***Must be currently an Ontario Work and Child Tax Benefit recipient***
Sales and Marketing Assistant
Riverdale Immigrant Womens Centre (RIWC) is a charitable organisation with a mandate to serve South Asian and Chinese speaking immigrant women and their families by providing culturally appropriate and linguistically specific settlement support and counselling services with the use of community determined strategies, developed and delivered by immigrant women.
RIWC is seeking a Sales and Marketing Assistant who will be responsible for assisting the CED Coordinator and Community Animator in promoting RIWCs social purpose enterprises within the catchment community. This is a part-time position and RIWC encourages applications from diverse cultural backgrounds, visible minorities and people with disabilities and women.
Responsibilities:
Research new marketing opportunities in the community. Marketing opportunities include community resources, advertising venues, community events/campaigns, etc.
Identify potential customers and existing competition within the social enterprise development community.
Research and develop direct marketing lists for events and/or project promotional mail outs.
Support the CED Coordinator and Community Animator in creating awareness of RIWCs CED projects to increase enrolment of appropriate program participants.
Assist in the design and development marketing materials
Conduct follow up phone calls, meetings on all prospects
Support the CED Coordinator and Community Animator in maintaining a database of existing and potential social enterprise development initiatives in the city of Toronto.
Participate in all agency events to network with program staff and participants
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Post secondary degree/diploma in marketing or related field an asset
Must be currently an Ontario Work recipient
Must be current Child Tax Benefit recipient
Experience with graphic design and desktop publishing software
General understanding of Internet marketing and web development
Ability to effectively present information and communicate with groups, customers, clients, project participants and general public
Ability to maintain records and documentation
Computer literate (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Adobe suite)
Understanding of key anti poverty strategies within the city
Understanding and knowledge of barriers to access encountered by immigrant women within a feminist and anti-oppression analysis model
Excellent administrative, organizational and analytic skills
Ability to work both independently and within a team environment
This is a one-year contract position.
- Location: (Gerrard and Coxwell)
- Compensation: Competitive
- This is a part-time job.
- This is a contract job.
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