Coordinator
Type: summer job / summer student position (Canada Summer Jobs)
Organization: Textbooks for Change
Location: Toronto/Etobicoke, Ontario
Start Date: Monday July 4, 2016
End Date: Friday August 27, 2016
Description of Business
Textbooks for Change (T4C) is a B Corp and start-up that provides
affordable and accessible educational materials to students both
locally and abroad.
We repurpose used textbooks to create social impact and improve the
educational landscape for students around the world. We do this by:
• Donating thousands of post-secondary textbooks to African
universities annually
• Selling affordable used textbooks to North American students and
using proceeds to help fund student-led impact initiatives
• Diverting thousands of textbooks from landfills by recycling them efficiently
Job Role
We’re a fast-growing social enterprise in need of a dynamic,
entrepreneurial, and hardworking individual to support us with
Business Development and Marketing.
Your role:
• Collaborate with the Business Development and Marketing teams to
support our growth and further our social impact
• Research new opportunities and develop pipelines for growth and
expansion (US community partners, student groups, and promotional
partners)
• Prospect and manage partnerships via lead qualification, cold
e-mails, and CRM tools
• Develop marketing content, campaigns, and initiatives that connect
post-secondary students with our social impact, purpose, and brand to
optimize our presence across campuses
• Represent Textbooks for Change at events and other engagements
You Have:
• Two or more years of post-secondary education
• Leadership experience at the post-secondary level (club, sports
team, sorority, etc.)
• Experience in the social impact space (non-profit/volunteer work,
fundraising, etc.)
• Balance: You know how to manage your time and prioritize what needs to be
done
• Confidence: You believe in yourself and the team around you
• A life: You have passions outside of work and contribute to your community
You are:
• Passionate for social change: Making a dent in the universe is
important to you
• Entrepreneurial: You know what it means to grind, and you will get
the job done no matter what comes in the way
• Fun: You are easy to get along with and have a positive attitude
• A fast learner: You are hungry to take on new projects to expand
your knowledge; You execute, make a mistake, learn, and iterate to
always be improving
• A great communicator: You know how to keep everyone in the loop and
get your message across clearly and concisely
• Respectful: You are a leader, but you know when to follow
• Focused and flexible: Sometimes you’ll work from the office,
sometimes from home, and sometimes on the fly; no matter where it is,
the job gets done
• A leader: You have experience leading a team through stressful
situations, achieving amazing results in the end
• Fast paced: You thrive in stressful situations and are able to
juggle multiple projects
What this job is not:
• Easy: This job will be the most challenging role you’ve ever had.
Working at a start-up is hard. Building a start-up while making a
major social impact is harder. This job will test you and in the end,
you will have one damn good story to tell
• Consistent: We expect you to find solutions, learn from mistakes,
implement processes, and move on to the next project
• Structured: Your day-to-day will change constantly adapting to the
company’s needs
We need you to:
• Think big: Execute in the moment, but always think ten steps ahead
• Innovate: Push both our social and business impact forward
To be eligible, students must:
• Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the start of the employment
• Have been registered as full-time students in the previous academic
year and intend to return to school on a full-time basis in the next
academic year
• Be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee
protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee
Protection Act; and,
• Be legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant
provincial or territorial legislation and regulations.
Textbooks for Change encourages all qualified applicants from diverse
backgrounds to apply.
Interested? Email your resume to:
amanda@textbooksforchange.ca
and complete the following survey:
