Tourism Ambassador Summer Student

**Posted**:December 23, 2024

**Position Type**:Temporary, Full-Time

**Anticipated Contract Start/End Date**: May 5, 2025 to August 29, 2025

**Location**:Port Elgin, ON

**Vacancies**:2

**Hours**:35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

**Hourly Wage**:$21.20 to $22.20 per hour

**Saugeen Shores: Both city and town, wrapped in a village.**

Choosing to work and live in Saugeen Shores gives you an unparalleled choice of easy-going lifestyles, economic opportunities, and nature at every turn. You can truly create your own village in this growing, diverse community of neighborhoods and amenities. Replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides, and choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be. Make all these great choices without sacrificing family life, schools, and even access to the wide world. Nestled on the shores of Lake Huron with forests and farms all around, Saugeen Shores is the promise of both cities and towns, wrapped in a village.

**The Team**:
We take our team-first culture so seriously that we wrote a Team Saugeen Charter to celebrate and protect it. Our shared role is to keep Saugeen Shores safe, well-serviced, growing, and vibrant in ways that respect the public and reflect our members. We develop careers from the inside first, engage each other personally and professionally, welcome change, and embrace new ideas. We do more than live with work processes; we seek to continuously improve them. And we have each other's backs—because that is what great teams do.

**Join Us**:
**About the Role**:
The **Tourism**A**mbassador** will provide customer service and participate in marketing and communications, graphic design, some photography, telephone, website and social media work, and perform other duties as assigned. Students will assist all visitors and residents with travel and tourism inquiries.

**Responsibilities**:

- Represent the Town of Saugeen Shores at the Invest Saugeen Shores office and at community events.
- Support local organizations in the planning, coordination, and execution of events.
- Plan, promote, and deliver programs and events in specific area of focus for the Town.
- Create promotional and marketing material using multiple channels including poster/flyer design, social media content and in person discussion.
- Support in developing and executing communications for Southampton’s High Street Revitalisation project.
- Keep a pulse on all events, experiences, and activities in Saugeen Shores to ensure Explore the Shores website and social media is up to date.
- Develop and curate engaging content for the Town’s tourism social media platforms.
- Monitor website for accuracy and update the information provided by tourism stakeholders to capture the highest level of outbound links.
- Keep up to date on social media trends to identify the latest digital platforms.
- Create and publish engaging digital content pieces. Ensure all content is accurate and consistent and publish on online/digital platforms.
- Develop and write stories from our region to share on our social media channels, website, and e-newsletter.

**Education**:

- Enrolled in a diploma or degree at a post-secondary institution. Preferred program areas include (but is not limited to) marketing, communications, media studies, graphic design, and tourism.

**Experience and Knowledge**:

- Experience working in the digital space (website development/maintenance; social media channels, video production/editing, analytics).
- Experience in customer service in considered an asset.
- Valid G2 or G Driver's License.
- Proof of student enrolment must be provided to the employer.
- Students must be residents of Ontario during the period of employment.
- Students must be eligible to work in Canada.
- Students should be living in Ontario at the time they start work. This role is in-person and does not offer remote work options.

**Skills and competencies you bring to the role**:

- **Communication**:You have excellent written and verbal communication.
- **Interpersonal Skills**:You exhibit strong interpersonal skills that allow one to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
- **Leadership**:You are driven and highly motivated to lead others towards a common goal and proactively seek solutions that benefit all.
- **Resourcefulness**:You demonstrate a personal orientation toward action and accepting responsibility for the results. You have excellent time management skills and can work autonomously and seek out resources independently with limited direction.
- **Teamwork**:You are able to work with others toward a shared goal. You encourage and support your colleagues by offering for help and asking for help when needed.

**Application Process**:
The Town of Saugeen Shores is an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection processes and work environments. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, s