Oiaf Community Events Assistant

3 weeks ago


Ottawa, Canada Ottawa International Animation Festival Full time

**Contract Term**: Desired 26 Weeks

START DATE: June 5, 2023

End Date: 26 weeks

**Summary**: The Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF) is one of the leading events of its kind in the world. It’s an annual five-day event with a total attendance of 28,000 attracting artists, producers, students and animation fans from around the world. Do you love planning parties and events? This job is for you. Working with the OIAF team, you will plan major events for the Festival such as the Cartoon Network Animators Picnic for over 500 people.

Work Schedule: Full Time - 4 business days (32 hours per week)

**Office Location**:Arts Court, 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with OIAF staff to secure venues, workshop leaders, and handle logistics for the OIAF community outreach events.
- Determine volunteer and supply needs for each event and prepare.
- Write and gather material for the Youth Programming section of the website
- Liasie with educators and parents, arrange registration and field trip sign-ups
- Liaise with Festival partners and supporters to ensure the requirements for each event are met.
- In charge of volunteer team leaders and volunteers during each event.
- Coordinate schedule and speakers or workshop leaders for community programming space at Animation Exposé.

**Skills and Abilities**
- Excellent communication and people skills (verbal and written)
- Good organizational skills and initiative
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Eager to take on a leadership role
- Experience working in customer service is an asset
- Experience working with social media is an asset
- Strong computer skills: ability to quickly learn new programs/platforms and take initiative to troubleshoot
- **Eligible to participate in Ontario’s Job Creation Partnership (JCP) program** by meeting the following criteria:An unemployed job seeker or those employed less than 20 hours per week (part-time students and graduates may apply)

Live in Ontario
Legally authorized to work in Canada

Have one, or both, of the following criteria:Established an Employment Insurance (EI) benefit claim (regular or maternity/parental benefits ONLY))
Paid employee payroll premiums, i.e., employed in Canada, in five of any of the last ten years.

**Learning Opportunities and Additional Benefits**
- Learn and/or level up your proficiency with platforms like Eventive, Airtable, Canva, Quickbooks online, Google Suite.
- Get hands on experience running events from start to finish.
- Dedicated in-house seminars to learn about all aspects of event management.
- Meet people within the local, Canadian, and international film industry

**Remuneration**:
$620 (gross) per week for 32 hours ($19.275 average per hour) provided by the Province of Ontario.

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: $620.00 per week

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 2023-07-04



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