Organization: Planet in Focus
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Application Deadline: Friday, June 10, 2011
Position Start Date: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 and complete Friday, August 19, 2011. There will be one day of work on Saturday August 5, 2011.
Location: The position will work out of the Planet in Focus office from July 5-August 5 (Distillery District, King Street East/Parliament Street) and Brookview Middle School from August 8-19 (Jane Street at Finch).
Job description:
Planet in Focus is offering an opportunity for students returning to school in September to join our team for seven weeks this summer. The successful applicant will hone and develop their marketing, outreach and communication skills supporting Planet in Focus’s youth video production program Youth Camera Action! (YCA) and audience development initiatives for the annual film festival.
Now in its 11th year, Youth, Camera, Action! (YCA) is a two-week environmentally themed program for young people ages 13-18 years of age that takes place Monday, August 8th — Friday, August 19th at Brookview Middle School in Toronto (Jane-Finch community). For youth participants, YCA is an opportunity to learn about the environment, acquire valuable video-making skills, make new friends and create a short environmental-themed video.
The films are then screened as part of the Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto and at select national and international locations.
This Youth Coordinator will be primarily responsible for:
• Assisting the Executive Director and the Head Instructor to run the Youth Camera Action! program
• Develop promotional materials, letters, contracts, receipts for the program
• Research promotional outreach, provide outreach to schools, community centres, and youth programs to recruit participants
• Liaise with partnering organizations and participants leading up to the program
• Provide logistical and administrative support for the program
• Seek sponsors and other supporters
Applicants should possess the following skills:
• Knowledge of film and/or video production
• Interest and/or experience working with youth
• Experience establishing strong group-dynamics and meaningful relationships in a short time frame
• Interest and/or experience with working with equity seeking groups
• Interest in the environment
• Strong communicator and problem solver
• Ability to work with diverse groups and ability levels in a media arts environment
• Ability to support and create a safe and inclusive environment
• Demonstrated cultural competence and experience working with a diversity of communities/cultures
• Organized, outgoing and highly motivated
• Other duties as assigned by the Head Instructor and / or the Executive Director
Eligible candidates must pass a vulnerable people screening procedure, which may include a police background check.
Availability:
The job will be 7 hours per day for 7 weeks. The applicants must provide own transportation to and from the locations.
To apply, mail, fax or e-mail a resume and cover letter by 5 pm on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 to:
Mail: Youth Coordinator c/o Planet in Focus
The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Case Goods Warehouse,
Building 74, Studio 402, Toronto, ON, M5A 3C4, Canada
Fax: 416.531.8985
E-mail: jobs@planetinfocus.org
Planet in Focus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We thank all applicants, but only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.
Planet in Focus is Canada’s leading environmental non-profit media arts organization. This position is made possible through the Canada Summer Jobs Program funded by HRSDC (Human Resources Development Canada).
Planet in Focus gratefully acknowledge the support of our sustaining partners Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Toronto Arts Council as well as the support for YCA shown by the City of Toronto Culture Division. Thank you to our community supporters Charles Street Video, TELUS, Anonymous Donor, Jane-Finch Green Jobs Coalition and Green Change. For more information, please call 416-531-1769 or visit our website at http://www.planetinfocus.org .
