * Open to possibilities.

Manager, Website Strategy and Information Management

BC Centre for Disease Control

This is a newly created dynamic role with a mandate to implement online objectives, ensure that BCCDC websites support strategic directions, and manage the implementation of on-line communications and information management goals. In collaboration with PHSA Web Strategies and PHSA Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT), you will be the first point of contact for leaders and managers seeking to create new website features and/or enhance existing website communications and strategy, as well as Agency information management initiatives. With BCCDC in the process of creating a new external website and revamping its internal website, this role demands your assessment and evaluation of external and internal stakeholder and user needs, as well as the dissemination of web and IT requirements and issues across the relevant technical teams. You are also responsible for training and on-going coaching and guidance of Agency web authors and editors, as well as Agency information management focal points.

You ideally have a degree in web-based communications and information management, plus five to seven years’ recent related experience, or the equivalent. Your proven track record in developing, launching and implementing successful websites and information management projects is complemented by leadership experience in managing committees and teams by facilitating consensus for a shared vision and outcomes. This role is ideally suited to a motivator and mentor who can educate colleagues and share knowledge effectively. Your strong writing and editing skills, expertise with web-based communications structures, and strategic understanding of how digital mediums can be used to complement and extend traditional communications channels, are all critical to your success in this role. Familiarity with models of website and information management governance, and their implementation and maintenance in a complex organizational environment is required together with experience using Content Management Systems, web analytics tools, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Web 2.0 tools. Our ideal candidate will have familiarity with, or a background in, public health with a mix of experience in the public and private sectors.

Online Media Buyer

Company Background
Our client is a young and thriving company with excellent career opportunities for driven individuals. We are an online marketing consulting firm working primarily with clients in the internet lead generations. DOM is an integral part of one of the most successful organizations in the Internet lead generation industry.

This fast growing, fast-paced internet marketing company is looking for an energetic, flexible and enthusiastic Online Media Buyer to lead and direct the media buying, planning and business development efforts for their online Acquisition program.

Your Role
The Online Media Buyer is responsible for establishing, negotiating and developing with agencies, ad networks, portals, vendors and operators. An individual in this position will identify and execute written agreements with cost-effective, scalable and targeted sources of media that can provide qualified and profitable traffic. The buyer will negotiate pricing and acquire inventory on a CPC, CPA and CPM basis for banners, email, pop-up and other direct response inventory, while ensuring that sources maintain the minimum acceptable ROI metrics/goals.

Responsibilities:
* Identify online media buying opportunities and negotiate tests to determine profitability of online campaigns.
* Negotiate, develop, monitor and manage delivery of booked campaigns on CPA, CPC and CPM models.
* Manage agency, ad network, portal, vendor and operator relationships.
* Manage day-to-day communication with advertising partners to ensure partners have necessary creative, tracking URLs, reporting, and other materials necessary to execute and optimize advertising campaigns.
* Keep track of performance metrics measuring the results of online advertising initiatives.
* Work with developers and designers regarding SEO-friendly on-site functions

Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have a minimum three (3) years experience buying interactive display ad units for direct response. Must have strong analytical skills and well-developed negotiation skills, plus a documented track-record of very profitable media buying. This role is ideal for someone who has industry contacts and experience with ad serving, ad servers or online campaign management tools. Fluent in English is a plus.

Company: Skilled Workers
Industry: Job Board
Job Title: Sales Representative
Department: Sales
Location: Vancouver - Downtown until March 31st, then moving to new office at Broadway and MacDonald for April 1st, 2008

The Skinny: This is an amazing opportunity for an energetic, hungry CONSULTATIVE sales person to get in at an early stage with a blossoming niche job board: skilledworkers.com. Great money, uncapped commissions, an amazing territory - a truly terrific opportunity with both short and long-term upside.

Market Position: Skilled Workers launched in 2005 as the destination for skilled workers to go to find the best job opportunities globally. After a lot of long hours and hard work from the current team, skilledworkers.com now boasts some of the world’s biggest companies as clients, including Chevron, Bowing and even NASA! They also have developed a strong Online Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy that ensures a high Google listing when skilled works search for roles online (this helps them generate job seekers to their clients’ roles). With the current global shortage of skilled workers, top companies are investing heavily in finding and attracting quality candidates to their projects: Skilled Workers is absolutely in a great position to capitalize!

What You’ll Do: Your role will be to hunt for and develop sales opportunities by calling on an assigned prospect and customer base. Your goal will be to generate $9,000 per month for the company (very reasonable expectation with a great opportunity to overachieve and cash in!)

The Culture: Fast, fast, fast. There is a real sense of growing something important at Skilled Workers. The team is both collaborative and competitive: everything a good sales organization should be. Skilled Workers expects a quality effort and happily rewards results. This is an amazing opportunity to develop a solid sales career.

What you need: > a proven track record of inside sales (telephone sales) success
> undeniable energy and enthusiasm

Technical
* Knowledgeable in XHTML/CSS; ability to hand-code and validate to standards- compliant markup
* Experience with web analytics and SEO - provide reports, ability to set goals and targets
* Some familiarity with PHP, Smarty and Javascript required
* Basic/intermediate knowledge of Adobe Photoshop required
* Flash experience desired, but not necessary
* Up-to-date with latest Web 2.0 mechanisms - RSS feeds, Jquery, etc.

Coordination
* Coordinate requests for new content and changes to existing content
* Create and update web pages, text, images and links to internal and external online resources
* Manage content in a web-based content management system
* Ensure content, branding and formatting are consistent and error free
* Work with 3rd party teams to ensure requirements are clear and deliverables are accurate, error-free and on time
* Manage web-related projects

Interactive Designer Job Description

Description:
MovieSet(tm) is looking for an awesome interactive designer who loves movies. You’ll be responsible for designing next generation web application user interfaces and multimedia content to support the company’s expanding marketing efforts. Periodically collateral and stationary design will also be required.

Requirements:
* Minimum 2 years graphic design experience
* Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, Graphic/Web Design, or User Interface Design
* Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite product line including:
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand
- Macromedia Flash
- Adobe InDesign
- Digital Video Production (Adobe Premier and After Effects)
* Experience with the following:
- Hand-coding HTML
- Macromedia Dreamweaver
- JavaScript
- Ajax
- Drupal
* Must have good communication skills and work well in a team environment
* Must be detail- and solution-oriented and self-motivated
* Understanding of browser compatibility issues, W3C standards, accessibility guidelines, and optimization techniques
* SEO skills a plus
* Basic familiarity with print collateral design and production
* Must be able to manage multiple projects at once and have the flexibility to change focus quickly as projects require

The SEO Analyst will be responsible for search engine optimization of campaigns. The primary responsibilities will include performing keyword analysis, analyze data and track SEO results.

Primary Responsibilities:
1. Create and monitor search engine marketing campaigns.
2. Provide consistent communication with customers concerning improving traffic flow, conversion and reporting status of campaigns.
3. Keyword research to identify customers most targeted and relevant keywords.
4. Coordinate with the Website artists to ensure websites are constructed for the best possible combination of SEO and content.
5. Ability to make recommendations for improving search engine placement.
6. Monitor and study ongoing changes to search engine marketing industry.
7. Research, learn and apply the latest SEO techniques.
8. Apply experience and insight into new products and a wide variety of campaigns.
9. Monitor, test and analyze results to improve click/impressions ratios.

- Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills
- Strong understanding of search engine optimization (SEO) strategies
- Experience with bid management tools
- A working knowledge of HTML
- Critical thinking and problems solving skills
- Experience in creating search engine friendly websites

This company is a leading direct-response company in the beauty and skin-care industry located in beautiful Harbourside North Vancouver. Their customers are located throughout Canada, with a client base continuously growing. This position assists the Marketing & Operations departments with web-design projects, including but not limited to email campaigns and direct response landing pages. As well as in the monitoring and maintenance of search-engine-driven campaigns.

We are looking for someone with creativity who possesses design talent as well as coding knowledge to develop web pages using the latest industry technologies as well as managing SEO and PPC-type campaigns based on the standards in place and set by the marketing department.

Required Skills:
-Adobe Photoshop
-Adobe / Macromedia Dreamweaver
-Hands-on HTML coding
-ASP / .NET Programming
-SEO Knowledge
-S SQL Maintenance / Scripting

Asset Skills:
-Adobe / Macromedia Flash
-JavaScript & PHP
-Crystal Reports
-Adobe Illustrator / InDesign
-Macintosh Computer Knowledge
-MS IIS / Windows 2003 Maintenance

General Skills:
-IT Hardware and Software Maitenance
-General IT Trouble-shooting skills
-Good communicative / writing skills
-Quick-Leaner