Ottawa Festival Network is seeking a Marketing/Media Assistant for the Ottawa Jazz Festival. This role involves developing and implementing media relationships and marketing strategies to promote the festival and its events.
Responsibilities
- Develop marketing and communication strategies for approval by the Executive & Artistic Director and Digital Media Manager
- Develop, execute and monitor the organization’s social media and digital strategies
- Assist in the design and execution of overall marketing initiatives
- Promote the festival event as a tourism destination
- Update media list and track media coverage
- Coordinate all public relations activities, foster ongoing communication with the media, pitch articles
- Assist in preparing a final report on the project and make recommendations for the next festival
- All other duties as assigned
Skills
- Have training or previous experience in marketing, public relations and/or special events
- College or University education required
- Be a team player
- Proficiency in English, French is an asset
- Possess strong written and verbal skills
- Able to meet deadlines and perform under pressure
- Be computer literate and familiar with social media marketing techniques
- Candidate eligibility for JCP is determined according to the following criteria: An unemployed job seeker or those employed less than 20 hours per week
- A permanent resident living in Ontario who is legally authorized to work in Canada
- Meet at least 1 of the following criteria: Has an established Employment Insurance (EI) benefit period
- Previously established an EI benefit period that has ended within the previous 60 months
- Paid employee EI premiums (e.g. Box 18 on the T4) in at least 3 of the last 10 years while earnings have been at least $2000 in each of those years
- Persons currently enrolled in full-time academic studies are not eligible for consideration
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