Executive Assistant

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Toronto, ON, CAN
In-Office
Senior level
Digital Media • News + Entertainment
The Role
Provides high-level administrative and organizational support to senior Global News and Corus Audio executives. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, meeting coordination, travel arrangements, executive communications, presentations, expense processing, deadline tracking, stakeholder coordination, and confidential information handling. The role requires strong judgment, discretion, adaptability, organization, and professionalism in a fast-paced media environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Corus Entertainment, we’re shaping the future of media in Canada—home to the country’s biggest hits, most trusted news, and greatest value. Our mission is simple: to create engaging content, connect with audiences wherever they are, and drive meaningful growth.
 
Guided by our values—Think Boldly, Make a Positive Impact, Win as a Team, and Own the Outcome—we bring creativity and collaboration to everything we do.
 
If you’re ready to make an impact, there’s a place for you at Corus.

 

Division: Global News
Work Status: Full-Time
Location: Barber Greene - Toronto, ON (Onsite)

 

About the Role

Global News is looking for a highly organized, proactive, and experienced Executive Assistant to provide high-level administrative

and organizational support to the Senior Vice President of Global News and Corus Audio, as well as, News management at Barber Greene. 

 

As a trusted partner to the VP, you will play an important role in keeping priorities, schedules, communications, meetings, and key initiatives moving forward.

Working in a fast-paced and dynamic news environment, you will interact with senior leaders, internal teams, and external stakeholders across the organization.

 

The successful candidate brings exceptional organizational skills, sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion, along with the ability to anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and remain agile as schedules and business needs evolve.

 

You Will Contribute By:

 

Executive & Administrative Support

 

  • Providing comprehensive day-to-day administrative and organizational support to the Senior Vice President of Global News and Corus Audio, as well as, News management at the Barber Greene office. 
  • Managing a complex calendar, coordinating meetings, and proactively balancing competing priorities and shifting schedules.
  • Coordinating meeting logistics, agendas, presentations, briefing materials, and other supporting documentation.
  • Preparing correspondence, reports, presentations, and executive communications.
  • Coordinating travel arrangements, itineraries, accommodations, and related logistics.
  • Preparing and processing expense reports, invoices, and other administrative documentation.
  • Tracking key meetings, commitments, deadlines, and follow-up items to help ensure priorities move forward.
  • Supporting leadership meetings, special projects, events, and department initiatives as required.
  • Acting as a key point of contact for internal and external stakeholders and helping facilitate effective communication across teams.
  • Handling confidential and sensitive information with a high degree of professionalism, discretion, and judgment.
  • Partnering with teams across Global News and Corus to support administrative processes and evolving business priorities.

 

Skills & Experience You Will Bring:

 

  • Post-secondary education in business administration, communications, media, or a related field is preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Demonstrated experience providing executive-level administrative support to a senior leader or leadership team, ideally in a fast-paced and complex organization.
  • 5+ years of progressive executive administration or senior administrative support experience preferred.
  • Experience supporting senior executives and managing complex calendars, meetings, travel, and competing priorities.
  • Experience within media, news, broadcasting, communications, or a similarly fast-paced environment is considered an asset.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams.
  • Exceptional organizational and time-management skills with strong attention to detail.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills, with the confidence and professionalism to work effectively with senior leaders and colleagues across the organization.
  • Excellent judgment and demonstrated ability to anticipate needs, solve problems, and work independently.
  • Ability to remain composed and adaptable when priorities or schedules change quickly.
  • A high level of professionalism, discretion, and integrity when handling confidential or sensitive information.

 

Application Deadline: November 18, 2026

 

 

 

Every day, we work hard to become an even more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that supports the well-being of our people and makes a positive difference in our communities. Want to learn more? Have a look at our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan and Sustainability Report for more information on our approach to People, Planet and Responsibility.

 

We want our workforce to reflect the full diversity of communities across Canada.

We are committed to providing an accessible experience for candidates of all abilities.  Please let your recruiter or the hiring manager know if you require any adjustments throughout the recruitment process or email us in confidence at [email protected].

 

How to Apply:
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We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, please.

 

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated experience providing executive-level administrative support to a senior leader or leadership team
  • Experience supporting senior executives and managing complex calendars, meetings, travel, and competing priorities
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams
  • Exceptional organizational and time-management skills with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills
  • Excellent judgment and ability to anticipate needs, solve problems, and work independently
  • Ability to remain composed and adaptable when priorities or schedules change quickly
  • Professionalism, discretion, and integrity when handling confidential or sensitive information
  • Post-secondary education in business administration, communications, media, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience
  • 5+ years of progressive executive administration or senior administrative support experience
  • Experience within media, news, broadcasting, communications, or a similarly fast-paced environment
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The Company
HQ: Toronto, Ontario
3,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1999

What We Do

Corus is Canada’s leading pure play media and content company, developing and delivering high-quality content and brands across platforms for audiences around the world. Engaging audiences since 1999, the company’s portfolio of multimedia offerings encompass 35 specialty television services, 39 radio stations, 15 conventional television stations, a suite of digital assets, animation software, technology and media services. Corus’ roster of premium brands includes Global Television, W Network, HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, HISTORY®, Showcase, Adult Swim, National Geographic, Disney Channel Canada, YTV, Global News, Globalnews.ca, Q107, Country 105, and CFOX. Corus is an established creator of globally distributed content through Nelvana animation studio, Corus Studios, and children’s book publishing house Kids Can Press. Nelvana is a world-leading international producer and distributor of children’s animated and live-action content with a stable of globally renowned brands that focus on comedies, preschool and boys action series and ancillary consumer products programs. Established in 2015, Corus Studios is a premium content studio that develops, produces and distributes a wide array of original lifestyle, unscripted and factual content globally. Toon Boom Animation’s award-winning software is the global standard for 2D animation and storyboarding providing the artistic freedom to create in any style and efficiently publish anywhere. Kids Can Press is the largest Canadian-owned children’s publisher with a catalog of over 700 picture books, nonfiction and fiction titles for children and young adults. Corus also owns innovative full-service social digital agency so.da, and in 2019, extended its reach to millennials through new and ongoing partnerships with Complex and Twitter, expansion into short-form content with so.da originals and the acquisition of Kin.

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