Overview
Languages
English
Student status
- Bachelor's degree
- Full time enrollment
- Part time enrollment
Work setting
- Associations and non profit organizations
- Social service or charity agency
- Advertising, marketing and public relations agency
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Promote conference and meeting services or special events
- Inspect and select sites
- Develop media strategies and public relations activities
- Develop sponsorship, partnership or fundraising programs
- Solicit event donors
- Review bids and negotiate costs
- Assist in budget preparation
- Co-ordinate media services
- Co-ordinate set-ups, staging, seating, parking, communication systems and other details for special events
- Confirm and co-ordinate speakers
- Implement social programs, food and beverage, transportation, and other services
- Plan schedules, goals and objectives
- Develop registration systems and information materials
- Plan for required documentation and for pre- and post-distribution of documentation (itineraries, evaluations etc.)
- Research and design special events programs
- Plan for social events and guest programs
- Manage Event Logistics
- Plan and oversee Webinars
- Advise clients on advertising or sales promotion strategies
- Supervise office and volunteer staff
- Perform administrative tasks
- Maintain and manage digital database
- Answer written and oral inquiries
- Conduct analytical marketing studies
- Design market research questionnaires
- Prepare funding applications
- Develop and organize workshops, meetings, ceremonies and other events for publicity, fundraising and information purposes
- Develop, implement and evaluate communication strategies and programs
- Prepare and/or deliver educational, publicity and information programs, materials and sessions
- Gather, research and prepare communications material
- Co-ordinate special publicity events and promotions
- Conduct online marketing, E-commerce and Website promotions
- Develop portfolio of marketing materials
- Write and edit press releases, newsletter and communications materials
- Assist in the preparation of brochures, reports, newsletters and other material
- Prepare sports, literary, performance or other contracts
Supervision
- Working groups
- Committees
Experience and specialization
Target audience
- Children
- Persons with a disability
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS Office
- MS Word
- Spreadsheet
- Electronic mail
Area of work experience
- Community service organization
Experience with special needs children
- Children with a physical disability
Area of specialization
- Project management
- Interactive/new media
- Communications
- Audio/audio-visual
- Fundraising
Additional information
Security and safety
- Criminal record check
- Child Abuse Registry check
Transportation/travel information
- Travel expenses paid by employer
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
Own tools/equipment
- Cellular phone
- Computer
- Internet access
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Organized
- Team player
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Ability to multitask
- Integrity
- Time management
Benefits
Financial benefits
- Mileage paid