Gow Hastings Architects

Senior Proposal and Marketing Specialist

Position:Permanent, Full-Time

Location:Toronto, ON (On-Site)

We have an immediate opening for a Senior Proposal and Marketing Specialist to join our Toronto-based, award-winning architecture and interior design studio. We’re on the lookout for a skilled and resourceful individual to play an integral role in sustaining Gow Hastings’ practice and advancing its growth, with the ability to work effortlessly across strategic planning, new business pursuits, proposals, and media outreach.

About Us

Gow Hastings Architects is a Toronto-based design studio creating vibrant places for learning and discovery. Our work reimagines how these spaces can look, feel and function and make a meaningful difference to their users.

Our studio specialises in the design of buildings and spaces for education in the broadest sense of the word — anywhere people gather to engage with culture, knowledge and ideas. Through a deliberate embrace of the overlooked and the underestimated, for us no space has been too minor to matter, and no task too complex to complete. We have delivered over 500 projects, both small and large: from single classrooms to entire campuses; laboratory benches to research towers; culinary schools to skilled trades facilities; student centres to youth hubs; and Indigenous teaching lodges to outdoor learning experiences, among others. Working with light, colour and sustainable materials in creative ways, our interventions are thoughtfully designed to better help students and teachers to achieve their goals, researchers and innovators to do amazing work, the curious young and old to explore new worlds or diverse communities to come together on common ground.

We provide full multidisciplinary design consulting services, integrating architecture, interior design, sustainable and accessible design with functional programming, spatial planning, user engagement, visual communication and environmental graphic design. Clients include communities, municipalities, school boards, colleges and universities, public agencies as well as private organisations. We particularly excel at helping during times of change that call for renewal and imaginative rethinking of what is possible, especially when budgets are tight and timelines even tighter. Our team of architects and designers approach every project asking, how can we make a meaningful difference?

Visit us at https://www.gowhastings.com/ and on social media @gowhastings to learn more.

Key Responsibilities

Working collaboratively with the Partners, the specialist is responsible for:

• RFP/RFQ pursuits from start to finish;
• Business procurement to support Gow Hastings’ short- and long-term business goals, including tracking business leads, identifying new market and business opportunities;
• Written content for proposals, awards, and media outreach;
• Client, consultant, and collaborator relations;
• Press and media communications
• Working collaboratively with the Creative Director, and in consultation with the Partners, the specialist will provide additional support to ensure brand strength and alignment across multiple channels and all touch points: A wide range of graphic communications assignments, including proposals, presentations, awards submissions, publications, and marketing collateral, in print, digital, and/or web;
• Website maintenance and social media engagement;
• Projects’ visual documentation;
• Photography coordination and image database management

Required Skills and Experience

Minimum Qualifications include:

• Degree in Architecture, Design, Communications, Writing or Journalism;
• Minimum 6 years of experience working in a design services or AEC environment;
• Creative and self-motivated individual with superior organizational skills;
• Excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Highly developed business acumen;
• Flexibility to work independently or as a team;
• Nimbleness and ability to balance multiple deadlines against competing priorities;
• Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud and MS Office;
• Advanced graphic skills are an asset

Salary Range $70,000 - 90,000 commensurate with experience

Why Join Gow Hastings Architects?

The role is open to discussion to best fit an applicant’s experience, abilities, and career goals; an excellent opportunity with a competitive salary and benefits. Fun, friendly people; summer hours; Friday drinks; and lots of birthday cakes are some of the highlights of our open work culture. The view of the city from our perch near Casa Loma is pretty amazing too!

How to Apply

Please submit your PDF application to careers@gowhastings.com with the subject line: Senior Proposal and Marketing Specialist. Include a cover letter outlining how you envision your role/contribution. Salary negotiable based on level of experience.

We thank all applicants for their interest. Please note, however, that only those selected for interview will be contacted.

Last Updated Date: 2026/Aug/14