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currently hiring: marketing coordinator

Dancemakers is looking for a part-time Marketing Coordinator to join our team! This role will work in close collaboration with Interim Artistic Producer, Christina de la Cruz. The Dancemakers team also includes a part time bookkeeper and a volunteer board of directors comprised of dance artists and arts workers.

Dancemakers currently has multi-year operating funding (confirmed until 2026) and is also on annual operating granting cycles. This position’s contract will be renewed yearly based on funding results.

As the role develops, if additional hours, responsibilities and/or tasks are required, Dancemakers is prepared to adjust the contract to account for shifts in scope. This role’s intention is to incrementally adapt and grow based on the needs and capacity of what is required within a healthy and sustainable working environment. In addition, if a job-share is of interest, please indicate that in your cover letter.

Information about the role

  • Salary: $14,560.00 (annual contract renewed yearly) + basic health & dental benefits

    • $560 bi-weekly (before taxes and deductions)

  • Flexible work schedule - 8 hours a week, including brief weekly meetings and longer monthly meetings

  • Remote

Accessibility/Equity

Dancemakers is supportive of caregivers as well as those living with visible and/or invisible disabilities. We strive to support a flexible work-week that accommodates artistic practice, health, remote work, caregiving responsibilities and other needs and/or obligations.

If you require any accessibility support with this application and/or support that would help you in this role, please reach out to Christina de la Cruz at artistic@dancemakers.org.

We highly encourage applicants who identify as Indigenous, Black, people of colour and/or those living with disabilities to apply as well as candidates with experience with a range of dance forms. You can self-identify with as much or as little information as you feel comfortable with in your cover letter.

We recognize that experience can be difficult to attain because of historical exclusion and lack of access within the field and we want to work with candidates to identify needs for professional development and/or training that would be required. Please indicate in your letter if there are elements in the role that you would like skill development assistance and/or professional development opportunities.

Skills and Experience considered:

  • Knowledge and experience working in any form of dance within the current Canadian context

  • Commitment to anti-oppression, anti-racist, and anti-ableist practices

  • Commitment to community-led processes and practices

  • Ability to work independently as well as in close collaboration with Dancemakers’ Artistic Producer

  • Experience working with (or a willingness to learn) Wordpress/SquareSpace*, Microsoft Excel and Outlook, Canada Helps, SquareUp, Mailchimp and social media platforms (mostly Instagram with possibility to explore other platforms)

  • Experience designing in Canva and/or Adobe Suite*

Goals & Expectations

  • Creating and disseminating public communication through Mailchimp, social media campaigns and maintaining our website using brand guides*

  • Creating and disseminating other forms of marketing and advertising such as paid advertisements (online and/or in print)

  • Working with partners on shared marketing, ticketing and audience development

  • Ensuring that online accessibility standards are met for all online communications

  • Creating marketing campaigns that are artistically-minded and representational of the work being supported through aesthetic, language and tone

*Dancemakers is currently engaging in a re-design process to create a new website with CoEffect to which the role of Marketing Manager will be actively involved with.

To apply:

Please send a resume, cover letter and examples of marketing experience (such as social accounts you have managed or contributed to) to artistic@dancemakers.org by Sunday January 14, 2024.

In your cover letter, please outline your experience, why you would like to work in this role at Dancemakers and how you are committed to intersectional justice within dance practices.

Timeline of Hiring Process:

Applications are due by Sunday January 14th, 2024.

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee during the week of January 15-January 22 2024 with invitations for interviews sent by Wednesday January 24, 2024.

Interviews will be held in person or online during the week of January 29-February 2 with the intention to offer the role to the successful candidate the week of February 9.

The first day of work is to be decided in collaboration with the selected candidate (late February 2024). Dancemakers’ fiscal year runs from August 1-July 31 annually.

Declination letters to unsuccessful candidates will be sent once the selected candidate has been confirmed.

PLEASE NOTE: This intended schedule may need to shift slightly if accommodations or other needs are required.

Image from the archives: Lara Kramer with collaborators
[Image Description: Four dancers lie strewn across a studio floor, two of their faces obscured by hair, one blindfolded. Posed in gestures of rest, one with their head on the other’s shoulder, one with their head on the other’s stomach.]