Position Title:
Volunteer Coordinator
Organization:
The Indian Summer Festival is a multi-arts festival for global souls. Every July, for 10 days,
Indian Summer hosts dozens of free and ticketed events throughout Downtown
Vancouver, featuring music, dance, literature, cuisine, visual arts, film and more! ISAS is
a charitable, not-for-profit, arts organization with a vision for an inclusive, diverse, and
culturally-rich society. To achieve this, we commission and present significant local,
national, and international programming that reflects Vancouver’s position as a harbour
for diverse arts, ideas, cultures and traditions. Now in its 5th year, Indian Summer has
distinguished itself as a rare and necessary arts festival where worlds meet. The Indian
Summer Festival runs July 9-18, 2015.
Description:
Are you a highly organized and enthusiastic social butterfly? Do you love animating a
group of people to achieve a large, common goal? If so, ISF's Volunteer Coordinator
position is for you!
Responsibilities:
• Recruit and retain past and future volunteers
• Develop and implement an electronic database system that tracks volunteers,
and records skills, performance, and availability
• Work with festival team to develop a comprehensive volunteer needs assessment
for festival activities
• Develop a volunteer manual for internal use that provides information and
guidelines for festival team
• Develop a volunteer manual for volunteer use that provides festival and
organizational information, scheduling procedures, and helpful hints
• Schedules volunteers into shift work for company activities, based on
organizational priorities
• Lead volunteer training sessions manage volunteer services during the festival
• Find volunteers for special organizational assignments
• Organize volunteer benefits and a post-festival volunteer appreciation party
• Prepare a Final Report detailing activities and recommendations with respect to
the volunteer program
Qualifications:
• Strong leadership and project management skills
• Friendly, respectful and professional detail-oriented
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Fluent in English
• Passionate about arts and culture in Vancouver
Dates:
May-Aug (4 month part time)
Organization contact:
Indian Summer Festival
Laura Byspalko, Managing Director
Deadline to apply:
Send applications to Chelsea Hunter, Internship coordinator, by no later than April 1,
2015, 4:00pm.