Volunteer Toronto ,Digital Storytelling Facilitator and Coordinator Job in Canada

Position Title:
Digital Storytelling Facilitator and Coordinator

Duration:
7 months (Temporary, Full-time)

Salary:
$3,500 per month

Reporting to:
Director of Co

mmunity Engagement

Location:
Volunteer Toronto, 344 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3A7

Volunteer Toronto is a charity that promotes and celebrates volunteering in
Toronto. We connect people to volunteer opportunities across the city and
provide volunteer management training and guidance to non-profits. Our Digital
Storytelling project aims to tell the stories of Toronto’s volunteers through
Digital Storytelling, a way of telling one’s personal story by combining a
recorded first-person narrative with images (still or moving), and music or other
sounds.

The Digital Media Facilitator will take the project to the next stage by
training non-profit professionals to teach Digital Storytelling to their
volunteers to provide a way of sharing their personal stories. We’re looking
for someone who is a quick learner, has extensive video production experience
as well as the ability to facilitate media creation/storytelling workshops to
beginners.

The responsibilities will include:

§  Planning and teaching workshops on
Digital Storytelling Facilitation to non-profit professionals;
§  Overseeing workshops where newly
trained facilitators teach volunteers how to create their own digital stories;
§  Creating a Digital Story Facilitator
kit which will include training plans, a written guide and other resources;
§  Working with high school students to
create digital stories and connecting with local schools to showcase them;
§  Organizing a reflective session for
past attendees of the facilitator workshops to discuss how they’ve used their
Digital Storytelling skills;
§  Working with the Marketing and Communications Manager to
promote Digital Storytelling through local radio stations and local TV
stations, and organizing the creation and implementation of a marketing
campaign to promote the digital stories.

Required Skills
and Experience:
§  Experience and knowledge of video
production (including audio recording) and ability to use Final Cut Pro and
Adobe Premiere Pro
§  Experience composing stories
§  Experience facilitating or teaching
large groups
§  Experience writing training guides
§  Graphic design skills and experience
using Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator

The role will start in late November/early December and will run through until
the end of June 2015.

Volunteer Toronto values the diversity of all people regardless of sexual
orientation, race, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, religion, gender, age or
disability.

Applications
will be reviewed as received; interviews will begin for qualified candidates as
soon as possible, and the position may be filled before the closing date. Only
candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

To apply, please send a cover letter, your resume, a sample video piece, and a
writing sample to digitalstorytelling@volunteertoronto.ca by Friday
November 7th at
5pm. 

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