Fall 2025 - Student Opportunities in Communications (Marketing, Internal or External communications), or Web Design (HTML front-end coding)

Salary:  $23.27-$37.77

Closing date: 2025-01-22

Reference number: RF-12653

About CSE

The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

Student positions at CSE are unlike most others. We offer both practical and developmental work experience and allow students to be part of meaningful, exciting, projects, with the hope that they will want to join us full-time following their studies.

CSE is committed to fostering a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion. This isn’t just an ideal, it’s crucial to our mission. Find out about our workplace culture, including our diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Become part of our team and you’ll understand why CSE is the most important organization you’ve never heard of.

Job summary

Communications (includes Strategic Communications, Marketing, Advertising, Social Media, Public Affairs and Media Relations)

Our Communications students have a hand in developing corporate messaging and visual identities for internal and external audiences, develop content for our social media channels and our websites, get a view on the world of advertising, build their skills in working with partners, help create memorable events for CSE, and assist in running a national public awareness campaign.

As a Communications student you could be:

• Researching, writing, and editing material for publication internally or externally
• Assisting communications officers in the implementation of communications campaigns and events.
• Providing support to the implementation and promotion of the History Program.
• Reviewing existing communications tools and designs and making recommendations to enhance client satisfaction based on available data.
• Researching and drafting social media content and developing strategies to reach wider audiences.
• Assisting in media relations work with senior colleagues
• Providing media monitoring support.
• Working collaboratively with communications colleagues in creative services, web design and translation.

 

Web Design

The Web Design team is looking for support in the design and coding of web content for our three external websites and our internal employee intranet.

Interested students should be able to:

• Take part in the design and creation of layouts for web pages such as events, announcements, advisories, and blog posts.
• Code web content in HTML/HTML5 and CSS.
• Provide technical and strategic advice related to websites.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the bootstrap framework or the Web Experience Toolkit (WET).
• Demonstrate knowledge of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).

 

Salary

To find out more about our student salary scale visit the Compensation page on our website.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens.

 

Location

The majority of our jobs are in Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Learn more about where we work.

 

Conditions of employment

A valid Enhanced Reliability Status (ERS) or an Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

For more information about our hiring process, visit our hiring process and security page on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

You must be registered as a full-time student in a recognized post-secondary program in a field related to the position, such as (but not limited to) communications, public affairs and media relations, marketing, advertising, or web design.

 

Note: The educational program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide a transcript from your most recent term. Students graduating prior to, or during, the work term are not eligible to apply.

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application. 

Technical competencies

Technical competencies will vary depending on the job family you select upon application submission.

Behavioural competencies

·        Cognitive thinking skills

·        Service

Leadership competencies

·        Achieving results

·        Collaboration

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at students-etudiants@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this selection process.

Important information

The process will be conducted in the official language of your choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to the following designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups. 

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.