Welcome to VPFO Communications & Engagement

Everyone in the VPFO has a part in telling the story of how finance, facilities, and safety enable UBC’s teaching, learning and research.

Here you will find information, resources, and tools to do your part to strengthen your communications and achieve our business goals.

Plan

Plan your communications to focus your objectives, refine your messages and identify your audiences.

Produce

Take advantage of our resources to create outstanding communications that align with our vision and values.

Publish

Discover the channels at UBC to make sure your message is reaching the right audiences, in the right way, at the right time.

Learn

Explore what makes good communications, find resources to improve, and see where we’re at and where we’re going.

2024-27 VPFO Strategic Communications Plan

The VPFO’s strategic Communications Plan provides a moving 3-year planning window for Communications & Engagement across the VPFO, supporting the Vice-President Finance & Operations’ (VPFO) Strategic Plan, in alignment with the UBC Strategic Plan.

News & Announcements

  • New campaign: Safety Awareness Week is September 18-22

    September 18-22, 2023 is Safety Awareness Week. We would like your help with promoting Safety Awareness Week to maintain a safe and secure campus for our university community.

    Read more: New campaign: Safety Awareness Week is September 18-22
  • New Campaign: Are you prepared for an emergency?

    Safety & Risk Services’ Emergency Management team will be setting up a booth from September 5 to 7, 2023, for Ready Week to share information about personal emergency preparedness. We would like your help with promoting this event to increase…

    Read more: New Campaign: Are you prepared for an emergency?
  • New tool: VPFO communications, engagement and change matrix

    The VPFO communications, engagement and change matrix is a tool for assessing engagement goals, change readiness, influence, impact, and risk across high-level internal stakeholder groups of the VPFO.

    Read more: New tool: VPFO communications, engagement and change matrix