Position Title: Community Event Planner (1 Position, funding pending)
Work Hours: Daytime between 8:00 and 4:30pm
Term: 35 hours per week, April 23 to August 31 (some flexibility available)
Compensation: $13.50/hr

About this position:

The Community Event Planner lays the groundwork for LITE’s annual Wild Blueberry Breakfast, including engaging community organizations to provide catering and entertainment, identifying opportunities for volunteer engagement, and overseeing logistics (venue rental, ticket information) and working with the executive director to identify sponsorship prospects and possible activation opportunities. The Community Event Planner will work with LITE staff and the Community Engagement Developers to design a theme and ‘look’ for the Breakfast as well as support outreach to community partners to be involved in this annual celebration of removing barriers to employment.

Career mentoring and matching with professionals in student’s career of choice is a part of this position.

Qualifications:

• Basic writing skills and some experience with event planning with an interest in developing skills in this area.
• Creative, with an interest in event planning and community economic development as a career.
• Interest in how CED and a community of supporters can address barriers to employment.
• Interest in learning how barriers to employment occur at a systems level.
• Friendly with willingness to approach new people.
• Interest and some prior experience working with diverse groups or organizations.
• Ability to maintain records.
• Willingness to work in a small team, made up of both staff and volunteers.
• Must be a post-secondary student returning to post-secondary studies in September 2018.
• Must be resident of North End and/or Indigenous, Visible Minority or new Canadian. Please self-identify in cover letter.
• Students interested in careers in CED, human resource management or communications are encouraged to apply. Please indicate which area you hope to pursue in your cover letter.

PLEASE NOTE: This position is pending funding. Interviews / call-backs will only happen in event of grant funding. (Our fingers are crossed!)

Apply by Monday, April 16 with resume and cover letter to:

Tyler Pearce
Executive Director
203-765 Main Street, Wpg, MB R2W 3N5
Email: tyler at lite.mb.ca
Website: www.lite.mb.ca