Moon Festival Volunteer Coordinator

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Still Moon Arts Society Full time

**About us**

Still Moon Arts Society (Still Moon) inspires vibrant and connected communities by facilitating artistic experiences and nurturing a passion for nature. They do so through their eco-arts and environmental stewardship programming, and founding festival, the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival.

**Moon Festival**

The Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival is a free month-long community arts and sustainability festival celebrating the full moon, harvest abundance, and diverse cultural traditions in the Renfrew Collingwood Neighborhood of East Vancouver in September. It is committed to being a festival for everyone rooted in community collaboration, knowledge, and sharing.

**The Role**

The Moon Festival Volunteer Coordinator supports the Moon Festival Production Manager with volunteer recruitment, logistics and execution of the 21st Annual Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival. The role is best suited for someone who enjoys connecting with people, is excellent at juggling a variety of responsibilities, and is highly organized. The Volunteer Coordinator is responsible for recruiting, training, supporting, and inspiring community members in the neighbourhood to fulfil specific volunteer roles for the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival. The Volunteer Coordinator acts in an organizational and mentorship role to ensure the Moon Festival has enough support in all the right places to be a successful and inspiring neighbourhood festival.

**Responsibilities**

General
- Support Still Moon’s Moon Festival Production Manager (PM) in logistics, production, and festival staff support
- Support set up, take down and running festival events
- Perform miscellaneous errands and duties as needed
- Take meeting minutes as required

Volunteers
- Work with the Production Manager to develop a volunteer recruitment strategy
- Responsible for communicating, orienting, and shifting placements
- Administer school visits, volunteer orientations and plan volunteer appreciation
- Create a volunteer info package and work with the PM to develop t-shirt and food plans
- Create survey to solicit feedback from volunteers and site managers, for evaluation and learning

Special Projects
- Support with the implementation and execution of new projects and events

Outreach
- Support with community partner listings
- Develop community outreach engagement strategy with PM
- Implement and execute in-person and online information sharing sessions about Still Moon and the Festival
- Time permitting, assist with strategy and outreach for individual donations and/or corporate sponsorship

Logistics
- Coordinate equipment rentals
- Organize and take inventory of event and festival materials
- Track volunteer statistics as required by funders

**Qualifications**
- Experience with festival and/or community event planning
- Experience managing and recruiting volunteers
- Experience with coordination; organizing and scheduling, using spreadsheets, liaising between parties, delegating tasks
- Friendly, outgoing, and assertive communicator; likes sharing information, ideas and stories, is comfortable giving instructions and delegating tasks; experience in customer service, an asset
- Excellent organizational skills, including time management and prioritization
- Proficient in G-Suite (Google Drive, GoogleSheets, GoogleDocs); experience with Asana an asset
- Interest in arts, community development and environment
- Able to work independently and take initiative
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to varying work environments
- Drivers licence and/or access to a car an asset
- Second language (especially Cantonese, Mandarin or Tagalog), an asset
- Personal computer and phone required
- Be available for the full month of August and September

This position is funded by Canada Summer Jobs. To be eligible, youth must:

- be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for the duration of the employment**; and,
- have a valid Social Insurance Number at the start of employment and be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations

**Job Details**

**Salary**: $ 18 - 19 / hour

**Start Date**: June 26th

**End Date**:October 13th (16 weeks total)

**Schedule**: The total hours worked during the contract will be 480, averaging 30 hours/wk. Hours worked per week may vary slightly from week to week depending on festival programming needs.

**Location**: Hybrid. Renfrew-Collingwood Community, Vancouver

**Reports to**:Moon Festival Production Manager

Please submit your resume and cover letter by March 3rd to **karen AT stillmoonarts.ca**.
- This position is pending confirmation of funding.**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 16 weeks

**Salary**: $18.00-$19.00 per hour

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Work Location:

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