Leading up to, and during, the Indian Summer Festival in July 2013, this contract position is for a 4-month period (April 1- July 26) comprising a 30-hour work week.
Responsibilities will include:
- Managing and maintaining festival database (Zoho)
- managing sponsorship packages and requests
- Coordinating ticket and membership requests
- Liaising with publicists and festival managing director
- Website ongoing maintenance (Wordpress)
- Social media content developing, creating, monitoring and posting (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr)
- Creation/dissemination of regular e-newsletter (Mailchimp)
- performer coordination and services
- some event management
- daily bookkeeping (working with festival accountant and managing direction)
Candidates must possess the following skills:
- Exceptional organisational skills and strong multi-tasking skills a MUST, including project management experience
- Detail oriented a MUST
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Must be able to work under pressure in a fast paced environment
- Must be very web savvy
- Strong Microsoft Office skills
- Basic understanding of HTML.
