Assist the Executive Director to promote, sell and run the festival at a variety of different venues in East Toronto. Responsibilities include working with the Executive Director and lead volunteers to:
- Promote and Run Festival Concerts,
- Organize and Run a Silent Auction at one concert
- Write Applications and Reports to Sponsors, Foundations and Granting Bodies and steward these relationships
- Promote and Run School Workshop Day (May 25, 2018) (already 50% sold)
- Promote and Run Public Workshop Day (May 26, 2018) (already 50% sold)
- Create and Post Social Media Postings
- Sell Ads in the Festival Program
- Recruit, Schedule, Plan Orientation and Thank You Events, and Supervise Volunteers
- Stewardship and Writing Reports and Applications to Sponsors, Foundations and Granting Bodies
- Evaluation of SING! 2018 and Advance Planning of SING! 2019
- Comfortable approaching people by phone, email or in person to request support for the Festival
- Research skills to assist in determining potential donors/buyers
- Familiarity with posting on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and/or other Social Media
- Experience using Word, Excel, and Power Point or equivalent software
- Fundraising or sales experience is an asset
- Experience using Google Drive Docs, Sheets and Slides is an asset
- Experience using Hootsuite or MailChimp is an asset
- Experience volunteering at or participating in an arts festival is an asset
Part-Time - 15 hours/week
Contract, January-June 2018 (with possibility for renewal)
SING! is Canada’s premier a cappella festival (singing without instruments) held every year in May/June. Now in its seventh season, the festival brings together thousands of professional singers (Canadian and international), students, teachers, divas, and in-the-shower belters to celebrate the beauty of the voice. SING! strives to:
- create a safe space for learning
- illustrate that the voice has no limits – knows no constraints of genre, language or cultural background.
- ask participants to step outside their comfort zones and try something new
- educate and inspire todays’ youth
- foster a new and revitalized patronage for the vocal arts
SING! offers four types of programming: SING! Concerts (traditional concert-hall, ticketed events), SING! Education (workshops for schools and professional development for singers), SING! Free (two weekends of a cappella performances outdoors in the Distillery District) and SING! Plus (mixing a cappella singing with other arts disciplines)
Send resume with cover letter to Lynn McGuigan, Executive Director, SING! to: executivedirector@singtoronto.com