Events and Marketing Coordinator

As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country.

Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all. That's why Nelson continuously strives to create dynamic curriculum-aligned content that caters to diverse learning styles, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and life-long learning.

In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem. Edwin is a learning platform for classroom success, providing curriculum-linked content, engaging tools and unparalleled support to reach every student.

Nelson is redefining education and making a positive impact on the way knowledge is acquired and shared by creating the possible, one learner at a time.

About the Role

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Integrated Digital Marketing, the Events and Marketing Coordinator will support the planning and execution of Nelson’s events, webinars, campaigns, and marketing activities.

In this role, you will help coordinate event logistics, support email and campaign setup, update marketing materials, and keep projects moving across the team. You’ll work closely with Marketing, Sales, Product Marketing, Classroom Success, and Marketing Operations to support both in-person and virtual events, campaign execution, collateral coordination, and day-to-day marketing administration.

This role is ideal for someone who is organized, detail-oriented, comfortable learning new tools, and excited to build experience across events, campaigns, and marketing operations.

Requirements

Key Accountabilities

• Support planning and coordination for in-person events, conferences, webinars, customer sessions, and internal meetings.

• Help manage event details including registration lists, calendars, speaker information, shipping, signage, materials, and follow-up tasks.

• Assist with webinar setup, including registration pages, confirmation emails, reminder emails, attendee lists, and post-event follow-up.

• Support email and campaign execution, including building, testing, proofing, scheduling, and list coordination.

• Help update marketing materials such as one-pagers, event handouts, Sales resources, presentations, and campaign assets.

• Coordinate print and digital material requests for events, campaigns, Sales, and customer-facing teams.

• Help manage promotional materials, inventory, shipping, and event supplies.

• Maintain organized files, project trackers, event checklists, timelines, and campaign documentation.

• Support basic reporting by pulling registration, attendance, email, and campaign performance information as needed.

• Assist with project updates in Jira or other project management tools.

• Coordinate with internal teams and vendors to gather information, assets, links, approvals, and deadlines.

• Provide general administrative and coordination support for marketing initiatives across the team.

Requirements

• College diploma or university degree in marketing, communications, business, events, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 1–2 years of experience in marketing, events, communications, administration, customer service, or a related role.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Comfortable managing multiple tasks and deadlines.

• Willingness to learn marketing tools, systems, and processes.

• Comfortable working with spreadsheets, email, calendars, and shared documents.

• Experience with tools such as Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, Canva, Salesforce, Pardot, Jira, or similar platforms is considered an asset.

• Experience supporting events, webinars, school activities, volunteer programs, clubs, or customer-facing work is considered an asset.

• Positive attitude, curiosity, and willingness to jump in where needed.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Willingness to support occasional event setup, travel, or off-site event coordination as required.

Benefits

Compensation

The base salary range for this position starts at $53,000 per annum based on experience. Compensation is part of our broader Total Rewards package, which includes benefits and programs that support employee well-being and growth.

What We Offer

At Nelson, we believe in taking care of our people.

Your well-being, growth, and work-life balance matter to us, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you—professionally and personally.

Health & Wellness

• Flexible and customizable health, dental, and paramedical plans for employees and their families
• Health Spending Account (HSA) for medical, hospital, or dental costs not covered by insurance
• Personal Spending Account (PSA) for wellness expenses, including fitness and health related products
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing confidential support spanning from mental health services to financial counselling, and many things in-between

Financial & Professional Wellbeing

• Pension plan with company matching contributions
• Registered Retirement Pension Plan to help secure your future
• Annual educational reimbursement for professional development
• Access to LinkedIn Learning for continuous skill growth

Flexibility & Time Off

• Hybrid work model with remote and in-office options
• Flexible work hours (divisional dependent)
• Generous paid time off policies, including vacation time, sick leave, parental leave top-up, personal days, and more
• Annual paid volunteer day to support causes you care about
• Holiday closure from Christmas to New Year’s
• Summer Fridays

Don’t have 100% of the above qualifications? Do you still think Nelson is a great fit for you? We encourage you to apply anyway!

Our EDI Statement

Nelson teaches the world by learning from everyone in it.

We are committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace environment. This is an integral part of our company’s culture and mission that aligns with our four key pillars of Employee Diversity, Developing Authentic and Accurate Content, Amplifying External Voices, and Supporting the Local Community and Beyond.

We believe in the power of education and our ability to impact social change. Truth, honesty, integrity, and respect guide our decisions and actions in the development of learning solutions that empower success for all educators and learners.

We value a respectful, inclusive, and safe workplace that nurtures belonging and represents many different cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and opinions. Everyone is free to be who they are.

We foster and continue to build relationships that are equitable, diverse, and inclusive with existing and future partners in education.

We commit to holding ourselves accountable by creating measurable short and long-term goals that place equity, diversity, and inclusion at the core of what we do in our resources, the workplace, the educational community, and in the larger society.

We strive to build an inclusive world for everyone. We are stronger together.

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Nelson uses AI support tools in our applicant tracking system to help with tasks such as summarizing points and anonymizing applications. All candidate screening, assessments, and hiring decisions are done by people.

Interview Outcome Notification

Nelson is committed to keeping candidates informed. All candidates who attend an interview for a publicly advertised role will be notified of the outcome of their candidacy. Candidates will be notified of the hiring decision no later than 45 days after the last interview.

Our Commitment

Nelson is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Inclusion, Equity and Diversity. As part of this commitment, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, sex, gender, gender identity, colour, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, veteran status, or disability status.

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