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: VCH COVID-19 Booster Clinic

    Starting September 19, 2022, a Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) COVID-19 booster clinic has opened at the UBC Life Sciences Centre. Please help share this information with your faculty/departments.

    Read more: New campaign: VCH COVID-19 Booster Clinic
  • Adam Grant: Why repeating yourself is a good thing

    Great communication is like a song. It isn’t enough to hear it once. You don’t know the melody until you hear it multiple times. You don’t know the chorus by heart until you’ve repeated it many times.

    Read more: Adam Grant: Why repeating yourself is a good thing
  • New Campaign: Are you prepared for an emergency?

    Safety & Risk Service’s Emergency Management team will be setting up a booth from September 6 to 8, 2022 to share information about personal emergency preparedness. We would like your help with promoting this event to increase our community’s resilience,…

    Read more: New Campaign: Are you prepared for an emergency?