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 photos of UBC Treasury available on Flickr

    The VPFO Communications & Engagement team recently did a photoshoot for UBC Treasury working together in their newly renovated office in the Old Administration Building. Visit the VPFO Flickr to see the collection, as well as other photos of VPFO…

    Read more: New photos of UBC Treasury available on Flickr
  • New Campaign: Custodial Services in UBC Facilities is Hiring

    UBC Facilities is hiring up to 20 positions for Auxiliary Building Service Workers (6 months term) to join our Custodial Services team. Please help us share and advertise the job posting for Auxiliary Building Service Workers.

    Read more: New Campaign: Custodial Services in UBC Facilities is Hiring
  • Simple storytelling moments can help connects employees to their work

    The Harvard Business Review shares that brief storytelling, featuring concrete examples that reframe a moment by personifying human consequences, has been proven to help people see past the details of a task and greatly improve performance and engagement.

    Read more: Simple storytelling moments can help connects employees to their work